The Soesdyke Community Development Council members are protesting the recent election of Aaron Grant-Stuart as Chairman, and Michael Persaud,NFL Jerseys China, as Vice Chairman of the Soesdyke Te Huis Te Coverden Neighbourhood Democratic Council.Following the elections on Monday, the group formally penned a letter that was supposed to be delivered to the elections commission yesterday protesting the elections.Leslie Glasgow, the outgoing Chairman, on behalf of the Soesdyke Community Development Council, a civil group that contested the 1994 Local Government Elections,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, at the Soesdyke Te Huis Te Coverden Neighbourhood Democrative Council area, signed the letter.Glasgow lodged a formal protest at the way in which the internal elections for Chairman and Vice Chairman were conducted on Monday as directed by the Minister of Local Government.Explaining, Glasgow said that on April 24, last,NFL Jerseys From China, the Minister of Local Government appointed four Councillors to fill vacant seats on the PPP/C side. One of the replacements was Shelly Ann Baya,NFL Jerseys Outlet, a schoolteacher.Baya served until Wednesday, July 22,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, when she attended the statutory meeting. On July 24, at 15:00 hrs, Glasgow said that a letter was received from the Minister of Local Government rescinding the appointment of Shelly Ann Baya on the grounds that she is not a public servant.She is a teacher at a Private School.The letter immediately appointed Nadia Hussain to replace Baya.? He said,Wholesale Jerseys, “We view this unprecedented move as deliberate and unwarranted since at the time of her appointment Ms. Baya was in the same employ.”Pointing to what the group dubs alarming, Glasgow’s letter states that Hussain never sat at a Statutory Meeting of the Council, and was therefore never received in the Council but she turned up and voted at a duly constituted election at a special meeting of the Council.“This move to our mind was unconstitutional and therefore illegal as the law requires that notices for such electoral process must be served on every serving Councilors at least seventy two hours in advance.”Glasgow said that from 15:00 hrs on Friday when the letter was received to 08:00 hrs on the Monday following could never have given the authorized time for the serving of the notice.In view of this, Glasgow said his group informed the clerk that they are protesting the legality of Hussain’s casting her ballot during that process which further rendered the whole process null and void. He says his group anxiously awaits a reply from the elections commission.

Education Minister, Shaik Baksh says that there are no considerations currently underway to compensate the family of Teneisha De Souza, the nine-year-old girl who died on the first day of the school year in September when she fell into the pit latrine at her school.Baksh was responding to a question posed to him in the National Assembly by Alliance for Change Leader, Raphael Trotman, on Wednesday.According to Baksh, there was never any discussion as it relates to compensating the family of the girl that perished.Trotman, when contacted for a response to the Minister’s position, said that he found it to be heartless to note that the girl died through no fault of her own in her school latrine.He said that he hoped that Guyanese generally, and moreso the people of Moruca, take note of the government’s position.Trotman noted that in the past other Guyanese have been compensated for various atrocities that befell them. The Minister and Trotman also differed on another incident involving a student and a pit latrine.According to Trotman,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, he was in receipt of reports that a female student of the Annai Secondary School had also fallen into a pit latrine.Family members of De Souza had initially expressed surprise at the comments by Education Minister Baksh when he had said that “pit latrines are adequate for this day and age.”The schoolgirl died in the latrine during the first day of the new school term. Teneisha’s grandfather, Marco De Souza,Wholesale Jerseys, wondered whether (Baksh) ever gave it a second thought.According to De Souza, Santa Rosa is the oldest and largest Amerindian mission in Guyana. “Yet for one reason or the other this mission is being left behind in many ways.Yanawarin,Discount NFL Jerseys, Waramuri and Assakata Primary Schools have flush toilets and their school enrollment is much smaller than that of Santa Rosa Primary.”He noted,cheap jerseys from china, too,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, that the Santa Rosa Primary School compound cannot accommodate anymore pit latrines given that it was a practice for more than eighty years.He challenged Baksh or his Permanent Secretary, Phulandar Khandi,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, to visit Santa Rosa and have a first hand look, “and then argue the point”. He noted that ever since the tragedy, the primary school students are afraid to go near any pit latrines at the school.A number of stakeholders have called for the outlawing of pit latrines at schools but Baksh is quoted in the media as saying that his Ministry does not intend to phase-out the use of pit latrines in schools since they were internationally accepted as proper for sanitary disposal.He had added though that maybe in another few years the issue would be addressed, but it would be a very expensive exercise.

Authorities have visited a number of chicken hatcheries to ensure that practices are in keeping with regulations.According to the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), a regulatory agency of the Agriculture Ministry charged with monitoring the chicken industry among other things, hatcheries are vaccinating their layers and meat-birds (broilers) in keeping with programs.An official of the Lall Beharry facility speaking with GLDA officials on Monday during an unannounced visit.However, one hatchery reportedly refused entry to officials and GLDA asserted that action will be taken.There have been complaints by farmers that certain hatcheries are not vaccinating their chicks in the correct manner,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, leading to premature deaths shortly after being bought by the farmers.On Monday, GLDA’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Dindyal Permaul, and two senior veterinary officers made several unannounced inspections of the hatcheries located mainly on the East Bank of Demerara. Those visited included Fung-A-Fat and Didco, in the city; Edun at Craig; Lall Beharry at Friendship and Bounty Farms at Timehri/Soesdyke.While there was no hatching at the time of the inspections,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, the body promised to revisit the hatcheries at that time to ensure that there is compliance.“Staff cooperated fully, provided access and information regarding questions posed on vaccination, sanitization,Cheap Jerseys Online, veterinary pharmaceuticals and general bio-security. One hatchery, the Guyana Stockfeed Limited, denied access to the inspecting team and action will be pursued,” GLDA said.“Our examination has revealed that the hatcheries are pursuing their vaccination programs regarding layers and broilers. At this time of visit, no chicks were being hatched. Consequently, it was not possible to witness the vaccination of the thousands of chicks. However, information is being shared pertaining to hatch days. On these days, GLDA staff will pursue randomized inspection visits.”The authority noted that under the Animal Health Law passed in Parliament recently, failure to provide access and information to an authorized officer constitutes an offence.GLDA noted that inspections have taken on extra importance as it has been supplying its entire domestic needs for chickens and table eggs.“Any relaxation of existing regulations and laws can only serve to whittle away these gains. Further, our food security becomes compromised and our expressed resolve to be an exporter of livestock products can enter the doldrums.”The body warned that it is in the interest of all participants in the poultry commodity-value chain to secure the industry so that greater gains can be achieved.Virtually all chicks are produced from imported eggs brought in either by air or by ships and hatched by a small number of privately-run hatcheries, almost exclusively located in Demerara.Newly emerged chicks of the broiler or the layer type suffer from a number of diseases, many of which cause death or poor weight gain in the production cycle.Eggs at a hatchery.Over the years,Wholesale NFL Jerseys Online, the poultry industry has developed a number of ways of controlling these diseases. One such strategy is vaccination. In Guyana’s case,Jerseys Wholesale, owners and operators of hatcheries are by law compelled to vaccinate against diseases such as Inclusion Body Hepatitis/Hydropericardium Syndrome (HH), Infectious Bursal Disease and Mareks.HH for many years, when it was first found in Guyana, had a devastating effect on the local poultry sector, decimating growth and increasing mortality by as much as 70% among broiler birds. This prompted the promulgation of the Sale of Chicks Regulations in February 2008.GLDA,Cheap Jerseys China, a semi-autonomous body, has responsibility for all livestock matters under its parent legislation.