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Two men who allegedly took turns sexually violating a 13-year-old girl whom they were supposed to protect are now in prison awaiting trial.The men, who are both in their late 30s and are close relatives of the teenager,Cheap Jerseys From China, were charged separately for sexually assaulting her on separate occasions.The incidents allegedly occurred at the home the child shared with her mother and other relatives at Melanie Damishana.One of the men,Wholesale Jerseys Online, who happens to be her stepfather,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, was placed on $600,NFL Jerseys Supply,000 when he appeared before an East Coast Demerara Magistrate on May 20 last, charged with rape.Kaieteur News understands that he is still to post the bail.He was joined in prison by the teenager’s brother-in-law who was remanded when he too faced a Magistrate at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court on a similar charge.According to reports, the child, whose mother works in the interior,Wholesale Jerseys, was left in the care of her sister and brother in law earlier this year.It is alleged that her brother in law bought her a cellular phone,China Jerseys Cheap, which he used as an inducement to have sex with her. This according to the prosecution went on for a while without anyone’s knowledge until the teenager’s stepfather arrived from the interior.The police are alleging that the stepfather observed the teenager’s brother in law making sexual advances towards her and he threatened to reveal this to the child’s mother.He reportedly used the threat to seduce the child.But this time the child could no longer keep it in and she confided to a friend, who in turn told her aunt.The matter was subsequently reported to the police who arrested both men.After an intense investigation, they were both placed before the court.

Guyana will be one of the first countries in the English speaking Caribbean to conduct a demographic health survey (DHS).At a press conference held at his office on Saturday, Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy told reporters that the DHS will commence in March and will last for three months.He explained that the only country in CARICOM that has ever done a DHS is Haiti, which received assistance from the United States to do such.Outside of Haiti, the Dominican Republic would be the only other country that has done a DHS; and according to Minister Ramsammy, in this respect, it is a significant achievement for Guyana.The DHS will be done every five years, and is aimed at assessing the health status of children and men, as well as the maternal health status of women. It is also aimed at assessing the knowledge and risk behaviour of the population.Dr Leslie RamsammyThere will be three separate questionnaires which will be used in 6,600 households in 330 enumeration districts. The questionnaires will look for different characteristics of each? household, such as list of members, survivorship and residency of biological patients, school attendance, use of building materials, mosquito net use, support for sick persons and orphans, and measurement of height and hemoglobin — to check for anemia.Women and men between the ages of 15 and 49 in those households will complete separate individual questionnaires.Household salt will also be checked to ascertain the level of available iodine, which Dr. Ramsammy said is a nutrient necessary for good health.According to Minister Ramsammy, the individual questionnaire for women will source data on personal characteristics.This questionnaire will collect data on reproductive health, contraceptives,Cheap Jerseys, pregnancy and post-natal care, child immunization, nutrition of women and all their children, marriage and sexual activities, husband/partner characteristics, women’s work, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS and other health issues, such as TB, drug abuse,Cheap Jerseys From China, alcohol and tobacco use.Additionally, the individual male questionnaire will capture data on reproduction and sexuality, contraception, marriage, employment and gender roles, HIV/AIDS and other health issues, such as TB, circumcision, alcohol abuse,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, violence and accidents, smoking and health insurance.The Ministry of Health will be the lead agency, and, through a Technical Advisory Committee chaired by the Chief Medical Officer,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Dr.Shamdeo Persaud, will monitor the implementation of the survey and report to the Minister of Health.“The training that we receive during this first DHS will allow us to do more of these types of surveys in the future,Cheap World Cup Jerseys, and I am asking the citizens of Guyana to cooperate in March, April and May, as the surveyors come,” Minister Ramsammy said.It was explained that the National Bureau of Statistics will be the implementing agency for the DHS, and will also be responsible for operational matters related to the survey, including planning, conduct of fieldwork, processing of collected data, and dissemination of results.Dr. Ramsammy assured that all the data collected will be under strict confidentiality,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and the final results will be the sole property of the Government of Guyana. Information gathered will be handled collectively with specified groupings into rural, urban, coastal and hinterland areas made for analysis and reporting.He noted that interviewers will be properly identified with picture ID cards issued by the Bureau of Statistics, and will also be trained to seek the required information correctly without any discomfort to the sampled household.Guyana will also be getting assistance from a technical agency from the United States in conducting this survey, while funding will be provided by USAID.

