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Sticky Fingers...these criminals are operating right under the nose of the police....wait this is the Security Agent?  ;D ;D ;D

Airport security officer fired for stealing passenger’s money

October 21, 2015 | By KNews | Filed Under News 

A local Aviation Security agent attached to a private company contracted by an airline has been fired for stealing a quantity of US currency from an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).
According to a statement from the CJIA, the female officer was processing the passenger at Gate 1 around 17:21 hrs on Friday, October 16, 2015,  when she ‘swiped’ the cash from the passenger’s wallet, and placed it in one of her gloves.
“When the victim realized the money was missing, she immediately alerted staff in the vicinity. The cash was found and returned to the passenger.  “The incident was reported to CJIA’s management by a relative of the passenger on October 18, 2015 and an internal investigation was immediately launched. The airport’s security footage corroborates the sequence of events.
“Meanwhile, the head of CJIA’s Security Department was in contact with the passenger’s relative, and yesterday, October 19, 2015 the said relative was informed of the investigation’s finding and action taken against the security officer. The matter is now in the hands of the police.”
The CJIA statement was released on the same day that a letter from the victim appeared in the Kaieteur News.
The woman had stated that she was about to board flight BW526 when a female security officer called her over for “a random security check.”
“She asked me to place my two bags (one overnight bag and the other my pocketbook) on the counter. She barely opened the overnight bag and put just one hand on top and asked me to close it.”
The security officer then reportedly proceeded to open the passenger’s pocketbook, and asked her if she had a cell phone.
“I responded, ‘Yes’, (and) she asked me to turn it on. I did so, then she asked me to turn it off. While I was occupied, she had both hands in my pocketbook, but I never thought that she was about to steal all my U.S. dollars,” the passenger stated.
“I became suspicious because she was fumbling with her gloves. I noticed her pulling off the top gloves and still had on another pair of gloves. When she handed my pocketbook back to me, I decided to check for my money. It was completely gone. I told her that I can’t find my money and it alerted me to the gloves she was fumbling with.
“I noticed her getting nervous, so I went with my gut and grabbed the gloves on her table. Lo and behold, there was all my U.S. dollars in her gloves. I quickly turned around to the officers that were at the door of the boarding gate and showed them this alarming evidence of theft. She kept saying, “I did not change my gloves, I did not change my gloves,” the letter stated.
The passenger stated that airport personnel were alerted “and all reacted shocked and stunned at what had just happened.”
“At this point, the thieving young lady who was employed to protect me, looked as though she had seen a ghost and was sweating.
“I am beyond distraught and disgusted by the actions of this young lady. I served as a Customs Officer for 16 years and I feel violated in my own country,” the passenger had stated in the letter.

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Back to the good ole GDF days...

www.guyanatimesgy.com/2015/10/21/135865/

Ramjaat#$ is now the religious leader of the Hindus in Guyana? Damn that is a twist. 

I wonder what the hiring process is at the Georgetown Mayor's office...this looks like an uninformed bredda. he didn't know the amnesty ended...so he was taking the gun tot he po-lice station, leave or believe. ;D ;D ;D


21-Y-O remanded for illegal gun, ammo

October 20, 2015 4:02 pm Category: Crime  A+ / A- 

[www.inewsguyana.com] – Twenty – one – year old Natalon Martin of East La Penitance, Georgetown accused of possession of firearm and ammunition, was remanded to prison, after he stood before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to the offenses.

It is alleged that on October 17, 2015 at East La Penitance, Georgetown, he had in his possession one .32 Pistol and 6 live rounds of .32 ammunition without being the holder of a firearm license.

Martin pleaded not guilty to both charges. The man is employed as a laborer at the Georgetown Mayor and City Council and was remanded to prison.

He is scheduled to make his next court appearance on November 4.

Guyana gone to the dogs. Chair...you better sell the rice fields you have left...no more rice planting. And you have to try and bring that money backtrack. Lemme know if you need help. I have good connections...

What the people say:

Ariel Pindar: ‘Since [Vice President Khemraj] Ramjattan and his fellow AFC members joined hands with APNU to form the coalition, I said that there had to be a catch within this thing. With the vendetta they had against the PPP/C, they wanted to become president and now they want to get presidential pay and certain privileges. I don’t know if it’s just to spite the PPP/C but I think they should have at least waited a little before they introduced the increase. It’s just plain and blatant ignorance and maliciousness.’

