There seems to be some confusion over who paid to have Army Lance Corporal, Kevon Payne executed last Tuesday.While investigators are convinced that they have the shooter in custody,NFL Jerseys From China, they have a lot more work to do in order to figure out who really wanted Payne dead.They are hoping to solve this puzzle by today, once the result of tests conducted on the hands of at least two suspects for traces of gunpowder residue, become available.Ranks are convinced that once they are equipped with the results, persons will start talking.Payne’s death occurred two days before another Charlestown resident,NFL Jerseys Outlet, Gladstone Taylor was also executed, a short distance from where the soldier was gunned down.Investigators believe that the two killings are related.There are four persons in custody for the two execution-style killings which occurred in a matter of three days in Charlestown.Lance Corporal Kevon Payne was gunned down in front of his mother’s Charlestown home last Tuesday.The alleged shooter and an Albouystown drug dealer,NFL Jerseys Outlet, who is said to have ordered the hit,Wholesale Jerseys From China, are in custody.The second execution was that of Taylor, a father of five, who was shot dead last Friday.Payne’s brother, Vellone Thorne and one of his friends are in custody for Taylor’s killing. There are eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen Thorne shooting the father of five at a liming spot in Charlestown.POSSIBLE LINKDetectives are working on a number of theories and are hoping to solve these two execution-style killings soon.One theory is that Taylor had ordered the hit on the soldier.Executed: Gladstone TaylorExecuted: Kevon PayneAccording to information received, Vellone Thorne, who was described by villagers as a “trouble maker” would usually get into problem with a number of persons in both Albouystown and Charlestown and would then complain to his soldier brother, Payne.Reports are that the soldier would then confront these persons and even threaten them.“This soldier boy is na no easy person. His brother does pick trouble with everybody and then he (soldier) does come and bad up to people because he is a soldier so he feel he big and bad,” a resident said.Investigators are hearing that Taylor, who is considered the ‘Godfather’ for the area, got tired of the brothers’ drama and paid to have the soldier killed.It is believed that Vellone Thorne found out about the hit and decided to take matters into his own hands after his brother was killed.But there is also a theory that the same Albouystown drug dealer who is in custody ordered the hit and not Taylor.According to information received, a few days before his brother was killed, Vellone Thorne was involved in an argument with a drug dealer, who is known to the family.The argument turned physical and the drug dealer reportedly later threatened to “finish” Thorne.Kaieteur News was told that the drug dealer boasted that he has $10M and was willing to pay “the experts” to take out Thorne because he was too “disrespectful.”There are reports that when Kevon Payne heard about the incident involving his sibling, he asked for time off from his work last Tuesday to go home and sort things out.“Payne come like big boy to confront the man (drug dealer) and he even jump over the man fence. He tell the man that if he touch his brother, he gone gat to live in the sky,” the resident said.Later that same day, the soldier was executed in front of his home.Investigators now have to figure out if anyone was paid to have the soldier killed and how Taylor’s killing is linked to Payne’s death.Meanwhile, Thorne’s father, Rudolph Thorne, in an interview said that his son could not have killed Taylor, since he was at a wake at their home for his dead brother. This is despite the fact that three eyewitnesses have told police that they saw Vellone Thorne shoot Taylor.“My son has no reason to kill Tuffy. The police already arrested the people who killed my stepson, so why Vellone would kill Tuffy?”However, the older Thorne did admit that they had initially blamed a family member of Taylor’s for his stepson’s death.According to Rudolph Thorne,NFL Jerseys China, when O’Riley Small was gunned down on March 19, last, a nephew of Taylor was telling villagers that it was Vellone Thorne who had killed the former robbery accused.Words got back to Vellone Thorne and he allegedly confronted Taylor’s nephew.“My son confronted the nephew and later that day he (the nephew) came to me and tell me that Vellone said that he was telling people that Vellone killed O’Riley. I told him not to worry with that because people already get charged,” Thorne said.He added that later that day, his stepson,

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its most recent assessment of Guyana urged Government to seriously consider improving how it goes about structuring its public-private partnership (PPP) deals for large-scale projects.Former President, Bharrat JagdeoThis is the specific model introduced by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) that has come under increased scrutiny and criticism, given the fact that it sees Government putting huge sums of money into projects,Jerseys From China, but the ownership and control find its way into the hands of a private people and companies.This practice has also seen government not even receiving a penny on its investment so that the private individuals hog millions each year.Take for example the Berbice River Bridge which opened its gates to vehicular traffic in December 2008. This project has been extensively analyzed by the likes of Financial Analyst, Christopher Ram. That bridge was built using the now infamous public-private partnership model.The Berbice River Bridge and approach roads cost $9.9B to construct and the money was raised through loans to the extent of $6.8B and investments to the tune of $3.1B. The taxpayers/Government of Guyana made 90 per cent of the investment share in the Berbice Bridge.Government’s share of the direct investment was $2.7B and the other private investors placed $320M. Despite this, the board of the Berbice Bridge is controlled by the private investors, meaning government literally had no say in running the affairs of the bridge.It was only recently that Gillian Burton was appointed a director on the board on behalf of Govt. while the five other directors are private sector officials.Bharrat Jagdeo’s best friend, ‘Bobby’ RamroopThe Government provided the land on which the approach roads have been built. It paid $100M compensation to displaced residents and then built the road at a cost of $1.7B. It then invested $950M more through the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).The private investors at the time were the New GPC owned by Bharrat Jagdeo’s best friend, Dr Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop; Hand in Hand CEO and Winston Brassington’s business partner, Keith Evelyn; CLICO (Guyana) headed by Geeta Singh-Knight; the Beharry Group, Demerara Contractors Limited and the