A police constable, just eight months on the job,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, and a young woman from the Pomeroon were among four people killed within two days in separate road accidents.The accidents reportedly occurred between 18:00 hrs on Saturday and 02:45 hrs yesterday.Those killed have been identified as 75-year-old Kishian Manglani of Lot 2D First Street Bel Air Park; Police Constable Jermaine Harlequin, 20, of Lot 8 Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and Delicia Simpson,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, 20.Up to press time the fourth person, a male, remained unidentified.Kaieteur News was unable to get the names of the injured persons, who according to hospital sources, were all treated and discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).At the home of the policeman yesterday, his relatives were all in disbelief at how the young man, who only joined the Guyana Police Force as a Tactical Service Unit (TSU) rank, eight months ago, met his death.Kaieteur News was told that around 02:45 hrs on Sunday, Harlequin was heading home on his motorcycle from a party in Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, with a female, Tiffany Thomas, when the accident occurred.A relative of the policeman said that just as Harlequin was turning into Phoenix Park from the WBD Public Road, the driver of a car, PKK 2237 also turned into the village from the opposite direction.Dead: Policeman Jermaine HarlequinDead: Kishian ManglaniThe 20-year-old and the driver of the motor car collided.It is unclear if Harlequin was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident but this newspaper was told that he was flung several feet away from the accident scene.“He (policeman) was coming from Vreed-en-Hoop direction and the driver was coming from the Harbour Bridge direction and all two of them turned into the (narrow) road and they collided,” the policeman’s relative said.Thomas, 18, was treated and sent away while Harlequin was pronounced dead on arrival at the GPHC.The driver of the car is in police custody.Meanwhile, Kishian Manglani was on Saturday afternoon heading to the Shell Gas Station on Regent Street, Georgetown, when he was struck down by a car.The accident reportedly occurred around 18:15 hrs and the 75-year-old father of three was pronounced dead around 22:00 hrs at the GPHC.According to his daughter, Sabita Manglani,Cheap Jerseys Outlet, based on information given to her, the pensioner had already crossed half-way of the road when he allegedly walked in front of a car.“According to the driver,Wholesale Football Jerseys, the traffic was proceeding slowly (heading in the direction of Stabroek market) and he (Manglani) was in the middle already crossing. He was looking down so he saw the car too late. When he noticed it, he was already in front of it and it was to his tummy,” Sabita said.From the top, Constable Harlequin’s mother, girlfriend, sister and another relativeShe added, “He bent and the car hit his head.”Manglani, who moved to Guyana from India over 35 years ago, was taken to the GPHC by the driver,Authentic Jerseys Wholesale, who is said to be in police custody.Also, Delicia Simpson of Pomeroon was in a Sport Utility Vehicle with several friends, including Dwayne Loafer when the motor vehicle suffered a blowout and the driver of the car lost control of his vehicle. The SUV reportedly overturned.Simpson died on the spot while Loafer was treated at a private hospital and sent away. The other persons who were in the car received minor injuries.According to information, Simpson and her friends were returning from an Amerindian cultural show at St. Cuthbert Mission.The accident reportedly occurred late Saturday.Meanwhile, the police in a statement said that at around 10:30 hrs on Saturday,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, a pedal cyclist was struck down by a motor vehicle on the Good Hope Embankment, East Coast Demerara.He was taken to the GPHC where he succumbed.? The pedal cyclist is of East Indian decent.The driver of the motor vehicle is in police custody assisting with information.

