Teen on pedal cycle killed in collision with minibus at Diamond

A 14-year-old pedal cyclist died on Tuesday evening shortly after he was involved in a collision with a minibus along the Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara and his mother is calling for justice. Dead is Mark McKoy called “Markie” of Lot 561 Cinema Street, Diamond, East Bank Demerara and a student of Dolphin Secondary School. The accident occurred around 7 pm on Tuesday and McKoy was taken to the Diamond Hospital in an unconscious state where he succumbed while receiving medical attention the said evening. Mark Mc Koy

The APNU+AFC Government yesterday faced more embarrassing questions about a controversial bond deal when a parliamentary showdown resulted in an impromptu visit to the Sussex Street site and not a single tablet was seen by the MPs on the mission.

PPP/C MP Anil Nandlall initiated the drama in the National Assembly when he claimed during his budget presentation that the government was paying $14 million per month for the Sussex Street bond where “not a tablet is being stored”. Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton, who had acknowledged lying to Parliament several months ago on the bond deal, then challenged him to withdraw his statement since he said it was not true.

An uproar in the House followed and government members chanted “withdraw.” After the noise died down the Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland asked Norton if he was saying that medication is stored at the bond to which Norton replied and said : “Yes, Mr. Speaker.” Norton’s response sent the members of the opposition into a frenzy and they all started to call on him to prove that medication was being stored in the bond.