Watchdog body, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), has urged Government to hold public consultations before proceeding with a Chinese firm that has been awarded a contract to build the stalled Amaila Falls Hydro Electric project.Former President Bharrat JagdeoGovernment had been signaling intentions to start the project before the end of this year but there is emerging worries over the questionable track record of an associated company of that Chinese contractor which is embroiled in bribery scandals.The situation has reached the attention of Norway and a critical committee has recommended that no business should be done with China Railway Group Ltd (CRG). CRG’s subsidiary, China Railways First Group (CRFG), is the company awarded the US$506M contract to build the US$850M-plus project in Region Eight, Guyana.Norway would be concerned how monies are being spent as that country has a US$250M agreement with Guyana for this country to maintain its forests in a sustainable manner. Some US$80M will be used from the Norway money as part of Guyana’s equity for the project.The rest of the monies are reportedly coming from the Chinese and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) –about US$175M from the latter.According to GHRA yesterday, China Railways First Group (CRFG) has won several important contracts in Guyana, including construction of the stalled hydro project.An artist’s impression of the site.“With the prospects for Amaila having improved appreciably in recent weeks, the Guyana Government would do well to take note of another development in relation to the CRG,Wholesale Jerseys China, involving Norway,” the body warned.GHRA explained that the Norwegian’s Ministry of Finance manages the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the largest investment fund of its kind in the world.? It has monies invested in CRG.An important component of the Ministry’s decision-making in determining its investments are the recommendations of its influential Council on Ethics (CE).CorruptionThe end-of-the year 2014 CE Annual Report recommended “the exclusion of China Railway Group Ltd. (CRG) from the investment universe of the GPFG due to the unacceptable risk of the company being responsible for gross corruption.”GHRA explained that CRG is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of the China Railways Engineering Group (CREG), listed on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges. The importance of the linkage between the various companies is highlighted in the Council of Ethics Report:”…CRG is involved in one of the most serious corruption cases in China, is still managed by the same people who managed it when the acts of corruption took place and who knew or ought to have known about the acts, and is still operating in countries heavily exposed to corruption without at the same time,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, making it clear that it is trying to prevent future violations, the Council believes there is an unacceptable risk of CRG being involved in future cases of gross corruption.”The Committee also said that “…The management of CRG apparently also knew about the bribes from the parent company. This is supported by the fact that the current CEOs and legal director, as well as several other key managers in CRG, also held important positions in the parent company during the years when the acts of corruption apparently took place…. The company’s annual report for 2013 states that: ‘CRG’s president until 2014 was a vice executive president of the parent company from 2006 to 2007’.”The CE Report continues: “In addition, the parent company has apparently bribed China’s former railway minister in order to secure major contracts for CRG. In June 2013, the railway minister was convicted in China of taking bribes to award contracts to individual companies for a number of years. The Council on Ethics assumes that CRG knew about its parent company’s bribes. This assumption is substantiated by,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, among other things, the close ties between the parent company and CRG. Reports in the Chinese press also refer to the parent company being one of the companies that have been investigated and sanctioned internally by the Communist Party for having paid bribes.”Stop!GHRA noted that in Guyana, CRFG signed the contract with US-owned Sithe Global of the Blackstone Group, for construction in Guyana of the Amaila Falls hydro-scheme and related transmission lines in a contract worth US$506M.“Should the political problems surrounding Amaila be resolved, it is assumed that CRFG would be head of the line to get the contract again.”The association also noted that last year, the same company, CRFG, was awarded the $8.7B East Coast road expansion project.Around the same time the company, under its locally incorporated title, CRFG (Guyana Inc.), were reportedly granted two free lo

Yesterday following a private viewing and ceremony according to Hindu rites, and a public viewing and tribute at a relative’s home in Prashad Nagar, Shewraney Doobay was cremated.Some time after 8:00 hours yesterday, the woman’s body arrived at her Echilibar Villas home, where a handful of relatives gathered inside of the house for a private ceremony. The woman’s remains were then taken to Prashad Nagar were there was a public viewing and a sermon which saw an outpouring of tributes.Mrs. Doobay’s remains were then taken to the Good Hope Crematorium where close relatives and friends said their farewell.The body of 58-year-old Shewraney Doobay was found lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of the Doobays two-storey Echilibar Villas, Campbellville residence last week Tuesday. She had been repeatedly struck in the head with a blunt instrument.Strands of human hair were retrieved from her right hand.Her husband, Head of Internal Medicine at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Dr. Ramsundar Doobay, accompanied by his nephew,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, arrived home around 16:30 hours. He called repeatedly for his wife to open the door but got no answer.He eventually sought assistance from his nephew to remove a few panes from a window on the upper flat,NFL Jerseys China, since those in the lower flat were reinforced with metal grills. The nephew then climbed through the window, and entered the bottom flat, where he made the gruesome discovery.Further investigations led to the arrests of Mark Singh and Shakir Mohamed. Singh was handcuffed when he,Wholesale Jerseys USA, accompanied by his accomplice, led police to a trench in Stone Avenue,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, Campbellville, in which the ranks subsequently found a hammer.Persons paying their last respect to Mrs. Shewraney Doobay. The claw hammer, which was wrapped in a black plastic bag, was recovered on the stroke of 3:00 pm on Tuesday, last, from the trench, just a corner away from the Doobays’ residence.Mark Singh, the woman’s nephew, of 44 Prince William Street,China Jerseys NFL, Plaisance,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, East Coast Demerara, and Shakir Mohamed, of 127 Latchmi Street, Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, were charged with the capital offence, murder. They have since been remanded.