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…Commissioner of Insurance can give no guarantees – Panday Senior insurance broker Bishwa Panday of P&P Insurance Brokers is advising clients that coming out of a meeting with Commissioner of Insurance Maria van Beek it is clear she can give no guarantees on the way forward as to the Financial position of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO).Senior insurance broker Bishwa PandayThe Insurance broker is therefore advising that it would be risky for clients to rely on CLICO to honour any claims that may be made in the future and recommends that coverage be alternatively placed.The meeting between Panday and van Beek occurred on Monday last, some four days after she was appointed Judicial Manager of the Company,Cheap Jerseys Outlet, subject to a court order.This is in stark contrast to pronouncements by President Jagdeo, who said that all of CLICO claims are guaranteed.During a press briefing prior to his departure for a Climate Change conference in Washington DC,Cheap China Jerseys, the president said that persons who have insurance policies at CLICO should continue paying their premiums given that the company could guarantee all claims,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, whether medical or vehicular.“So persons are to continue paying premiums regardless of what they are seeing….Even the cheques that are in limbo and many people who have received these cheques and are waiting just give us a few days more to go through that issue….But know that the money will not be lost…In Guyana people are not going to lose their money.We had no intention to deceive and now that they have sold policies to people the government has taken different steps from the Bahamas.”When contacted for a comment yesterday,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China, Panday told this newspaper’s that he was encouraged by the statements by the President but was still awaiting word from the Commissioner of Insurance on exactly how the guarantees would be realized.According to Panday, he was anxiously awaiting such word, but to date has not heard from the Commissioner.Panday’s advice also comes in the wake of pronouncements by the Alliance for Change that the President, the Finance Minister and Commissioner merely accepted the false status reports from the CEO of CLICO (Guyana),China Soccer Jerseys, who right now should be seeking the services of a competent criminal lawyer.According to the party’s Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan, “The AFC, realizing the trauma this will cause on policyholders, will be setting up a legal team to provide legal services towards finding tangible remedies,Jeff Green Jersey, as far as this is possible, for these policyholders…the AFC will seek to immediately convene a meeting of the Economic Services Committee to have an enquiry into this financial fiasco for purposes of not only settling the issues beyond doubt as to those who were responsible for it, but to make recommendations as to how a crisis like this could be avoided in future.”

Relatives of 33-year-old Damodar Khemraj yesterday helped police identify his body, which washedDamodar Daesrathashore at Perseverance Beach. His body is the third from the ill-fated rescue boat to be found.The remains were identified by Rafeek Khan, the fisherman and boat owner to whose assistance the victims were going when their vessel capsized.Khan said that he recognized Khemraj’s remains by his clothing.The decomposing remains were found by Deonarine Deochand, a villager. He was walking on the beach when he noticed two carrion crows flying unusually low. Deochand said as he looked towards where the birds were heading, he observed the body. Khemraj, called ‘Rackoo’, is a taxi driver from Strathspey,Cheap NFL Jerseys, East Coast Demerara.Also confirmed dead are Kumar Marine of Strathspey, East Coast Demerara,China NFL Jerseys, whose body washed up at Hampton Beach,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Essequibo,Cheap Stitched MLB Jerseys, on Monday and 38-year-old Richard Smith,Cheap Jerseys Outlet, whose remains were found on Wednesday at Devonshire Castle foreshore on the Essequibo Coast.Autopsies performed Thursday on Smith and Narine revealed that they died from drowning.Still missing and feared dead is Shafeek Khan, called ‘Baby’, who is also from Strathspey. The lone survivor is Ganeshwar Reddy, who said he drifted in the water for several hours while clinging to a five-gallon bottle of gasoline.The five men had ventured to the Essequibo Coast last week Saturday with the intention of taking a boat engine and fuel to Rafeek Khan and his crew, who were attacked and robbed by pirates.But the rescue boat capsized in rough waters some 12 miles off Suddie.Fifteen fishermen were attacked and robbed between Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4,NFL Jerseys China, off the Coast of the Pomeroon River.Fishermen who have not ventured out to sea are asking for the resuscitation of the Cooperative Society in Region Two and to be protected by the Coast Guard and police.Villagers retrieve Khemraj’s body from Perseverance BeachLieutenant Commander Orin Porter has reassured fishermen that within two months time a floating base that was constructed for the Pomeroon River will become operable.Porter added that two additional boats will also ply the Pomeroon River.