The proposed canal to drain the East Demerara Water Conservancy through Hope,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, East Coast Demerara will cost some $3B.Yesterday, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that cuts will be made to other developmental projects in order to reallocate resources to the building of the structure.According to the Head of State, this project will take priority, since works have to be done on the conservancy side as well as the sea defense side of the Atlantic Ocean.Intermediary structures as well as a long high-level canal will have to be built.This canal will be a minimum of 80 feet wide.Provision was made for the project in the 2009 budget.However, it will take at least one and a half years for the venture to be completed.When contacted yesterday, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said that, by this weekend,NFL Jerseys Cheap, there will be advertisements for technical services in the finalization of the design for that project.He added that preliminary works have been carried out,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, with the identification of a 300-foot wide reserve for the project.This canal will be east of where the school at Hope is presently.The new structure will not go where the Hope outfall is since it will be a separate formation.The minister pointed out that the President’s decision to give the project priority is very much welcome,NFL Jerseys Cheap Authentic, as it will bring tremendous relief to residents of Mahaica and Mahaicony communities that are under flood threat each time the water levels in the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) get to a critical point.In the latter part of 2008, construction works on the Hope Housing Scheme were stopped, as a decision to facilitate the release of excess water from the EDWC through that neighbourhood was made.Head of the Presidential Secretariat,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Dr. Roger Luncheon, subsequently told the media that Cabinet concluded its examination of options on ensuring the safety of the EDWC by improving its drainage flow from the area.He noted that hydrological flow studies indicated that additional drainage was needed to ensure safety.This decision, he added, will lead to some relocation of homes and the abandonment of awards of house lots that would be lying in the intended path of the canal.He noted that the flow design of the intended works would be such as to minimise drainage into the Mahaica Creek and its tributaries.In 2004,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Hope was identified as the area to relocate squatters from West Berbice.Several persons from flood-hit communities were also given house lots in that area.

– denounces exploitation and monopolistic practices of the pastThe People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) recently came out in praise of the private sector as an engine of economic growth. The party said it always advocated for a stronger private sector, with fairness and responsibility, while denouncing exploitation and monopolistic practices.The party also said that “under the PNC [People’s National Congress] the private sector was once decimated, thePPP General Secretary Clement RoheePNC who today claim to be supportive of the private sector workers once controlled 80 per cent of the economy when they were in office and there were businesses which were constantly warned, especially those that survived not to oppose the PNC nor to speak frankly about the issues affecting them.”Those assertions were made by General Secretary of the PPP Clement Rohee during a press conference held recently at Freedom House.According to Rohee, Guyana’s development and continued, strong economic growth would not have been possible if the state still had a stranglehold on the economy.“It is the billions of US dollars on private investment flowing under the PPP/C government that has made the difference,Jerseys NFL Cheap,” Rohee opined.He posited that Guyana’s banking, financial and insurance sector are in the hands of private capital “where decisions on lending are made based on sound investment proposals and the objective evaluation of borrower’s ability to service their loans, our building and construction boom is the beneficiary of this.”Rohee said that one of the biggest private sector contributions to economic development is investment. He added that because of that investment, thousands of workers and their families have been “living in home constructions, building a competitive housing market and contributing to property holding democracy.” He made reference to the domestic aviation sector as an entity that provides thousands of flights throughout the country and is wholly owned by the private sector.The General Secretary also pointed out that rice,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, cash crops, poultry farmers and fishermen among others are the significant private stakeholders in our country’s development.He expressed that the Public-Private Partnership is a very important tool for development and is something that is “touted” all around the world. Rohee said that the PPP/C government has always called for such partnerships and he made reference to the 10-year-old Ogle International Airport project, the Berbice River Bridge project, the housing sector and rice development with the private sector and Venezuelan market as testimony to what he feels can be accomplished by Public Private Partnerships.The PPP said that it “fully endorses the transformational three-piece projects like the Marriott hotel and the Amaila Falls project.”According to Rohee, some of the polices and legislative changes that have contributed to private sector confidence and workers’ motivation include: “divestment of the majority of public interest in economic enterprises, floating exchange rates and the liberalization of the foreign exchange regime, passage of the investment act, the small business act,China NFL Jerseys, the competition act and the reform deeds registry amendment act,China NFL Jerseys, along with the consumers affairs act, the trade union recognition act and the termination of employment and severance pay act” respectively.Rohee said that “constant work continues to cut the red tape of the bureaucracy to make doing business in Guyana easier through GO-Invest [Guyana Office for Investment],Cheap Jerseys From China, the GRA [Guyana Revenue Authority], the GGMC [Guyana Geology and Mines Commission],Cheap Jerseys, the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] and other approval granting agencies.”

