Investigators probing a $3B attempted loan to the Central Housing and Planning Authority from the GuyanaFormer Housing Minister, Irfaan AliGeology and Mines Commission (CH&PA) back in January are questioning the reasons for the transaction in the first place.This is because CH&PA’s bank accounts reportedly had a hefty $8B in them.This latest disclosure would raise startling questions over the previous administration’s handling of the country’s finances.The $3B loan would have caused the housing authority to pay interest of up to five percent.The transaction was made public by upset insiders of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC),Adidas Hockey Jerseys Cheap, the regulatory body charged with overseeing the mining sector, and shelved after objections and a court case.The fallouts had caused GGMC to pay lawyers at least $7M in fees to advise them about the legality of the transaction.The then opposition had accused the Government of wanting the monies to spend on its elections campaign.“That is why the people of Guyana want to know why the previous Government and the former housing Minister Irfaan Ali were so insistent on getting this loan. Based on the amount of money that CH&PA had in their accounts,Authentic NHL Jerseys, it appears that there was no need…it just did not make sense,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys,” a senior Government officialGGMC’s Chairman, Clinton Williamssaid Friday.Back in January, the Donald Ramotar Cabinet of Ministers issued a directive to GGMC, ordering the body to process a loan to the CH&PA for housing projects.But a number of GGMC officials objected,Nike NFL Jerseys China, arguing that it would not be legal and its monies were supposed to target developments in the mining sectors, not housing.After the transaction, which came to light in the midst of impending elections were objected to, legal advice was paid for.In March,NFL Jerseys China, the Cabinet came back with an amended request…the loan was really to boost housing for mining communities.CH&PA Director Ranwell Jordan and Opposition Parliamentarian, Desmond Trotman,Wholesale Jerseys China, took the matter to court with Chief Justice Ian Chang ruling that indeed the transaction would be illegal and should not go through.GGMC’s Chairman, Clinton Williams, claimed that CH&PA had failed to produce a detailed plan on how it intended to spend the monies.At least two prominent lawyers, Timothy Jonas and Sir Fenton Ramsahoye had raised questions also of the legality.

By Melissa JohnsonNUMBER SEVEN VILLAGE,NFL Jerseys China Online, CORENTYNE – The battered body of a taxi driver was found yesterday morning in a canal at Number Seven Village, which is along the Number Nineteen Highway. Dead is 27-year-old Trevor Kissoon, of 25 Alexander Street in New Amsterdam, an employee of the J&N Taxi Service.According to police in Division ‘B’, Kissoon was dispatched to locate a passenger at the Canje Turn just after 23:00hrs on Wednesday and subsequently was not heard from.Yesterday at around 11:15hrs, they (police) received a telephone call from a resident in the said area informing them that a body was in the canal. There were severe wounds to the head and one above the right eye which from initial investigations appeared to have resulted from a blow with a blunt object.Up to late yesterday afternoon, the victim’s car, a silver Carina AT 212, HB 7489, had not been recovered.Premchand Rajaram, whose son Sattish Rajaram owns the J&N Taxi Service at Trinity and Main Streets in New Amsterdam,China Jersyes Cheap, said the business has been in operation for five months and the driver began working shortly after. According to him,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, a man called the base requesting a taxi about 23:00 hours.“The person say they would be at Canje Turn and Trevor left to go. Trevor call the base about two something this (yesterday) morning saying he at Number Thirty-six Village coming back up to New Amsterdam. When he called then, he said the passenger told him he stopping at Church View because he has two suitcases to pick up and then go back to Skeldon.”According to the older Rajaram, the victim’s reputed wife made contact with the base enquiring of his whereabouts, “His wife came out about two something this morning and enquired, because she said he was to pick her up from some party. She called his phone and somebody else,China Jerseys, a male, answer his cell and say he is in a house doing something and the phone went dead. So they call back after then and never got through to him again.”Trevor Kissoon was said to be working the 12-hour shift from 19:00 hours (Wednesday) to 07:00 hours yesterday.Distraught relatives wail at the sight of their loved one“Trevor was an alright guy. He had no problem with anybody. He was just a simple guy. If they wanted the car they coulda just push the guy out and take it. Is a life we talking about.”The service ceased operations about 09:00 hours yesterday and they went in search of their driver.One of Trevor Kissoon’s brothers, Stanley Ramsammy, said family members had no idea what transpired, “This (yesterday) morning we got a call from his fianc?e saying she didn’t hear from him since last (Wednesday) night. We informed the police and we began searching. We later found him dead on the Number Nineteen road. His head…at the back was battered. His eyes…both of them were dug out.”Like everyone else, he described Trevor Kissoon as a people’s person,Wholesale China Jerseys, loved by everybody, with no known threats or enemies.A close friend, Sean Babb of Nicholay Street in New Amsterdam, last saw Trevor Kissoon on Wednesday night. According to him, the dead man’s sister Juanita Burrowes, celebrated her birth anniversary and a ‘get together’ was held at the Rainbow Bar at Charles Place.