– raises serious questions about “State-of-the-art” operating theatre at LindenBy Latoya GilesEven as the Ministry of Health is trying to address the problem of maternal deaths,NFL Jerseys China, which has reached troubling proportions, its effort was dealt another blow after a 23-year-old mother of one, from Linden, succumbed hours after delivering a stillborn at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).According to reports, the young woman, Inga Nieuenkirk, died around 20:00hrs on Wednesday in the Intensive Care Unit of the GPHC.The woman’s death raised several serious questions, one being if the Linden Hospital Theatre was indeed functioning why wasn’t the surgery conducted there, instead of bringing the woman to Georgetown.Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday, Kurwyn Greene, the woman’s reputed husband, explained that Nieuenkirk began experiencing labour pains on Tuesday around 23:00hrs.He assisted in taking her to the Linden Hospital Complex.Minutes after his wife’s admission, Greene said nurses told him that they failed to receive any signs that the baby was alright.“They (nurses) told me they weren’t getting heartbeat…so they have to transfer her to the Georgetown Hospital,” Greene explained. He claims that it was the nurses who were doing everything, and a doctor only came after 45 minutes to the hospital – only after being summoned by the same nurses.The man further told this publication that Nieuenkirk left the Linden Hospital Complex sometime around 03:45hrs on Wednesday.Upon her arrival at GPHC she was immediately rushed to the operating theatre.“She was bleeding….but she was still talking to me,” Greene recounted.Greene said he was told by the nurses that he should go home and return at midday since the woman would be in the theatre for some time.He said he returned at lunchtime and his wife was out of the theatre but was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU),NFL Jerseys Outlet, which created some confusion for him. The man said he could not understand what could have gone so wrong within that short space of time.Greene said that when he visited his wife in the Intensive Care Unit she was vomiting and streaks of blood were evident. He said after spending some time at the ICU, he left. Around 20:00hrs on Wednesday, Greene said he received a telephone call from the hospital saying that Nieuenkirk had died.Efforts yesterday to contact the relevant medical officials proved futile.For the past month or so the health ministry has been plagued with an alarming upsurge in maternal deaths.Reports into such deaths at the New Amsterdam and Skeldon Hospitals have shown a number of discrepancies.“Although she was a high-risk maternal patient, no ultrasound was ordered for acting headmistress Esther Dwarka-Bowlin, no blood was available for her when she needed a transfusion, and no doctor was present when she was ready to deliver.”This was one of the many findings in the report.Dwarka-Bowlin died on October 16, last, at the Skeldon Hospital.A report was done also for Nadira Sammy, a 15-year-old from Number 69 Village, Corentyne, who died on September 16; Rebekah Seegobin (also called Rebekha Chinamootoo), 27,Cheap Jerseys Paypal, of Number 36 Village, Corentyne, who also died in September; and Heerawattie Bisham, 21, (also called Yogeeta Bisham), who died on October 20.The report raised several questions about the quality of treatment that the women received.Among the observations made in the report was that high-risk patients were left in the hands of junior doctors, who were unable to handle emergency maternal cases. The report further stated that the patients were left unattended.A similar observation was made during the Guyana Medical Council investigations earlier last year into the deaths of high-risk maternal patients Tricia Winth and Salima Ram at the Linden Hospital and the West Demerara Regional Hospital, respectively. No staffers were disciplined, although investigations revealed that negligence contributed to their demise.At the Georgetown Hospital,NFL Jerseys China, Nurse Charlene Amsterdam, who dedicated 15 years of service to GPHC,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, succumbed two days after undergoing a Caesarean section.Unconfirmed reports had stated that Amsterdam had an ovarian cyst. A source said that during the Caesarian section,NFL Jerseys China, the doctor nicked one of the blood supplies to the cyst (either arterial or venal) and sparked excessive bleeding.The source added that some time later, when the nurses noted the bleeding, they called the doctor who was hesitant to take the woman back into the theatre for corrective surgery.However Head of Medical Services for the GPHC, Dr Madan Rambarran in an interview with this newspaper said that no negligence has been cited for Amsterdam’s death.Meanwhile reports into the investigations surrounding the deaths of maternal patients Monica Carmichael and Miriam Bristol, are expected to be completed by weekend. This was disclosed by a senior official in the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.The