Police Commissioner admitted to CHI

Police Commissioner Henry Greene is currently a patient at the Caribbean Heart Institute having suffered heart related complications.
Reports are that Greene developed a breathing problem some time on Friday and was rushed to St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital before being referred to CHI. He was admitted on Friday afternoon and was found to be suffering from congestive heart failure, according to an attending physician.

Commissioner of Police, Henrey Greene

Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body’s other organs. This can result from narrowed arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle and lead to coronary artery disease and even high blood pressure.
The failing heart could keep working but not as efficiently as it should. People with heart failure are usually unable to exert themselves because they become short of breath and tired.
according to reports, the Commissioner was treated with heart medication which has since alleviated the problem to some extent.
Up to yesterday he was resting comfortably at CHI. He is expected to remain there for the next few days.  According to attending Cardiologist, Dr Ghansham Singh, the Commissioner is listed as stable.

Headless body of unidentified woman found in suitcase
- dumped in creek near Emerald Tower Resort

Police are trying to ascertain the identity of a woman whose headless body was discovered yesterday in a suitcase near the Emerald Tower Resort at Madewini, off the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
             The fair-complexioned woman’s body was stuffed into a black briefcase, which was dumped into the Madewini Creek. A length of rope was wrapped around the body and the killer(s) had attached a heavy metal object to the other end of the rope in an effort to weigh the body down.
            The victim was wearing a pair of black shorts and a multi-coloured top.
            Detectives retrieved a passport (Number 0730108) bearing the name Teesa or Neesa Lalita Gopaul from the suitcase. A bank card was also found with the remains.
The gruesome find was made around noon by a family that had gone to the abandoned resort to swim in the Madewini Creek.
          The family while at the creek became aware of an unpleasant odour and observed the black suitcase in the water.
         Suspecting the worst, they immediately summoned a male relative who was in the area. The man said that he poked the suitcase with a stick and saw what appeared to be part of a body protruding from it.
He then summoned the police.
         The man and others suggested that the killer was familiar with the area and that he had taken his victim there by vehicle. The resort is about a mile off the highway and can only be accessed by a trail.
No blood was found at the crime scene.
         Porters from the Lyken Funeral parlour eventually removed the body around 17:00 hrs.
On March 13, the decomposed remains of Alpha Hotel owner Rosaline Hall were found wrapped in a tarpaulin near the resort.
       And last March, the body of 58-year-old Lambert Patrick Clarke was found along the Emerald Tower trail. A post mortem revealed that he had died from natural causes.

Stretch of road between Punt Trench Dam and Broad Street to be riveted to two way traffic
- to significantly ease traffic congestion

 The Ministry of Public Works has overlaid the La Penitence carriageway from Punt Trench Dam to Broad Street; in an effort to ensure a free and safe flow of traffic along the corridor. 
            According to Road and Traffic Safety Engineer, Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Nigel Erskine, the asphalt works to the road commenced on September 30 and was completed on October 1. The decision to return it into a two-way road came into effect after a successful meeting with Ministers of Transport and Hydraulics and Home Affairs, Robenson Benn and Clement Rohee respectively, and engineers from the Ministry in August.

Works to the two-way lane road at La Penitence

            When the Government Information Agency (GINA), took its cameras to the site, workers were painting two lanes 11 feet wide and ‘no parking signs’ on the western side.
            According to Erskine during the morning periods there is a tremendous build up of traffic from the Demerara Harbour Bridge leading into Georgetown and as such, the initiative is necessary to relieve traffic congestion and for the efficient discharge of traffic on the East Bank road into Sussex, Broad and Lombard Streets.
“Currently vehicles can only come into Georgetown through Lombard Street, but what we are trying to facilitate here is to have another alternative entrance into the city. The entire carriageway into Saffon Street has been overlaid to allow free movement to two lanes of traffic in either direction,” he said.
He noted that with the completion of the two lanes vehicles would now be allowed to come through Saffon Street and enter the city either from Sussex or Broad Streets using the secondary roads leading into the city, as was not possible previously.

Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Road and Traffic Safety Engineer, Nigel Erskine and Technical Engineer, Kester Hinds inspect a section of the La Penitence carriage way from Punt trench Dam to Broad Street

 The Road and Safety Engineer, pointed out that it anticipated that the project will significantly ease the traffic build-up, often occurred during the peak period of the morning.
The road has been a one way from 6 am to 6 pm for several years.
In line with the development, a meeting is scheduled for October 6 whereby stakeholders, stallholders and the business community will meet to discuss the way forward, as the intervention would require vendors to re-locate.
            They will be allowed to air their views and make suggestions pertaining to the new development.
             “We will however have to work out arrangements as to how vendors would be required to off-load their goods at the market. What we plan to do is rehabilitate the bridge on the northern side of the market, so that vendors would be able to off-load their goods,” he noted.

Minister Persaud commissions $10.4M cold storage trucks
-to aid in the export of local produce

In an effort to diversify the agriculture sector and to further assist farmers as it relates to the export of local produce, Government has made available two cold storage trucks as the Ministry of Agriculture continues to promote agriculture diversification, with the aim of positioning Guyana as a major supplier of food.
             It is also in keeping with the Ministry’s ‘Grow More Food Campaign’ which is aimed at increasing production and exports.
            Minister Persaud during the commissioning ceremony at the Sophia packaging facility today, said that the initiative is to allow farmers to significantly boost and fulfill the demands of non-traditional crops in the export market.

Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud and General Manager, New Guyana Marketing Corporation, Nizam Hassan inspect new cold storage trucks at the Sophia packaging facility

            He added that the project which has already seen the installation of a cold storage facility at Parika will provide a readily available service to farmers at a nominal cost to transport agricultural produce for export.
            “We need to see this in the context of what we are doing in terms of agriculture diversification and promoting of agricultural produce and also this feeds in what we are doing overall in our grow more campaign. This is just one component of the overall diversification efforts,” he said.
            The Agriculture Minister, said that the Administration will continue to invest in the economy to ensure that farmers’ livelihood are safeguarded.
            Government has recognised the potential for other crops, livestock and aquaculture in the development of the country and as such has been channelling substantial amounts of resources to provide the necessary infrastructure, technical assistance and training to equipment farmers with necessary skills to explore and venture into new opportunities in the agriculture sector.
            “We are not trying to build the logistics, this is usually done by the exporter or the private sector but we are building that logistics to supply our farmers and I want to thank the Venezuelan Government which has been a very important partner in realizing this component,” he added.

Cold Storage trucks

            The initiative is also aimed at improving the lives of residents of poor rural communities, especially small-scale producers to increase productivity, develop market strategies and business plans for cold chain development.
Government has been working with a number of institutions and the Governments of China and United States through grants and concessional resources so as to significantly increase its exports and output in terms of production.
 The $10.4M cold storage trucks were financed under a non-reimbursable grant from the ALBA funds of the Venezuelan Government. It is part of a project to improve the cold storage chain for non-traditional agriculture produce.