More than $7 billion was last year drawn from the nation’s Consolidated Fund by way of 80 Contingencies Fund advances,Cheap China Jerseys, but four of these advances, amounting to just over $1 billion, did not fully meet the criteria.This is according to the 2011 Auditor General Report which details that the Contingencies Fund continued to be used without meeting the requisite criteria, with amounts totalling $1.146 billion drawn from the Fund. These monies, the Report states, was utilised to meet expenditure that did not meet the eligibility criteria as defined in the Fiscal Management and Accountability (FMA) Act.Discrepancies were detected in advances for the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs for the provision of Amerindian development projects and programmes, while the Public Works Ministry directed questionable advances to consultancy, engineering and designs, procurement of four excavators and drainage and irrigation works. Together, the two Ministries’ advances amounted to $1 billion.Construction of a new inpatient facility by the Health Ministry costing $120 million was also listed among the debatable amounts highlighted in the Report.Another amount of $26 million was listed as defray expenditure in relation to National Awards and other events hosted by the State under the Office of the President,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, the Report adds.The Auditor General’s Report outlined that a similar state of affairs has been highlighted on repeated occasions in previous Reports. It was noted, too, that where any advance is made, a supplementary estimate must be laid before the National Assembly, as soon as is practicable, for the purpose of properly authorising the replacement of the amount advanced.As was stated in previous years, the Audit Office has recommended that the Ministry of Finance adopts stringent measures to ensure that there is compliance with Section 41 of the FMA Act. However, in its response, the Finance Ministry indicated that it continues to ensure that there is full compliance with the requirements of the FMA Act, as it relates to the granting of Contingencies Fund Advances.In accordance with Section 41 of the FMA Act, the Minister of Finance “may approve a Contingencies Fund Advance as an expenditure out of the Consolidated Fund by the issuance of a drawing right.”The criteria require the Minister to be satisfied that: “an urgent,Cheap Jerseys 2018, unavoidable and unforeseen need for the expenditure has arisen (a) for which no monies have been appropriated or for which the sum appropriated is insufficient; (b) for which monies cannot be reallocated as provided for under this Act; or (c) which cannot be deferred without injury to the public interest…”Meanwhile, approximately $4 billion contained in special accounts is currently owing to the nation’s coffers, a situation which the Auditor General has warned warrants urgent action. The Audit Report,wholesale jerseys, which offers an assessment of the Public Accounts, the Accounts of Ministries,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, Departments and Regions for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2011, revealed that 11 special accounts held at the Bank of Guyana, together make up a balance of approximately $4.306 billion.? This sum, according to the Report,Cheap Jerseys Online, appears to be funds that were transferrable to the Consolidated Fund.? It was pointed out too that eight of the existing accounts reflect static balances totalling $1.774 billion over the last five years.

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Hydroponics is not new, but in Guyana it is an adaptation to climate change and is being practised worldwide. With urban households having to face space as a limiting factor, it provides a means where persons can have the opportunity to provide themselves with certain basic things. Explaining the process, Dr. Oudho Homenauth of the National Agricultural and Research Institute (NARI), stated that hydroponics is the cultivation of crops without soil,Discount NFL Jerseys, or by using a soilless culture. He pointed out that it can also be done in the hinterland communities which are being targeted by NARI, especially in those areas which are prone to flooding.Pointing out that this method of farming has not been commercialised, he observed that the St. Stanislaus Farm had started this activity a number of years ago. There were a number of training sessions in which mostly women participated. Homenauth pointed out that NARI has since moved a little bit beyond that where a structure has more or less been established.“We didn’t go for the hi-tech facility, (but) something we can replicate in various communities,” he stated. Working with other organisations, where technical support was given, a number of crops have been grown using soilless culture, nutrients and solutions.Because the exercise is being carried out above ground, there is no chance of the crops being flooded, said Homenauth. He added that persons who are interested in practising this method of raising crops would find it easy,Discount Football Jerseys, since they could use materials which are usually discarded. Plastic and other discarded containers can be used to grow crops.What is currently being focused on is the raising of celery,Cheap NFL Jerseys, lettuce, cabbages, tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, poi and cauliflower.Dr. Bissasar Chintamanie, Plant Scientist of NARI, says the method is simple and inexpensive. A mixture of white sand and paddy shells provide the medium for the plant to root. The nutrient solution,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, costing only $40 per litre is added each day during the watering process. Or alternatively, clean water (rain water) can be used and the nutrients added daily. It can be done under shade, with UV plastic and mesh preventing the sun’s radiation and insects from entering the enclosed shed, or it can be done under an open shed.Explaining that the operation is on raised beds, especially in areas prone to flooding, he pointed out that it is also for use in areas where there is no arable land or where the soil is poor, and where commercial production is not possible.Chintamanie pointed out that all the essential plant nutrients are in solution form, containing nitrogen,Cheap Jerseys From China, phosphorus and potassium. He explained that the plants cannot take it up in the powdered form which is available,Cheap NFL Jerseys, “So you have to make the solution and water it on a daily basis, in the morning… 40ml for each plant.”Lettuce can be ready for harvest, from the time of planting the seed after 30 days. The cost is only $40 per plant, and lettuce sells at $100 a head.Chintamanie said that the research facility is also examining the introduction of aquaphonics, where fish and plants will be grown together. The waste from the fish will go towards feeding the plants. He explained that the fish waste has a lot of nutrients needed by plants, and this can be used for growing leafy vegetables. However, this new farming method is only in the experimental stage. It has to be tested first to get all the data corrected.“Within a month’s time you can reap a crop that is pesticide-free, disease-free and you can just pick and eat,” he concluded.

