…expected out of hospital todayShadow Housing and Water Minister,China Jerseys Wholesale, Leader of the National Front Alliance and PNCR Member of Parliament,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Keith Scott,Cheap NFL jerseys China, has suffered a mild stroke (cerebrovascular accident) and up to yesterday was resting at the Woodlands Hospital.Keith Scott This newspaper was reliably informed that Scott suffered the stroke which attacked the right side of his body on Saturday and it has affected his speech.He is not allowed visitors. When contacted his wife said that upon his release from the hospital he will issue a statement.Scott was a founding member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) and later launched his own Party,China Jerseys Cheap, the National Democratic Movement (NDM). This Party later merged with others to become the National Front Alliance (NFA). This later merged with the PNCR when the One Guyana faction was introduced.

With national budget presentation being just about five months away, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is awaiting the High Court ruling on the legality of budget cuts before any moves at negotiation or compromise can be made.That was the position stated by the Party’s General Secretary, Clement Rohee, at a press conference held on Monday at Freedom House.At A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s last press conference, Opposition Leader David Granger had no qualms about stating that the national budget is condemned to suffer the same fate as the last two years, if all the issues that existed before are still there.He told media operatives that if the National Communications Network (NCN) and the Government Information Agency (GINA) do not pull up their proverbial socks,Jerseys NFL Wholesale China, budgetary allocations set aside for both agencies will be in jeopardy.Rohee, asked to comment on his government’s collaboration with the opposition and the likely reaction of more budget cuts, said that the PPP is not in possession of a “crystal ball” to anticipate what is going to happen.He told reporters that the most he could say “politically speaking,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, is that you will never have a budget to the satisfaction of the opposition. The budget, usually or by convention, is a responsibility of the government of the day and I haven’t noted any indication that the government wishes to resign from that responsibility.“But that is why usually when the budget is presented the government is expected to take blows from the opposition,Nike NFL Jerseys China, because in most countries, the Opposition is not fully satisfied.”Rohee pointed out that the High Court is likely to rule, soon, on the case of Budget cuts.“I would say let us hold our breath until the court ruling is made on this subject and that will provide guidance for all the Parties on this subject in the future.”The General Secretary said that in the meantime, from his understanding, the Ministry of Finance continues to invite stakeholders to participate in consultations with respect to the budget.Asked to list some of the “stakeholders” who were invited, since APNU said it has not been, Rohee responded, “I can’t answer for APNU; I cannot say with any certainty, that they were invited.”Last Friday, Granger told the media that the Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh neglected to invite APNU’s Shadow Minister of Finance,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, Carl Greenidge, to hammer out the framework on the 2014 budget.The Opposition Leader told reporters that there are many issues that need to be addressed, changed and ventilated during the ongoing budget preparations.Granger sought to explain that his party’s move to instigate budget cuts is driven by principles. He affirmed that should there be no changes at NCN and GINA, as it relates to impartial media coverage, APNU’s axe will fall on allocations set aside for both agencies.The joint parliamentary opposition—APNU and the Alliance For Change (AFC)—has been arguing that GINA and NCN only provide coverage for the ruling administration.Last year, the opposition called for the NCN board report on alleged fraud in the organization as a prerequisite to grant the agency its budgetary allocation.Just as was the case last year, the allocations set aside this year for the National Communications Network (NCN) -$81,337,000 and Government Information Agency (GINA) – $135,858,000,Wholesale Jerseys, were reduced to $1 each.However,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, the capital funding remained as provided for by the government with NCN having $65M and GINA $13M.

…picket GAWU headquartersDiamond sugar workers downed tools and raised placards yesterday morning in protest of a decision that sees them being denied severance pay when their positions are terminated at the end of this – Diamond’s last sugar crop.Almost 100 workers converged out front of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) main office chanting “No severance, no vote! No severance,Cheap NHL Jerseys, no vote!” and waving placards.Despite the inclement weather the workers continued to raise their voices in unison as they called for a solution to their plight.Speaking to the media was Mr. Lucien Pierre, who on a normal day, harvests sugar cane but today was representing his fellow workers joined in protest. The workers were, according to Pierre, protesting the speed with which a court case that GAWU has filed against GUYSUCO is proceeding.Earlier this year, GAWU filed a motion against GUYSUCO seeking severance pay for the hundreds of field workers of the Diamond Sugar Estate which will officially end all planting activities after this last harvest is completed.Pierre said that the union, GAWU, is moving too slowly on the matter.“We are displeased with the attitude of the General Secretary towards the matter” he said. Pierre claimed that he had approached the General Secretary of GAWU,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, Seepaul Narine, more than three weeks ago requesting a meeting between workers and executives where they would be able to discuss the next step in the matter.He claimed that their silence on the matter is making the workers feel as if the union does not have their best interests at heart.GAWU President, Komal Chand told Kaieteur News yesterday that he understands exactly how the workers feel but that the matter is in the hands of the courts. “I would be out there picketing with them if they weren’t picketing my office!”He claimed that Chief Justice Ian Chang needs to assign a judge to the matter so that the hearings can begin.The workers, through Pierre also called on Chief Justice Chang,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, to treat the matter as urgent and grant it some much needed attention since he was after all dealing with their lives.Pierre claimed that GUYSUCO closed both the factory and the workshop and granted all of those workers severance pay. Yet according to statements made by GUYSUCO management the field workers will be transferred to the La Bonne Intention (LBI) Estate, where they can continue to work for the corporation – with no severance pay.Chand however claimed that the key premise to the writ filed by the union on the workers behalf was in accordance with certain sections of the Termination of Employment and Severance Pay Act that deals with the conditions under which the workers have to perform their duties if they are offered continued employment elsewhere in the organization.He claimed that the longer distance that the workers have to travel was one of the factors that come into play.That point was better explained by Pierre who said that if he leaves home at 04:45 hrs every morning to go all the way to LBI,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, by the time he was in the field it would be closer to 06:45 hours whereas the same time at the Diamond Estate would see him with almost two and a half tons of cane on the ground.He argued that the longer distance would affect his earning ability so it was not as simple as just transferring to another estate.Pierre argued that GUYSUCO’s simple solution was no solution at all, and the workers who have been depending on the Union are beginning to get worried. “We are willing”,China Jerseys, he said, “to do whatever it takes – within the law of course, because we are not above the law – to? see that the workers get their severance pay.”He said that the workers were willing to picket at the Ministry of Agriculture and the GUYSUCO Head Office if that was what it took to get the problem solved since all of the workers protesting and even those who weren’t there wanted their severance pay.Pierre added,Wholesale Jerseys USA, “The issue doesn’t just concern the three hundred plus workers at Diamond, it concerns the families of the workers as well.”He noted that a large portion of the sitting Government’s support base is made up of sugar workers and if the government does not do all in their power to take care of the sugar workers then they would simply have to give their vote where they feel it would be of greater benefit to the sugar workers and their families.Last October, GUYSUCO informed its workers at the Diamond estate of their plans to close operations at that estate and consolidate its labor force. The Sugar giant then explained that grant