Applications for passports, police clearances, and firearm and traffic licences will not be accepted during the hosting of Carifesta,China Soccer Jerseys, as all ranks will be deployed on the streets to provide adequate protection for citizens and foreigners.This is being done even as Trinidad and Tobago prepares to send a four-man bomb squad to Guyana to provide additional security. The bomb squad from Trinidad will arrive in Guyana tomorrow.With three more days to go before the grand opening of Carifesta X, negotiations are ongoing with the Government of Trinidad and the Regional Security System (RSS) for additional support.Kaieteur News learnt yesterday that additional support is being garnered for the acquisition of air protection.Yesterday, the Security Committee for Carifesta hosted a briefing, outlining the National Security Plan for Carifesta.Speaking at the Police Officers’ Mess, Eve Leary, Commissioner of Police (ag),Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, Henry Greene, said that the Police Force headquarters will do ‘very little book work,’ since ranks are expected to be on the streets.This is being done, he said, so as to ensure that adequate security is provided at all venues.He said that security arrangements and escorts from the airport have already begun.Beginning last Friday, the Commissioner pointed out, there has been an increased in the number of armed foot patrols deployed at specific areas around the city. The entire objective is to ensure that adequate mobile patrols are out on the streets, he said.“We will be having joint operations and are expecting full support from the community policing groups. We, the police and the Joint Services, stand ready to provide the relevant protection,” the Commissioner said.Highlighting the Guyana Defence Force and the Joint Services’ plans for Carifesta, Chief of Staff Gary Best told the media that the mission of the Joint Services is to protect the State against violent criminal and domestic terrorist activities.“We have launched operation ‘WARDEN’…and operation ‘Restore Order’ has now been subsumed in this operation. We continue to maintain our activities with Joint Services Operation Group, which was established particularly to hunt down violent criminals and have them arrested and brought to justice,” he said.That group, he added, will intensify its work over this period.There will also be a special counter-terrorism group, which is now being trained to deal with any acts of domestic terrorism at any of the stipulated venues.“This group has been drawn from the Guyana Defence Force…The main highways (during Carifesta) in Guyana will have ‘control points,’ so that traffic passing through will go through a deliberate process of all vehicles being searched.”He advised that persons leave their homes early for the Carifesta destinations, since they will have to be part of a routine search.“We will dominate the front lands and the backlands to ensure that there is no harbouring of criminals in those areas…We will make ourselves available to ensure that we have maximum force out there to deal with the security threats over this period.”The prison, he said, will focus internally on lock down procedures during this period, control activities and the dissemination of accurate information to the prison population.The Joint Services, which have been deployed across Guyana, will also have air and sea patrol.Meanwhile,NFL Jerseys China, Chairman of the Security Committee and Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, told the gathering yesterday that the security plan was decided upon following 10 months of work.“Security is everybody’s concern, including that of the State…Whether we are having a Carifesta or not, security remains a major concern…because of the event, it is only natural that additional and value-added security measures ought to be put in place.”The environment for hosting Carifesta is very conducive and appropriate, notwithstanding what may have been the opinion of others some months ago, Rohee said.The political opposition, he pointed out, has toned down their anti-Carifesta rhetoric and actions.This, he said, is something that is welcome.“The security environment remains complex…We intend in no way to simplify the situation…We should characterize it as complex, but at the same time we have to recognise that security has been tightened under control by the state security agencies, together with the Joint Services.”Notwithstanding the fact that the security situation remains complex, the minister said, the fact of the matter is that, for the purposes of Carifesta, there is a plan to match and to deal with these complexities.He added that defeating any threats, small or large to national security, during the period of Carifesta is an overriding consideration.“The criminal enterprise still remains

Patients from various wards at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have been left to fend for themselves since Saturday after more than 300 nurses at the institution reported sick.This is the second time in 11 days since nurses from the public hospital have decided to report sick to protest Government’s five per cent pay increase.Government has refused to agree to the workers’ demand of 25 per cent increase.No Nurse at the Nurses’ Station yesterdayThe health care workers reported sick since Saturday and according to an official, the absence of a high number of nurses has placed severe pressure on the already limited human resource capacity at the hospital.When Kaieteur News visited the hospital yesterday; three nurses were in Male Surgical One Ward attending to 35 patients, while one nurse was left to look after approximately 25 patients in the Male Surgical Two Ward.Several patients complained about being left unattended since Saturday. Roy Gonsalves,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, who underwent surgery at the health institution a few days ago,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, was readmitted at the hospital last Wednesday after his wound became infected.“My wound was supposed to be cleaned everyday but since Saturday there was no nurse to clean it. It was bloody and oozing a lot. It is only after my mom called someone this morning that a nurse come and clean it.”Another patient, Ricky Anton, said that his wife had to take care of him and assist two other patients in the ward.“This thing is getting serious. Imagine what is going to happen with patients if all the nurses decided to strike. This government is not very caring at all. Why they can’t give the nurses the 15 percent and everybody will be comfortable? The ministers does thief more than that,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic,” a patient opined.Kaieteur News was told that nurses from the Maternity Unit were sent to attend to the patients from the Male Surgical Wards.Meanwhile, Michael Khan, Chief Executive Officer of GPHC said that he only received one complaint of a patient being neglected.He explained that a patient’s wound was not cleaned during the morning hours, but it was cleaned by 13:00hrs.According to Khan,Cheap China Jerseys, though challenged by the lack of staff,Jerseys Cheap China, management is putting measures in place to continue operations smoothly. He said that during a management meeting today, additional systems would be put in place to deal with shortfalls.