two women died hours apart at the GPHC last month.Carmichael, who delivereda stillborn, died one day after undergoing a caesarian section while Bristol died minutes after delivering a healthy baby girl.A post mortem examination conducted on Carmichael revealed that she died from hypovolemic shock (caused by massive loss of blood and other fluids).The examination also showed that the woman suffered from pulmonary embolism (a blockage of the pulmonary artery or a branch of it leading to the lung)Bristol’s post mortem showed that she died from hypovolemic shock and cervical laceration.According to Carmichael’s relatives, the woman was transferred from the New Amsterdam Hospital, because medical staff realised that all was not right with the baby.One relative had said that the baby had died inside of the woman and an emergency surgery had to be done.An aunt further opined that the nurses should have kept monitoring her niece since she was considered to be a high-risk patient.In Bristol’s case, her relatives refuted claims by the hospital which stated that the woman died because she had done multiple c-sections.The hospital in a release had stated that Bristol had a previous caesarian section, and it was a case which posed an increase risk of bleeding.Relatives further said that Bristol spent almost one week at the Linden Hospital Complex.According to them, doctors at the hospital had suggested that Bristol undergo emergency surgery, but the operating theatre was not functional, so she was transferred to GPHC.Some medical sources believe that the lack of experienced staff at the institution and the absence of an obstetrician, are contributing factors to the spate of maternal deaths.The sources believe that there will be more maternity deaths if the situation is not rectified as soon as possible.

An early morning fire yesterday at Vryheid’s Lust South,Cheap NFL Jerseys Stitched, East Coast Demerara, claimed the life of a toddler and left four persons homeless.Reports are that the blaze may have started while the victim, two-year-old Nicholas Maraj, and his three-year-old cousin Anthony Singh, were playing with matches. However, the dead child’s mother, Natasha Maraj, categorically denied this statement, saying that matches were out of the childrens’ reach.Maraj told Kaieteur News yesterday afternoon that her mother, Phulmat Singh,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, would always leave the matches on top of the fridge. Singh said her grandson had been living with her from birth and over the years she had become attached to him. The woman said his death came as a shock to her.“When I lef fuh carry this child (pointing to her granddaughter) to school I didn’t know it would be the last time I woulda see he alive.”Natasha Maraj said she was at her home in Sophia when she got a call saying that her mother’s house was on fire and the whereabouts of her son was unknown. The woman said by the time she and her reputed husband made it to her mother’s Vryheid’s Lust home it was completely gutted, and persons directed her to the charred remains of her son.“I was supposed to come and see him today because he don’t really live with me,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, but I aint mek it in time.”Maraj said her son lived with her mother, sister, niece and nephew.Maraj’s mother, Phulmat Singh said she had left the home earlier in the morning to take her granddaughter to school and was informed of the fire by other relatives.The children’s great grandmother who lives in a house which is located in the same yard said moments before the fire she saw the two children, Nicholas and Anthony, playing in the yard.“Ah bend down fuh do lil wuk and only fuh one second me eye come off ah dem and lil time after meh see de house on fire…meh nah know when dem go in de house.”The woman said she started calling for her great grandsons but only Anthony, the 3 year-old,Wholesale Stitched NFL Jerseys, emerged from the house.She speculated that from where the other child’s body was found he may have gone into the house and fell asleep in a hammock.Meanwhile,Cheap Jerseys Paypal, as news of the fire got around the village scores of persons turned up, some to offer support to the relatives and others to get a glimpse of the dead child. Not long after undertakers from the Lyken Funeral Home arrived on the scene and removed the corpse. As the child’s remains were being taken away relatives sobbed uncontrollably.Undertakers removing the child’s remains From all indications the quick action of fire tenders from LBI saved a building located on the eastern side of the burning structure. Persons from the area had earlier formed a bucket brigade, but that was to no avail with respect to the destroyed building.The owner of the house said she could not give an immediate estimate of her losses but noted that the building was fully furnished with all the necessary amenities. The woman could not say what may have started the fire,China NFL Jerseys, but noted that matches were totally out of the children’s reach.An investigation has been launched.

