Guyana Observer News

The Office of the President is still proving to be delinquent in its finances according to the Auditor General’s report. In his report for the Fiscal Year 2009 the AG examined the accounts and records of the various Government Agencies. His investigation of the Office of the President revealed that for at least the fourth year running three agencies have been misrepresented as Local Organisations rather than as departments under the Office of the President. Through that misrepresentation funds were paid out to these agencies and according to the AG’s report, “… were inappropriately charged as Subsidies and Contributions to Local Organisations.” The three agencies are the Presidential Guard, Castellani House and Joint Intelligence Coordinating Agency. he AG states that “the inclusion of this sum materially misrepresents subsidies and contributions paid for the period under review.”

-gun licence expired

Police Constable Orrin Arthur was remanded to prison on Wednesday when he was charged with shooting Kerwin Greene at One Mile, Wismar, Linden. t the Christianburg Magistrates’ Court, Magis-trate Ann McLennan heard that on October 2, Arthur, of 192 Dacama Circle, Linden, allegedly shot Greene with a .38 revolver while being the holder of an expired firearm licence. Arthur was charged with shooting Greene with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or cause grievous harm. Magistrate McLennan was told that at the time of the shooting Arthur was allegedly attempting to settle a matter with a friend and another resident. Greene allegedly approached him with a gun. While Arthur was allegedly attempting to disarm Greene, his firearm went off and Greene was hit.

Thirty-two-year-old David Husen of La Penitence Public Road, is deeply troubled and traumatized after the treatment he experienced from some of the members of the Guyana Police Force. According to Husen, on Wednesday last, he was at a stall in the La Penitence Market where he works, around midday when “some plain clothes officers” arrested him, without showing him any identification or stating the reason for his arrest. He said that they held his hands behind his back and began beating him from the market, while asking him “Where the two big black tanks deh? Where yuh put dem? Who yuh sell dem to?” Husen stated he was terrified and confused, but he knew nothing of what they were questioning him about, so he replied, “ Y’all accusing the wrong person”.

-gov’t says previous order cannot be found

Over four years after the Amerindian Act 2006 was passed by Parliament, a Bill to bring it into force was yesterday laid in the National Assembly by government after it said the previous instrument utilized could not be located. The Bill seeks to retroactively cover all activity sanctioned so far under the legislation. Recently, during Amerindian Heritage month in September, chartered accountant and attorney Christopher Ram, in a letter to Stabroek News had noted that years after the Act’s passage, it had not been brought into force though the administration had, numerous times, highlighted the Act as evidence of its respect for the rights of our indigenous peoples. There had been no response by the government to Ram’s contention until yesterday.

(In photo: The Commander and Officer-In-Charge of Traffic Kevin Adonis, left and Commander Merai)

By Melissa Johnson

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Division ‘B’ of the Guyana Police Force is short of 40 traffic ranks and this tells a tale. But Commander of Division ‘B’ of the Guyana Police Force, Assistant Commissioner Steve Merai gave the assurance that despite the situation his team works diligently to ensure that the traffic enforcement campaign breeds success. After last Friday’s tragedy on the Number Nineteen Highway which claimed 12 lives, the focus would be expanded to include trucks as well and they would be pulled in like other categories of vehicles. “We have a few killer trucks out there…There are speeding.” Yesterday, Thursday, Mr. Merai summoned a press briefing to deal with the said fatal accident. He called it the most gruesome accident and the worst in the entire country. He extended condolence on behalf of the Commissioner of Police Henry Greene and the administration of the Guyana Police Force.

By Freddie Kissoon

One of life’s tantalizing, bewildering and exasperating mysteries will remain locked away, never to be revealed, even when human civilization reaches its last moment. It revolves around the influence of God upon human beings. The question that is as old as time itself is why does a believer in God do bad or evil or unjust things that in the eyes of God should not have been done? But more fascinating is the inquiry as to how the person that God’s church entrusted to spread the word of God behave worst than an animal – the priest, whether from the Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Jewish religion. I have put that mystery to my philosophy professors when I was in graduate school and I have got all types of answers that I am not comfortable with. The most common of these responses is that if you ask God for forgiveness he will forgive you. That is horse dung to me. You molest an under-aged female parishioner, and you ask God for forgiveness. God has to be a weird person to keep forgiving you all the time. These underaged churchgoers then just have to accept the suffering while God keeps washing your sins away. Sorry! But this has to be the largest fault in religion.

 Marcia Fiedtkou, a 26-year-old first-time mother was the second patient to lose her new-born baby in about two weeks following delivery at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC). Her relatives are blaming the doctor who they say delayed performing a caesarean section. Speaking with Stabroek News, Richard Winter the father of Fiedtkou said that in this instance the nurses at the hospital are to be commended. His comments were representing residents of a section of Linden who felt that a united voice was necessary to avoid a recurrence of the daughter’s experience. “The nurses must be complimented because had the doctor listen to them today Marcia would be holding her baby in her arms.” said Winter. He explained that his daughter was admitted to the LHC with abdominal pains on Tuesday 26th October 2010, the very day she was giving as her due date. The woman was examined and told that she wasn’t fully dilated. “They said the following day she would have been ready to give birth to the baby. The following shift said it was reduced, so it started getting confusing but she was crying out for severe pains.”