The Wismar Hill Primary School, of Wismar, Linden, defeated seven other schools in Region Ten to emerge winner of the ECHO Healthy Schools competition. It was awarded with a trophy, at a simple ceremony at the Egbert Benjamin Centre in Linden, where the participating schools had gathered for the presentation.Canadian High Commissioner David Devine makes the presentation to the winning Wismar Hill Primary SchoolMackenzie Primary and Christianburg Primary tied for the second spot, while Regma Primary took the fourth position. The three schools were presented with smaller replicas of the winning trophy.Among those who graced the event were High Commissioner of Canada David Devine, Royston King, Executive Director of ECHO, Education Representative Carol Benjamin, Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon and Interim Management Committee Chairman Orrin Gordon. Teachers of the participating schools were also present with their charges.The competition, under the theme, “The need for Clean and Healthy environment within Local Communities”, which involved eight schools in Region Ten, was run for one month.Judging was done in six categories, and schools were visited on Thursday last, and adjudged points based on the cleanliness of their environment.Director of ECHO, Royston King, told the gathering of excited students and teachers, that his organization is working to involve local communities in the conservation of local biodiversity and the areas natural resources.He said that ECHO planted seventy trees in Thomas St Georgetown, two Saturdays ago, and plans to plant 100 trees in Amelia’s Ward, Linden where an environmental awareness park will be developed.King noted that in 2007, twelve ECHO Clubs were formed in Primary Schools in Georgetown. A few months later? a further twelve schools were set up in Region three. According to the Director there are 50 ECHO Clubs in schools across Guyana.“Groups of enthusiastic, environmentally concerned and socially committed students aged between 9-11 years are chosen to form an ECHO Club; For each new Club 25-35 students are registered and become members,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, as well as teachers who become ECHO Club coordinators,” he acknowledged.King added that the teachers are responsible for the ECHO clubs in their Schools, and manage green activities, such as awareness and education programmes, growing trees,wholesale jerseys china, water conservation and purification, and recycling and cleaning up activities.He underscored the objectives of the ECHO Clubs which are to create awareness? of biodiversity and local environmental issues, among school children, create a ‘clean and green consciousness’? through various innovative methods and to involve ECHO CLUB students in open orientation programmes in schools and public places.In the first year, the students and their teachers are educated about the objectives of the Club, and training is provided through environmental education programmes(EEPS).Once an ECHO Club is formed, all members are brought together and briefed about the environment, given an explanation of ECHO Club goals, and a description of the status and future of the natural environment, according to King.Environmental bins are provided to all the schools in ECHO Clubs, and students are responsible for keeping their classrooms litter free.Bins are collected regularly and the refuse disposed of properly, while once a week all ECHO Club members clean the school compound.High Commissioner of Canada, David Devine, lauded the efforts of the students and exhorted them to continue to keep their environment clean.He posited that the importance of a clean healthy environment cannot be overemphasized, because litter is very bad for our health, as it can be a breeding ground for disease causing insects like mosquitoes, cockroaches and rats.The smell from accumulated garbage also causes much discomfort and inconvenience to residents, and cleaning up the mess,Kevin Love Jersey, puts a strain on municipal and central governments budgets, Devine asserted.Devine encouraged the children, to adapt a different attitude, to be positive and make the change.“Speak to your friends and relatives about the importance of keeping the environment clean and healthy. Share what you know and encourage them to keep the environment clean. Dispose of garbage in bins and garbage bags; do not use plastic bags and Styrofoam boxes unnecessarily. Tell your parents to go to stores with cloth bags, instead of plastic bags, Lets make Guyana Shine!” he exhorted, and had the students repeat after him, “Lets make Guyana shine!”Both the IMC Chairman Orrin Gordon and Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon lauded the initiative, and encouraged the children to continue to help keep the environment clean.Gordon noted th