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Dr Frank Anthony,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, has said that he is convinced that, “Swansea was contracted to provide light and sound for the Carifesta opening, and other events; and since it was not able to do this,Wholesale Jerseys China, the matter is with the Attorney General’s Chambers.”The minister added that since Swansea was not able to provide this service, the ministry was under the impression that it was a legal matter.And commenting on the staffing for CARIFESTA, he said: “Some were paid employees and some were volunteers,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, and coordinating that number of people will always be a challenge.” He added that, to his mind,Jerseys NFL Cheap, coordinating that many persons would prove difficult.He added that approximately 98 percent of Carifesta participants have been paid, but,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, “Most persons, whom we owed have been paid. There might have been one or two things which we might have needed to clarify. (For) The other two percent, we are sorting out the issues we have with those payments.“I don’t see that as a major problem.” There are reportedly duplicated invoices,Kurt Warner Cardinals Jersey, and things of that manner.

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A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) at a recent press briefing accused the PPP/C Government of being complacent towards corruption and crime hence the reason there is sloth in putting the steps in place to facilitate the passage of the Anti Money Laundering legislation as well as fighting the narcotics trade and security locally.Leader of the Opposition David GrangerOpposition leader David Granger stated that government knows of the criminal elements who launder money, as well as those involved in drug trafficking,Cheap Jerseys Online, but have been reluctant to do anything over the years dating back “throughout the reign of President Jagdeo.”“The government probably has a good idea who is involved in laundering money and the government has no intention of stopping it.” In reiterating his point,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Granger made reference to drug trafficking stating that “government does not have an anti narcotics control plan at present, it expired in 2011, so for two years we have not had an anti narcotics plan.”The Opposition leader listed examples which he says highlight a pattern of approach the government has towards several issues he sees affecting Guyana significantly. According to Granger “the Government of Guyana signed a security sector action plan with the Government of the United Kingdom and then refused to implement it. “A multibillion dollar programme the government refused to implement… that’s the security sector reform plan” Granger reiterated.According to Granger,Wholesale Jerseys Online, the government also had a National Drug Strategy Master plan which it never implemented,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, “it has lapsed and it has up to now not been able to implement a new National Drug Strategy Master plan.”He continued to outline that “the government had the Anti Money Laundering and Countering of Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT) for four years, even if we wanted to trace it back to thirteen years it has never been fully implemented so the pattern is emerging.”That pattern he states is that “the government is tolerant of certain crimes even though we know that there are armed robberies taking place in Guyana every day.”Granger explained that government’s attempt to implement a security plan through the Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee was not adequate to suit its purpose. According to Granger “there’s no security sector reform plan in action, Mr. Rohee announced a plan on the 31st of December last year, a plan that is committed to public relations,Jerseys NFL China, administer reform and officer career planning. The private sector is saying that the APNU must support that. Support what? It doesn’t stop armed robbery,Jerseys NFL Cheap, it doesn’t stop piracy, it doesn’t stop banditry and it doesn’t stop drug smuggling. So the plan that he announced on the 31st of December last year nobody is talking about it now because they know it’s a bogus plan.”He stated that for this reason the AML/CFT was not passed among other policies geared towards development.  “So you may ask the same question why does the government not have an anti narcotics trafficking plan and smuggling is taking place?. The government knows or it says it knows who is doing the smuggling and has no intention of going after the big fish… The point I’m making is that the government is quite aware of the criminal nature of enterprises taking place and is content not to do anything” said Granger.

