– RamjattanAlliance For Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan is charging that the Parliamentary Hansard has been tampered with.Ramjattan was referring to the session that relates to the controversial $4 billion allocation which was allotted to the Housing Ministry. The process was being questioned by the AFC Chairman.Ramjattan said that the answer which was given by Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali to a question asked by Alliance For Change Co-Vice Chairperson Sheila Holder during the January 11 sitting of the House,NFL Jerseys China, was not accurate.Khemraj RamjattanRamjattan was at the time referring to Financial Paper #6 which was tabled in the House earlier this year and involved billions of dollars which Ramjattan is charging was not spent for the housing sector,NFL Jerseys China, according to the laws of Guyana.According to Ramjattan,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, he was reliably informed that the Hansard – which is the verbatim record of the National Assembly – has been tampered with,Wholesale NFL Jerseys 2018, and he has therefore requested that the Speaker of the House launch an investigation into the alleged tampering.“What I feared will happen with the Hansard when it was not forthcoming in the usual seven to 10 days has actually happened now that it has taken some 40 days for compilation,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,” Ramjattan said.He added that it was queried in the House from the Housing Minister whether the money was already spent and he answered in the negative, but the expenditure for 2010 clearly states that the money has already been spent and as such,NFL Jerseys Supply, the Housing Minister was in breach of the laws of Guyana.Ramjattan recently told this newspaper that what is now recorded in the Hansard and attributed to the Housing Minister is “we are ready.” This he stessed should have read, “We have spent it already.”Ramjattan told this newspaper that he intended to use the Hansard of the National Assembly to file accurate statements against the duo with the Director of Public Prosecutions.

It is now mandatory for pregnant mothers attending antenatal clinics in Regions One, Seven, Eight and Nine to be tested for malaria on each visit, says Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, Chief Medical Officer.Of the 10 maternal deaths reported countrywide thus far for 2013,Cheap Jerseys From China, two women died from severe cerebral malaria (Falciparum). As such, those deaths are not calculated among maternal deaths but the Ministry finds it worrying that both women were patients of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and succumbed from an infectious disease that could have been treated.Cerebral malaria occurs when the parasite invades the brain. The infected person experiences mild fever during the early stage and if not treated,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, it results in swelling of the brain. In pregnant women the infection is treatable without negative impact on the fetus. However, severe malaria could cause miscarriages.Speaking directly of the two incidents, Dr. Persaud said that the mothers were from areas known to have malaria. They could have contracted malaria before their pregnancies. “They were pegged as high risk pregnancies and sent into the hospitals. One was actually a patient of a private hospital and was subsequently sent to GPHC.”“We hope that we wouldn’t have such an incident again. Usually it is very difficult because both mothers had signs of cerebral malaria, which is usually a serious form of malaria even without pregnancies,” he said.According to Dr. Persaud,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, sometimes it is believed that malaria is out in the hinterland regions resulting in persons who manage malaria to be dispatched to those areas. Since the deaths, the Ministry has been pressing on the Malaria Programme to have GPHC’s wards be more conscious that malaria is a common disease in Guyana. “Our principal hospital needs to be up on par and know how to manage every case of malaria,” he said.The Chief Medical Officer related that the Ministry has reviewed the guidelines of managing malaria and pregnancies, and the guidelines are now being disseminated.Training of new obstetric doctors in managing malaria is also part of the Ministry’s objectives.The Ministry will be rigidly implementing its policy to ensure that in all Regions, pregnant women visiting antenatal clinics should have malaria smears done. Once the tests are positive,Cheap NFL Jerseys, corrective treatments should be given.“Apparently it was not enforced as rigidly as it was supposed to have. We are trying to put that back in place. In the malaria Regions, One, Seven, Eight and Nine,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, every mother who goes to an antenatal clinic must get a prick and a malaria smear. So we can guarantee the public we will work on this.”Commenting on the other eight deaths that are considered direct maternal deaths, Dr. Persaud said five were from GPHC, one from New Amsterdam Hospital,Wholesale Jerseys USA, one from Suddie Hospital, and two from private hospitals.Most of those deaths resulted from excessive bleeding after delivery and rupturing of the uterus. “The loss of blood is still a big issue when it comes to managing maternal deaths,” he said. The other deaths were related to an ectopic pregnancy and an abortion.

Lethem,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, in the south of Guyana,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, recorded its first road fatality for the year when 67-year old Malcolm Goodrich was struck down by a speeding car on the access road to the international crossing on Friday afternoon.Goodrich died on his way to the Lethem Hospital around 16:00 hours,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, without regaining consciousness.Goodrich, a food vendor and a Guyanese who is originally from the Essequibo Coast, and who now resides in Bon Fin,Cheap Jerseys From China, Brazil,Cheap Jerseys From China, travelled across the border everyday to ply his trade.According to reports, he was riding his bicycle heading back to Brazil when he was hit by the car which was being driven by a woman.Goodrich’s wife Cleopathra Davis stands at the spot where her husband’s lifeless body landed after he was struck by the car.Eyewitnesses said that the driver of the car, a prominent Lethem businesswoman,Cheap NFL Football Jerseys, who had overtaken another vehicle, lost control and slammed into Goodrich who was proceeding in the opposite direction.So severe was the impact that Goodrich and his bicycle were hurled into the air before landing several yards away.The driver of the car was detained but was released along with her vehicle less than 24 hours after the accident.

Andrew Gomes who reportedly confessed to killing his father Stanislaus Gomes was remanded yesterday after his file finally entered the court.Yesterday,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, he made yet another court appearance, this time before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to be recharged for the murder of his father.Andrew Gomes, 25,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, of Waiakabra Village on the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway,Cheap China Jerseys, was not required to plead to the indictable offence.It is alleged that on November 27, 2008 Andrew Gomes murdered his father Stanislaus Gomes with a cutlass.Police prosecutor Kevin London stated that a case was established against the defendant and as such the defendant was recharged for the offence of murder. He added that the prosecution is ready and willing to vigorously prosecute the case. Gomes who was unrepresented in court said nothing.He is expected to return to court on November 30.In the late morning of November 27, 2008, Andrew Gomes ended the life of his father, 57-year-old Stanislaus Gomes, a murder that rocked the village of Waiakabra, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. After several court appearances, Andrew Gomes was made to walk as a free man last Wednesday since the police failed to present the necessary file with the confession and other statements to the Providence Magistrate’s Court.Kaieteur News understands that the younger Gomes was a drug addict, and that his addiction was ongoing for “quite some time.” He had made threats to his father’s life on several occasions prior to the murder.On the day in question after committing the crime,Cheap Jerseys, Andrew Gomes had run to a neighbour’s home some two miles away from the scene of the crime,Jerseys NFL Cheap, with the bloody cutlass used in the murder. He was picked up within an hour of committing the capital crime by ranks of the Timehri Police Station, and was taken away without putting up any form of resistance.Stanislaus Gomes and his son,China Adidas Hockey Jerseys, his only child, lived on a large plot of land, an average ten minutes drive from the highway, through a number of trails.

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