The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security on Thursday hosted a One- Stop-Shop meeting at the Albion Sports Complex on the Corentyne,Stitched Jerseys, to address on-the-ground complaints and issues regarding pensioners and other persons in the Berbice area. Present at the event was Minister Jennifer Webster and a team of officials from the Ministry.Minister Webster dealing personally with the issues of pensioners in Berbice.They dealt with and addressed matters such as old-age pensions, electricity and water subsidies, disability benefits as well as public assistance.Dr. Webster, in addressing the pensioners reaffirmed the commitment of her staff to ensure better services. “I am committing my officers—servants of the people—to ensure that we do our work in a timely manner, so we will have less complaints!”Dr. Webster said that this year, the Ministry plans to have the various forms on the Ministry of Social Services Website, “so you don’t have to take time out to go to the office to collect the form and pay the cost of a minibus fare…if you have access to the computer…you can just go on our website and download the form.”The forms, she said though, are always readily available at all the Ministry’s sub- offices, countrywide.She urged those eligible for old age pensions to apply at least six weeks before their 65th birthday, “so that you will complete your application form; submit your ID card and other documentation…and supporting documentation….so that we can confirm that for our database.”The Ministry has now moved,NFL Jerseys Outlet, she added, to become a fully computerized database so that its operations can be more efficient. “We’re also working with the Guyana Post Office Corporation.”Minister Webster voiced her concerns about the GPOC not having money available in their coffers to pay pensioners. She noted that her Ministry would pay millions of dollars by the 20th of the month to the GPOC,Cheap Jerseys For Wholesale, and yet the Ministry receives regular complaints about pensioners from the Corentyne and Skeldon turning up at Post Offices only to be told that there is no money available to pay.“I have heard reports of Post Offices along the Corentyne taking some of the pensioners’ money,Cheap China Jerseys, when they go there.”She enlightened the senior citizens present at the forum to make sure they check their money thoroughly before leaving the post offices. “The monthly pension is $13,125—counts your money and check it before you leave and ensure you get what is yours—because they might think that you are old and you don’t know.”She said that she has received numerous complaints from pensioners who say that they received money short by some $3,000. They make the discovery when they go home and re- count their pensions.“That shouldn’t be and it’s very sad that people are trying to rob the senior citizens of Guyana,Jerseys From China, who have served their country well—That shouldn’t happen, and I wish to say that is not a very good act on behalf of the persons who are doing that. I wish they would stop it.”Member of Parliament, Faizal M. Jaffarally, speaking to this newspaper during the One-stop-shop, noted that the administration continues to receive reports and complaints from pensioners regarding the attitudes of the staff of the Ministry of Human Services, “in the manner they treat our senior citizens.”He said that senior citizens have a right to their pensions and the Ministry and staff should ensure they receive their money in a timely manner.? “Because of the numerous complaints, myself and the Regional Chairman met with the President, and he instructed the Minister to come and solve these problems on the ground.”Jaffarally said that it is quite unfair that our senior citizens have to endure such frustration after attaining the age of 65. “They have served this country well and made tremendous sacrifice, and of course, the government has made the provisions in the national budget for our residents to have their pensions and various subsidies.”Also present at the event were Dinte Conway, Head of Special Projects, Monitoring & Evaluation; Ricardo Banwarie,Jerseys Wholesale, Assistant Chief Probation Officer; Whenthworth James, Director of Social Services; Hymawattie Lagan, Administrator of the Women’s Affairs Bureau;? Shalika David, Probation Officer; Forbes Munroe, Chief Probation Officer, and Region Six Vice-Chairman, Mr. Bhupaul Jhagroo.

The teenaged suspect in the murder of schoolboy Anfernee Bowman on Monday has surrendered to police.Suspect: Samuel CorneliusSamuel Cornelius walked into the East La Penitence Police Station just after noon yesterday in the company of Attorney-at-Law Mark Waldron.Cornelius went into hiding shortly after the altercation with Bowman just outside the South Ruimveldt residence of Dennis Patterson who holds Mathematics classes that both youths attended.Kaieteur News understands that the suspect has given a statement and was subsequently taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre for medical attention last night.It is not yet clear what the suspect was treated for, but there is speculation that he might have been injured in Monday night’s fatal incident.A woman, who went to the aid of the wounded Bowman,Jerseys From China, said that he was armed with a knife and was pursuing the suspect when he collapsed.Beryl Greene’s son operates a stall in the Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt area where Bowman was stabbed at around 18:30 hrs on Monday.She said that she was the first person to render assistance but did not see when he was wounded.The vendor’s story seems to confirm reports that both youths were armed when the altercation occurred.However, the police recovered a solitary weapon – a sharpened screwdriver– at the scene of the stabbing and later identified it as the murder weapon.Bowman’s family members are insisting that their son was unarmed and that the 18-year-old suspect was the aggressor. The discovery of a single weapon seemed to support their belief.The suspect was believed to have been armed with the screwdriver, which police reportedly recovered in the area.The vendor, Beryl Greene, who said that she went to the aid of the wounded Bowman, told Kaieteur News that she always keeps an eye on the students who mill around on Aubrey Barker Street after classes.On Monday evening, the vendor said she was at her son’s roadside stand when a number of students exited Mr. Patterson’s residence.Greene said that she saw when one of the students sprinted across Aubrey Barker Street into nearby Mittelholzer Street,China Jerseys, North Ruimveldt. According to the vendor, another student, who was wearing a white shirt and blue trousers, sprinted in the same direction.Dead: Anfernee BowmanShe said that the second student’s clothes were bloodstained. Greene said without considering her own safety, she began to run behind the second student.“I didn’t think of my life. I run behind he and I say ‘where the hell you going?” He spin round,Cheap Jerseys Online, and then he collapse in my arms. I start say, ‘Son,Jerseys NFL Cheap, son,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, what happen, because I realize that he was going into shock. I start holler ‘help, help’, and when I start scream people start come (to assist).”According to Greene,Cheap NFL Jerseys, while the lad was not bleeding heavily, she realized that he was badly injured. He was not speaking and his eyes were ‘turning up.’Reports indicate that the killing stemmed from a confrontation over a female student.And up to late last night the police had not notified the dead youth’s parents that the prime suspect had surrendered.