– six teams advance to second round Six teams,Authentic NFL Jerseys Cheap, including defending champions Tactical Services Unit, have made it through to the second round of the Guyana Police Force Annual Debating Competition.Following a keenly contested first round, the six teams will debate the topic, ‘A significant increase in police salary will increase the effectiveness of the Guyana Police Force’.Apart from the TSU,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the other teams vying for the coveted trophy and other cash incentives are the Police Finance Office; Berbice Division; Immigration; West Demerara (D) Division and the E and F Division.In the first round, the teams debated the topic? ‘Crime control in Guyana is not just a police matter’.In highly competitive match-ups, the TSU brushed aside the Criminal Investigations Department; E and F Division defeated A Division; Berbice accounted for Special Constabulary Headquarters; Immigration trounced G Division (Essequibo); D Division eliminated the East Coast Demerara Division and the Police Finance Office took care of the Felix Austin Police College.According to co-ordinator of the competition, Assistant Commissioner (ret’d) Cecil Bovell,NFL Jerseys 2018, the second round will take place on September 27 at various locations.The TSU will take on E and F Division; Berbice will match wits with the Police Finance Office,Cheap Jerseys Authentic, while D Division will come up against the Immigration Department.Bovell indicated that members of the public who wish to attend the debates will be informed of the respective venues.Meanwhile, participants in the annual police essay competition for the President’s Gold Medal, have until October 22 to submit their entries.The topic this year is ‘The role of the police is guided by the politics,Wholesale China Jerseys, economic, social and technical conditions prevailing in the society’.The essay competition was which was resuscitated last year is opened to ranks from Constable to Assistant Superintendent.Last year,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Sergeant Ramlakhan of Berbice won the competition although the entries did not meet the criteria to be awarded the President’s Gold Medal.

Some three years after the opening of the Berbice River Bridge, persons who operated businesses and shops along Matthew Allen Road, New Amsterdam and at the Rosignol Stelling roads are feeling the squeeze even more to earn a daily living.When Kaieteur News visited the New Amsterdam side earlier this week, what used to be the hustle and bustle of Matthew Allen Road is now akin to a ghost town.Where crowds of people once gathered at the corner of the many snack shops and beer bars, today just a person or two can be seen reading a newspaper or smoking a cigarette.Indeed, life has changed for the vendors and shop owners some three years after the bridge.Indeed, life has changed drastically for these two thoroughfares– New Amsterdam and Rosignol Stelling Roads. There is no need for persons to visit these areas, ever since the Berbice River Bridge was commissioned and opened in December 2008. All or most traffic now traverse the bridge.While life has become much easier for some who find it easier and faster to use the much- touted floating bridge,Cheap Jerseys, life for the snackette vendors has become a living hell. It was observed that the majority of the huts and snackettes along the two stelling roads have been closed down. It was evident that the owners had given up on making a living there.Perhaps they operated a few months after the ferries stopped operating and observed that they were not doing any kind of business,Cheap NFL Jerseys, so they packed up and left, leaving the their stalls as stark reminders of what once went on there.There are just about five businesses operating on the New Amsterdam side while just three or so operate on the other side of the river. There were dozens of businesses on both sides prior to December 2008.Just over two years later, tensions are still high. Snackette owners are still furious with the authorities for not putting them somewhere else to sell or ensuring that they had another means to earn their daily bread. They had been promised other locations to operate their snackettes in 2008 even after the authorities has spoken with them, even took photographs of their shops.“This Berbice bridge killed the whole Berbice,NFL Jerseys China,” one shop owner said. She said that a few vendors had remained after the bridge opened. She said that she remained because,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, “I gotta hustle still; I get a mortgage to pay.”She said she has been doing 90 per cent less business since the bridge opened. “Whole day you here and you ain’t even sell $5,000”, she lamented.One other snackette owner posited that the Avinash chain store located on the same ferry road is suffering immensely. When Kaieteur News went into the store, one could count the number of persons shopping inside on the fingers of one hand. One customer representative was at the entrance and seemed to be on the look out for customers.The scene on the Rosignol side was no different. Save for a beer garden that was located some distance from the Rosignol Ferry Stelling and some music that was playing there,Cheap Hockey Jerseys, that area seemed abandoned as well. Huge padlocks and bars on what used to be snackettes and stalls greeted the eye.Sisto’s Snackette on the Rosignol side is still open for business. Egg balls,NHL Jerseys From China, hamburgers, channa , soft drinks and beers can still be had from there. But where are the customers? The scene is common to other snack shops, there are no customers.The stellings are still used today, since the pontoon service operates thrice per day for school children and workers but the vendors said that this is not enough to give their businesses the economic jolt they so badly need.Life remains a daily struggle for the mostly house- wives and single mothers who continue in the face of adversity to make a living on the two stelling roads in Berbice, even where the prospects of such are dim. (Leon Suseran)