“He was working and each time the man pass he blow (honked his horn) on we because he girl was there. This morning his brother come to me shedding tears and say dem ain’t finding Trevor. Even his work place didn’t getting no communication with him on the radio set or on his cell phone.” He called him a cool guy with no enemies.When Kaieteur News arrived on the scene at the Number Nineteen Highway, his relatives were there along with a small crowd. Police ranks had already secured the scene and the body was being prepared for removal by undertakers from the Arokium Funeral Parlour.Family members and friends wept bitterly, none of them had anticipated that a mundane day would have had such a bitter ending. Juanita Burrowes, between tears,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, recalled that her brother lived with his girlfriend Alexis Thompson. He was said to be the seventh of 12 children.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) last Monday commenced its Claims and Objections exercise for the highly anticipated upcoming Local Government Elections next year.Chief Elections Officer, Keith LowenfieldWithin three days, the Secretariat received 558 applications for new registrations, 103 applications for transfers, eight applications for entry into the Preliminary List of Voters (PLVs) using Form 4, and 192 applications for Change/Correction. No objections were received so far.The exercise was initiated to produce a Register of Voters (RoV) for each of the nine Municipalities and 62 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs); it is expected to end on December 13, 2015.Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield told reporters at a recent media briefing that GECOM is also registering persons who will be 18 years old and over by February 29, 2016 in non-local authority areas. This exercise also commenced on November 9 and will end on December 6, 2015.“To date in this exercise we have received 34 applications for new registrations, and four applications for transfers,” he said,Cheap Jerseys, noting that at the conclusion of the period,Authentic Jerseys Cheap, GECOM will have an administrative process where all electors who come onboard are matched to ensure that there is no duplicity of elector listed.Persons who will be 18 years old or over by February 29, 2016 and who are Guyanese by birth, descent,Cheap Soccer Jerseys, naturalization or are citizens from a Commonwealth country living in Guyana for one year or more are eligible to vote at Local Government Elections.The electors are required to check the relevant Lists, which were posted at prominent locations in all of the respective Constituencies and apply for registration if their name is not on the list; apply for a transfer if they have changed their address since they were last registered and apply for a name change or correction if they have changed their name or if they listed information is not accurate.Lowenfield announced that GECOM has established some 160 Claims and Objections Offices at strategic locations within all of the Municipalities and NDCs to ensure the success of the exercise. All of these offices, he said, have been gazetted and published in the print media, prior to the commencement of the exercise, as is required by law.He further stated that there were scrutineers assigned to every office for the period. He added that prior to the commencement of the exercise,Wholesale Baseball Jerseys 2018, GECOM had embarked on a “full-fledged information drive at grass roots level” while awaiting the production of infomercials via the electronic media.At present, GECOM is engaged with placements of the infomercials via every available electronic media house, along with the publication of full page advertisements in the print media focusing on specific aspects of the Claims and Objections exercise initially and then with a shift towards Local Government Elections.These activities are included in a comprehensive Civic and Voter Education Strategy which has already been approved by the Commission.For a long time,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, the US government and other governments have been calling for the holding of Local Government Elections,China NFL Jerseys, which have not been held since 1994. These elections are expected to be held sometime after March 2016.