National Insurance Scheme.New GPC invested $80M; NIS $80M; CLICO $80M; Beharry Group,$80M; Hand in Hand,NFL Jerseys From China, $40M and Demerara Contractors $40M.When CLICO later collapsed and had to be liquidated,Cheap Jerseys From China, it sold its shares to Ramroop’s New GPC.NICIL, which is headed by Brassington decided that he would waive collecting dividends on the $950M. This means that to date the taxpayers/Government have not received any returns on the investment, given that each year the dividends is paid out only to the private investors.The Government had also banned all cars, minibuses and other small vehicles from using the Berbice Ferry and forced all persons to use the bridge. This was done to ensure that the bridge makes a profit to pay those private investors. The toll for a vehicle to cross that Bridge is twenty-two times the cost for crossing the Demerara Harbour Bridge.Taxpayers have been literally robbed of over $104M each year so that those private investors can rake in their profits.The Private Sector Commission (PSC) recently sought to argue that the bridge is majority owned by private companies and said that NIS is an institutional investor which acquired the shares held by NICIL.Head of NICILWinston BrassingtonRam had challenged this position and asked if “the PSC truly believe that being an “institutional investor” in the Bridge Company alters the legal nature and status of the NIS? And does it not agree that following the sale, the NIS now owns 76 per cent of the issued shares in the company? The PSC refuses to acknowledge that the National Insurance Scheme is government-controlled.”The public was never informed as to when,cheap nfl jerseys, how and for how much these shares were transferred.Another glaring example of how Government is putting in large sums of money to benefit private hands is the Marriott Hotel under construction in Kingston.That project again features Winston Brassington at the centre of its development, with NICIL again investing a significant amount of the money.NICIL has already spent US$19.5M on the $58M project. This is made up of a US$15.5M loan and an investment of US$4M.Brassington formed a company named Atlantic Hotel Inc (AHI) to build and own the hotel.The US$4M invested as equity by NICIL gives it 33 per cent ownership. A still to be named private investor will be putting in a total of US$8M out of the entire US$58M and will be the majority owner. This is so because NICIL c

– Dr. Surendra PersaudOver the centuries breast cancer has remained a leading cause of death among women, with available statistics revealing that it is the number two most deadly form of cancer in Guyana, with cervical cancer taking its place at the top of the list.This is according to General Surgeon and Director of Caribbean Surgery,China NFL Jerseys, Dr. Surendra Persaud, who has over the years been operating out of Woodlands Hospital and St. Joseph Mercy.With a keen eye on the potentially deadly infliction,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Dr. Persaud has maintained over the years that “the earlier we can find a woman with breast cancer the better are her chances of surviving.”This is possible even in light of the fact that there is yet no cure for any form of cancer, but rather patients can go into remission.“Five years after you would have been diagnosed with cancer and you are still alive, this is what we regard as being in remission…”And there has been growing success in Guyana when it comes to addressing the disease,Cheap Jerseys Free, according toDr. Surendra PersaudDr. Persaud, who revealed that the various types of diagnostic tests and treatments are readily available here when compared to about a decade ago.He confidently asserted that everything that is needful to address breast cancer, right down to the screening process,Jerseys NFL Cheap, is readily available in Guyana.? The screening process is especially important when addressing some forms of cancer, as according to the expert physician, this could help to detect cancer at hopefully an even earlier stage, allowing for it to be tackled in a timely manner.“If we are able to detect breast cancer in a woman at Stage One instead of Stage Four her survival is much better, so that is why screening is so important.”Screening, Dr. Persaud explained, generally has three parts when it comes to breast cancer. This, he said, includes self breast examination,Wholesale Jerseys Group, which as the term suggests is done by the woman herself; clinical breast examination which is done by a clinician who exams women’s breast on a regular basis and then there is the mammogram.However, in Guyana there seems to be an overuse of ultrasonography in breast conditions and this is something that physicians are working on,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Dr. Persaud added. Ultrasonography has been playing an increasingly important role in the evaluation of breast cancer, and according to researchers it is useful in the evaluation of palpable masses that are mammographically occult in the evaluation of clinically suspected breast lesions in women younger than 30. It is also used in the evaluation of many abnormalities seen on mammograms.Some breast imagers believe that the technique is the primary modality for the evaluation of palpable masses in women 30 years and older while mammography plays an adjunctive technique.But in order to avoid the overuse of the ultrasonography technology, physicians are essentially advocating for women over the age of 18 to start examining their own breasts approximately seven to 10 days after their menstruation, Dr. Persaud noted.However, “although the signs have suggested that there isn’t a tremendous benefit for this,Cheap MLB Jerseys, we feel that it is good to have women feel comfortable with their own bodies especially in a country like Guyana where we have some cultural issues about women touching their bodies…”But should this prove to be a problem, Dr. Persaud asserted that women can always rely on a health worker who can afford breast examination at six-month intervals. Nevertheless, an annual mammogram has for years been deemed essential. In fact, according to the expert, “everywhere in the world we agree that women over the age of 50 should have an annual mammogram; not everywhere in the world do we agree that a woman between 40 and 50 should have an annual mammogram.”Guyana, according to Dr. Persaud, has dared to be different whereby physicians have been requesting that women have a mammogram between the 40 and 50 year-old range.? This has however,NFL Jerseys China, created a controversy in light of the fact that a number of studies have shown that the earlier a mammogram is taken the benefits may not fully outweigh the risks.“We have found that we may be subjecting a number of women to unnecessary procedures because if you do a mammogram and you see something, you have to pursue it until you are sure.? However, most of us feel that it is still a good idea…even though we know there is nothing normal about a woman ha