A Kaneville, East Bank Demerara resident and his wife are now subjects of a murder investigation after the man stabbed and killed his wife’s cousin, who they are claiming attempted to burglarize their home early yesterday morning.Ramatar, also known as Jason Edwards, was stabbed to his neck and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).Dead: Darson RamatarHis attacker was identified as his cousin-in-law, was taken into custody along with his wife, hours after Ramatar was murdered.The incident took place a few corners away from where Ramatar lived.According to the police,Wholesale China Jerseys, at about 03:00 hours yesterday, Ramatar, a miner of Lot 723 Third Field, Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD), along with four other men, is reported to have attempted to break into a home at Kaneville.The police said that during the burglary, Ramatar was stabbed to his throat and a male resident of the home is assisting the police with the investigations.The dead man’s immediate family is adamant,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, however,China Jerseys Free Shipping, that he was murdered during a confrontation at the detained couple’s residence, where there was a party.Two individuals claiming to be eyewitnesses alleged that Ramatar was at the party when he became involved in an argument with a man over the purchase of alcohol.A scuffle broke out and the man stabbed Ramatar to the neck. Afterwards, the assailant reportedly told other guests to tell the police that the 24-year-old was slain while attempting to break into the house.When police arrived at the scene, they reportedly found Ramatar lying in a crouched position in the eastern side of yard, with injuries to his throat and lips. They also observed that a lock at the southern door on the house appeared to have been tampered with.One of the windows that was allegedly tamperedWhen Kaieteur News visited the scene yesterday afternoon, most of the neighbours were at a lost as to what could have transpired. They said the cousins were earlier eating and imbibing together at a small party held for the assailant’s wife.Kaieteur News understands that there were about six persons, including the home owner, his wife, children and another person, in the house at the time of the alleged attempted burglary.Jimmy Thomas, who was also at the house at the time, told this publication that they were celebrating a birthday but later retired to bed. He said a few hours later, about five persons invaded the property.According to him, they cut the electrical wire leading to the property and the telephone lines. He claimed too that two window meshes had been removed.Thomas told Kaieteur News, however, that they were aroused by a commotion outside. By the time he and the homeowner got out, most of the gang had scurried away. He said that the homeowner managed to corner Ramatar as he attempted to scale the fence.“Me brother-in-law catch one of them and bore him straight to he throat and kill he,” Thomas added. Thomas said that they later realised the deceased was his cousin.He said they had not been able to see the faces of the other men,Authentic Arizona Cardinals Jersey, since the house was plunged into darkness. “Is rob he come to rob this place. Look at the windows,Cheap China Jerseys,” he said, pointing to the window mesh that lay on the ground.Thomas was sure that the homeowner was at the time uncertain of whom it was that he attacked. He said that he and Ramatar had just returned from the interior but “He does follow bad company. They influence he to come and rob, they probably think we got the load.”Meanwhile the dead man’s aunt, Felice Edwards maintained that it was an act of coldblooded murder and not a burglary attempt as her other relatives had claimed. She said that earlier that evening, she had gone to the party.“It was a lil family gathering and the men were drinking,” Edwards said, adding that she subsequently left and went home. She stated that later that morning she received a call from her niece who claimed that Ramatar had cut the electricity lines, scaled their fence and tried to break into her house.“She said you better come and move him right now. I want you come and move him from here right now because them boys beat him up bad. She never tell me them stab him to his throat.”Despite the downpour at the time, she went to her the couple’s house. “When I reach there, her husband come to the gate with a brown handle knife in he hand. He brother-in-law come and he had a black handle knife in his hand and I know they murder my nephew.”As she explained how Ramatar’s grief-stricken reputed wife and the rest of the family are, Edwards said “My nephew is not that person. My nephew don’t thief. He is not, never, ever.” She said that her daughter who left the party at 01:30 hours reported that Ramatar was already in a drunken state but despite efforts to take him home, he did not want to leave the party.“You know what the neighbours them say? The neighbours them say they had on the music loud and then there was screaming in the house, big screaming, fighting and cussing and so. Then they turn off the music,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, that is when it done happen. That is why I saying they murdered my nephew.”She believes that Ramatar was killed in the house and then “they dragged him and put him out there like he is a bandit.” The woman is contending that her nephew was drunk at the time and could not have attempted any robbery.

Flooding in the Meadow Bank,Authentic Jerseys Cheap, East Bank Demerara area is caused by fishing boats preventing access to the canal’s koker to facilitate desilting work,NFL Jerseys China, says Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall.Water has lodged in residents’ yards,China Jersyes Cheap, posing a danger to the health of the residents especially the children. Minister of Local Government and Regional Development,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Kellawan Lall,Cheap NFL Jerseys, visited the area this afternoon to assess the impact of the flooding.He stated that the boats cannot remain in the canal and advised that the fishermen meet with the Minister of Agriculture to come to a permanent solution.Desilting of the canal is an urgent matter since heavy rainfall would cause more flooding in the area. The fishing boats are expected to evacuate the area tonight so that a pontoon can access the canal to desilt it.By yesterday,Cheap World Cup Jerseys, machinery was there clearing the canal.Government is making continuous investments to facilitate the repair and cleaning of canals countrywide to facilitate proper drainage.