Susan Collymore: ‘Two and a half months ago Raphael Trotman said that ministers would not have any raise of pay but now, two months after, here it is they’re having an extravagant raise of pay. So what they’re actually telling the public is that it’s okay; you can live on $50,000 a month and do all that you have to do. Meanwhile, Minister [of State Joseph] Harmon blatantly said that he has no apologies to make to the public and they’re basically saying that $50,000 a month could manage poor people. Now you have the pensioners who’re receiving $17,000 and then when you take off all the subsidies, they have nothing. So what are you telling them? That they can live on $17,000 when you went on the television and said, “I can’t live on $500,000 because that’s what I was paying my assistant when I was a legal advisor.” And now you’re saying that it’s okay for a pensioner to live on $17,000 and pay their light bill and water bill even if they have rent to pay and still feed themselves. Then you’re also saying that it’s okay for public servants to pay their rent, send their children to school, and have additional expenses when you’re having all duty-free concessions and other things like that? It can’t work.’

I can't make this stuff up folks. Our GOG is its own comedy of errors. Jokers on the stage. 

Can't these guys get anything/one thing/something right for a change???

Mid-Year Report “flawed” – Dr Luncheon

October 21, 2015 By GuyanaTimes


…Guyana’s oil prices tied to PetroCaribe, not world market

Former Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon has described as “flawed” the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance

For Change (APNU/AFC) Administration’s analysis regarding the fluctuation of oil prices on the world market and how the benefits were passed down to the public here.
The recently-released Mid-Year Economic Report said that under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Administration, the benefits of the global decline in petroleum products were not being passed on to the consuming public.
It also stated that while overall “Customs and trade tax collections remained stable at $5.9 billion, in the first half of 2015… Excise tax collections totalled $15.2 billion, an increase of $2.9 billion. This resulted from a $3.2 billion increase from petroleum products.”
The report continued, “Increases in petroleum products were due to increase in excise tax rates applicable on imports of gasoline and diesel oil in 2015 when compared to the rates applicable in 2014. During the period January to June 2014, the excise tax rates applicable on gasoline and diesel oil were 20 per cent and 15 per cent respectively as compared to 50 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, from January 20 to June 31, 2015.”
This essentially means that the previous Administration had more than doubled the taxes on gasoline (20 per cent to 50 per cent) and increased by almost 100 per cent the taxes on diesel (25 per cent to 45 per cent).
But in an invited comment, Dr Luncheon rubbished this claim, noting that while the Government’s analysis may seem reasonable, Guyana was not purchasing fuel from the world market and as such, the domestic price for petroleum products has to be taken in the context of the PetroCaribe Agreement, where Guyana and other Caribbean countries were buying fuel from Venezuela at a concessionary rate.
He explained that when world market prices skyrocketed, signatories to the PetroCaribe Agreement were still enjoying relatively low oil prices. As such, he said it would have been unreasonable to ask the Venezuelans to lower their price when world market prices declined, adding that the agreement had a direct impact on the fuel price adjustments locally.
The APNU/AFC Administration has been continuing with the policy of excise tax adjustment although since the change in Government, the economy has flattened out and badly needs stimuli from all quarters to get it moving upwards.
Dr Luncheon said the new Government was now in a better position to lower the excise tax rate on fuel, since the PetroCaribe Agreement with Venezuela has collapsed and Guyana would now be procuring its fuel at the current low world market prices.
Cheaper fuel will significantly bolster productivity in the manufacturing sector; reduce the input cost in the agriculture sector, including for rice and other crops, and help to jump-start the ailing local economy by allowing for a greater circulation of cash.
Many businesses bypass the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) and generate their own electricity, and lower fuel prices would have a direct buoyant effect. GPL bought most of its fuel from Suriname at the world market cheap prices, and it also was allowed to make huge profits, since its rates were approved by the Public Utilities Commission two years ago when fuel was more than two-and a half times costlier.
All of these pressures have helped to dampen business activity in comparison to competing economies even in the Region.
To add salt to the fuel ‘wound’, the Mid-Year Report also revealed that Guyoil, which was formed specifically to induce competition in the consumer petroleum market by selling gasoline at the cheapest possible prices, also refused to pass on savings at the gas pump and raked in record amounts.

Funnneeee....