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– selection process has commenced, says Harmon By Shemuel Fanfair One month after former Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud retired from the Guyana Police Force, his replacement will soon be determined as measures are afoot to facilitate the process. In an interview with Guyana Times International on Wednesday, Minister of State Joseph Harmon confirmed that the process to find a substantive replacement has begun. “For the question of appointing a Commissioner of Police… I will say yes the process has been kick-started and that work is going on in that regard,”…

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It is just a matter of formality before the metered parking system is reintroduced in the City of Georgetown, as City Hall is all set to vote to adopt the amended by-laws proposed by the Re-negotiation Committee. At Monday’s Statutory Meeting, Councillor Ivelaw Henry moved that the Standing Orders be suspended to deal with the urgent issue of voting and accepting amended by-laws, and it was after a highly emotional debate that the vote was deferred to April 4. Team Legacy’s Councillor Malcolm Ferreira, said he received his copy of…

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With the aim of boosting the service capacity at the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) Centre, the Public Health Ministry on Tuesday commissioned a Trima Accel-Automated Blood Collection System, known as Apheresis Machine. This is a device which receives blood removed from a patient or donor’s body and separates it into its various components: plasma, platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells. The Apheresis Machine, which is the first of its kind in Guyana, is expected to improve the efficiency of emergency blood transfusions by providing specific components. It…

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People’s National Congress (PNC) General Secretary Amna Ally has dismissed concerns from the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) about her party, noting that the PNC still remains a strong and viable option. In a brief interview with this publication on Sunday, Ally was insistent that the party remained unmoved by the statements being expressed by Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Dr. David Hinds. Amidst growing concerns that the PNC continues to show disregard and disdain for the spirit and letter of agreements it signed with key coalition partners, Political Scientist Dr…

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The creation of a Department of Energy in the Ministry of the Presidency (MotP) with sole control over the purse strings of all oil revenues coming into Government is a dangerous development that must be vehemently opposed on all fronts. This is according to Economic Advisor to the Political Opposition, Peter Ramsaroop, who said the Department, and not the Ministry “with its control over the deposit account – called Wealth or Natural Resources Fund – is the creation of a slush fund with no parliamentary oversight over the spending of…

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Acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine, is supporting the action taken by Police officers involved in the shooting death of three suspected bandits on the Kingston Seawall on Thursday last. He says the use of deadly force is justified. Last Thursday, Police shot and killed Kwame Assanah, Dextroy Cordis and Errol Adams during a shootout on the Kingston seawalls. The men were reportedly about to rob someone who had just finished a transaction at a city bank and had headed to the seawalls. “The Policemen acted in keeping with the law.…

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In wake of the United States (US) ban on the import of catfish species, Government is seeking to assure it is taking measures after the fact to address the ban; something likely to have a ripple effect on a number of fishermen. In a brief interview with this publication, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder declared that Government is trying to satisfy the requirements it had been warned it would be in default of. “We’re putting things in place to satisfy the requirements. The requirements are stringent and it’s difficult to meet…

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…says Govt Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh on Thursday testified at the ongoing Lindo Creek Commission of Inquiry (COI) that he never conducted post mortem examinations on the eight (8) miners who were killed. Sometime between June 12, 2008 and June 24, 2008, miners Cecil Arokium, Dax Arokium, Compton Speirs, Horace Drakes, Clifton Wong, Lancelot Lee, Bonny Harry and Nigel Torres were shot and killed, and their bodies burnt at the Upper Berbice River mining camp, which was being operated by Leonard Arokium. Sigh told the…

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Thirty-eight-year-old Rajindra Balkaran, called ‘Gomes’, and his uncle Vishnu Gopaul, called ‘Strokeman’ and ‘Balbala’, a pork vendor at the Port Mourant Market, traded chops on Monday afternoon at Kitten Dam, Portuguese Quarters, Port Mourant Corentyne; and are now both hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, with Gopaul being listed in critical condition. Reports reaching this newspaper detail that Balkaran was under the influence of alcohol when he accused his uncle of being a “cochore”. After hurling several expletives at his uncle, Balkaran walked over to Gopaul’s donkey cart and…

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