– I thought she was at home,Cheap Jerseys USA, mom says A 23-year-old motorcyclist and his 16 year-old female pillion rider were killed at around 03.00 hrs yesterday after crashing into a pickup at Coverden, East Bank Demerara.The accident occurred just as the victims were returning home from a party at a wash bay at Soesdyke.Dead are Rudolph Bess, 23, of Lot 620 Kaneville, East Bank Demerara and 16-year-old Hansranie Persaud of Lot 478 Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.Eyewitnesses said that Bess’ skull was crushed while one of Persaud’s legs was severed.Yolanda Fisher and her husband, Joseph Patterson, who were heading to the city from the Cheddi Jagan International Aisrport, in a Toyota Spacio also sustained minor injuries.Dead: Hansranie PersaudDead: Rudolph BessAlso injured was Jason Bhaskaran,Cheap China Jerseys Authentic, who was driving a pickup, which collided with the motorcycle and then slammed into the Spacio.The injured were admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).According to information received, the pickup was proceeding south along the eastern side of the roadway, while the car and the motorcycle were heading in the opposite direction.Police believe that the driver of the pickup, Bhaskarran, lost control of his vehicle after driving over a speed hump and collided with the motorcyclist and the Spacio.Kaieteur News understands that after colliding with the two vehicles, the pickup finally came to a stop some 150 feet from the point of impact.Bhaskarran,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, who is presently hospitalized, has revealed that while driving, he slowed down at a hump in the road and felt a sudden impact when the car slammed into his Toyota Prado, severing the front right side wheel.He said that this caused his vehicle to spin out of control before toppling.Bhaskarran said that he lost consciousness and only came to when persons were pulling him from his vehicle.He could not say if the motorcyclists slammed into his vehicle or the car.Two of the vehicles that were involved in the accidentAt the home of the 16-year-old girl yesterday, her mother, Savitri Bagnot said that she was sleeping when someone called and informed her that her daughter was killed in an accident.The woman said that she immediately went to the Grove Police Station where her worst fear was confirmed.“When I went there, she was already dead and her foot was cut off and it was like 15 feet from her body,” the woman said.She explained that the news of her daughter’s death came as a shock to her, since the 16-year-old was supposed to be in bed, right next to her.“We went to bed and I see her texting on the phone but I don’t know who it was. When I got up this morning to answer the call, I see the bedroom door open and she wasn’t there,” the woman recalled.It was after the accident that the woman was informed that her daughter had gone to a party with Bess,Discount NFL Jerseys, who she then learnt was the teen’s boyfriend.“I don’t know him and I never met him. Now I am hearing that it was her boyfriend,” the devastated mother said.Meanwhile, Bess’ father said that he had just got up around 04:00 hrs when he received a call from someone who informed him that his son was involved in an accident.“I putting on my clothes and I quarrelling that he riding all over the place but I didn’t know he died. Just as I reach the scene, the person told me he died and the first thing I saw was his brain on the road,Cheap Jerseys Store,” the father recalled.He claimed that his son did not consume alcohol and could not have been under the influence, but police believed both Bess and the 16-year-old were consuming alcoholic beverages before they died.According to the father, he only saw his son Saturday afternoon as he was leaving to attend the party with a few friends at Soesdyke.Police are continuing their investigation.Recent traffic statistics by the police revealed that 17 road fatalities from 17 accidents were recorded at the end of February 2016, in comparison to 19 fatalities from 12 accidents for the same period in 2015.One child has died as a result of a traffic accident at the end of February this year, compared to seven for the same period last year.Five pedestrians, three pedal cyclists, three motor cyclists, four drivers,Stitched Jerseys, a passenger in a motor vehicle and a pillion rider perished at the end of February.Speeding was the cause of 10 of the 17 fatal accidents which occurred last month.Of the 11,783 traffic cases made at the end of February 2016, 4,080 were for speeding, 442 for driving under the influence of alcohol, 130 for using cell phones while driving an