In a move sure to garner approval from civil society movements and organisations fighting for the rights of victimsChief Justice Ian Changof sexual violence,  the Court of Appeal has granted the State’s motion for stay of execution in the recent ruling by Chief Justice Ian Chang (ag), who deemed paper committals under the Sexual Offences Amendment Act 2010 unlawful and unconstitutional.This means that the order by the Chief Justice is now halted, pending the resolution of this appeal. The Appeal Court’s decision comes after Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, filed a request asking it to put a halt on the CJ’s decision while he pursues an appeal.Chang’s ruling had stemmed from a successful challenge to the Act by Attorney-at-Law Murseline Bacchus. He argued against a Magistrate’s decision to commit his client to stand trial in the High Court under the Act.Bacchus, on behalf of his client, had moved to the court for an order or rule nisi of certiorari directed to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the Commissioner of Police and Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus herself, to show cause why her decision to commit his client to stand trial for the offence of rape, should not be quashed on the grounds that the committal is null, void, unlawful and unconstitutional.In his petition, Bacchus had submitted that he was not permitted cross-examination of the witness whose statements were filed by the Prosecution,Wholesale Jerseys China, nor was his client permitted to give evidence or call any witness in the proceedings before he was committed.After listening to arguments from all sides,Cheap Jerseys Supply, on November 14, last, Chang said that paper committals under the Sexual Offences Act, are unlawful as the accused is given no opportunity to defend him or herself in the Magistrate’s Court, which is a breach of one’s constitutional rights.According to the Sexual Offences Act, no witnesses are required to attend the Magistrates’ Court to give evidence, and theAttorney General,Anil NandlallMagistrate would make a verdict based on statements provided by the virtual complainant, investigating ranks and the complainant’s medical report and birth certificate.However, Chang’s ruling noted that the Magistrate acted in violation of the Applicant’s rights under Article 144 (2) (d) and (e) when she disallowed cross-examination of the makers of prosecution witness statements, tendered against the applicant in the preliminary inquiry.It goes on to say that an accused/defendant {d} shall be permitted to defend himself or herself before the court in person or by a legal representative of his or her own choice and {e} Shall be afforded facilities to examine in person or by his or her legal representative, the witnesses called by the prosecution before the court,NFL Jerseys From China, and to obtain the attendance and carry out the examination of witnesses to testify on his behalf before the court on the same conditions as those applying to witnesses called by the prosecution.These rights, Chang says, were violated.On November 25, last,Cheap Jerseys, Nandlall filed an appeal to the decision; and also sought to have a stay of execution of the judgment. This was granted by Justice B.S Roy in the appeal court on Tuesday.The AG and Deputy Solicitor General, Prithima Kissoon,Cheap Stitched MLB Jerseys, appeared for the Magistrate, the DPP and the Top Cop while Attorney-at-Law Perry Gossai appeared for the respondent/applicant, holding for Bacchus.The Attorney General relied on written submissions which were laid over with the Court and the respondent, and in addition made oral submissions. Nandlall submitted that the Appeal filed has every likelihood of success, and cited several cases to support that contention.The AG emphasized that the Magistrate acted lawfully, within her jurisdiction and scrupulously complied with the Sexual Offences Act in committing the accused.He pointed out that the CJ erred by quashing the Magistrate’s ruling on the ground that the Act was unconstitutional, since that was not an issue for which the Court was properly moved to determine and further, that was not an issue canvassed before the Magistrate.He pointed to the fact that there is a clear and settled procedure by which legislations are challenged for want of constitutionality contending, that the will of Parliament cannot be struck down by a side wind through a collateral challenge.Nandlall added that as a result of the ruling, all of the committal proceedings already completed by Magistrates across Guyana since the last amendment of the Act in 2013, may now be invalid based on this ruling and therefore may have to be done de novo.This, he said, would create an overwhelming backlog for Sexual Offence cases.  The Attorney General urged the Court to not only consider the right of the accused as guaranteed by the Constitution, but the rights of all the victims of sexual offences. He said that the victim’s rights to have a determination of the guilt of the persons accused of the heinous offences stood in abeyance because of Chang’s decision.He urged the Court to be cognizant that the Court’s pivotal function is to strike that vital but delicate balance between two competing interests: in this case that of the victorious party and that of the victims of sexual offences.After listening to the arguments of both attorneys, the stay of execution was granted.As Justice Roy delivered his ruling, he remarked, “It is well established that this court has an unfettered discretion to order a stay of an order under appeal if the justice of the case demands it.”“In a case in which the question of ordering of a stay arises, the role of the court is to make the order that best accords with interest of justice. Where there is a risk of harm to one party or the other,cheap nfl jerseys online, whichever order is made, the court has to balance the alternatives and make a decision as to the course which is likely to occasion the least injustice.”