Pensioner dies after being found unconscious in car

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Pensioner dies after being found unconscious in car

December 23, 2010

A PENSIONER has died after being found unconscious at the wheel of his car,?which had?come to a stop in the middle of a main road in East Horsley.

His blue Rover 214 was found stationary by other motorists just before the Bell and Colvill Roundabout on the A246, shortly after 9.30am on Wednesday (December 22).

The 82-year-old man was unconscious in the driver's seat. He was taken to the Royal Surrey County Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Police said he had been driving towards Guildford.

Anyone who?may have followed the car on the Epsom Road and saw it come to a stop should contact officers on 0845 125 2222, quoting reference P10396243.

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Billions held in special accounts not being transferred to coffers– AG Report

Auditor General Deodat Sharma

“The Contingencies Fund continued to be abused with amounts totalling $1.992B drawn from the Fund being utilised to meet expenditure that did not meet the eligibility criteria as defined in the Act.”
This is according to the most recently tabled Auditor General’s Report which documents the audit on the public accounts of the Ministries, Departments and Regions for 2009.
The report also stated that there were 11 special accounts which have some $4.7B which was supposed to have been transferred.
Another $12.6B is also being held in special accounts for Ministries/Department Accounts which were also not transferred to the Consolidated Fund.
The audit also revealed that the old Consolidated Fund bank account was overdrawn by $46.823B as at December 31, 2009; and the new Consolidated Fund Bank account was overdrawn by $2.292B.
As has been pointed out in previous reports there is still a significant amount of overpayments to contractors.
The report found that the overpayments to contractors totaled some $99.151M and occurred on measured works for contracts undertaken by Ministries, Departments and Regions. Of this amount, $73.363M was in respect of previous years while $25.788M was in respect of the year under review.
According to the Auditor General, noticeable among the overpayments are amounts of $17.997M, $16.920M and $14.445M, with respect to the Ministry of Education, Region Two, and Region Ten, respectively.
“More so, these entities are facing serious challenges in the quest to recover the amounts overpaid…Even more troubling is the perceived managerial inaction in relation to this troubling trend, since there was no evidence to suggest that disciplinary action of any kind have been meted out to engineering or other staff involved in the assessment of works in progress and the certification of progress payments.”
The Auditor General also pointed out that several breaches of Tender Board Procedures occurred, especially in Region Four and at the Guyana Elections Commission, where contracts were subdivided in order to avoid adjudication at certain Tender Board levels.
“Also, quotations from suppliers were falsified to facilitate the awarding of contracts to specific persons, and purchases were made from individuals that were not considered to be established suppliers…As a result, fraudulent practices to the value of $11.2M were perpetuated on the Regional Administration for Region 4,” for 2009.
An issue which has attracted a lot of controversy in the past has resurfaced again.
It was found by the Auditor General that a sum of $1.404B was paid to New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited on the basis of sole sourcing approved by National Procurement and Tender
Administration Board, and not by competitive bidding as required under the Procurement Act (2003).
The transactions with the firm were for the procurement of drugs and medical supplies.
It was also found that the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation also procured drugs and medical supplies at a cost of $731.024M, based on awards of 13 contracts by National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, without a system of competitive bidding as required under the Procurement Act (2003).
It was found also that the slow processing of pay change directives in several Ministries and mainly in the Regions, resulted in overpayments of salary totalling some $64.215M, including related deductions amounting to $14.975M, that were paid over to various agencies.
The Auditor General reported that of these amounts, $54.853M and $11.025M, respectively were in respect of previous years.
“Ministries, Departments and Regions have faced serious challenges in recovering such sums, particularly because banking institutions require authorisations from account holders to do so and statutory agencies, such as, the Guyana Revenue Authority and National Insurance Scheme have not fully complied with requests to refund sums overpaid.”
The Auditor General also said that the State Planning Commission, which was to have been dissolved several years ago and its operations transferred to the Ministry of Finance, continues to be in existence and has the status of a separate legal entity.
Although the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority operate as separate legal entities, they continue to receive appropriations instead of subventions from Government in contravention of the requirement of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act, the AG noted.

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Man dies after being hit by truck in Walton

AN elderly man was overthrown and killed by a truck at Walton Thursday morning.

The accident took place in the street of the Church at 9.20 suis.La road with Hepworth Way autour, was closed for several hours, while agents carried out their investigations, with drivers said to avoid the area until that roads have been reopened shortly before 1300.

The pedestrian was delivered at the scene.

A worker at postoffice on the street of the said Church one of its customers has witnessed following the collision of heavy goods vehicles.

"She was so traumatized, it was shocking and I have never seen so many police here in my life", she says.

"She just to put a blanket on the body."

"It says that the man moved as if he saw the truck and then just hit truck."

"I cannot imagine what is arrivé.Juste think now just gives me goose, buttons such as shock."

Chris Bavin, who leads the grocer nu in Bridge Street, said: "Yes, it cause some minor our deliveries disadvantages because they had to go for alternative pathways."

"But it is next to nothing at the who arrived to this Mr."

"Our thoughts go out to him and his famille.Des things like this just put things in perspective.

Councillor David Archer, Member of the cabinet of Elmbridge roads and transport, which is passed to Walton Thursday, and he said: "it is a bad question jonction.Sans, it serves not pedestrians actually well and should be examined again by the Council of County of Surrey.".

"This is a tragédie.Mes condolences go out to the family."

Surrey Police said: "officers are particularly keen to hear any person who saw the pedestrian or vehicle prior to the collision, or anyone who has witnessed the incident, but left the scene before arrived it agents."

Anyone with information should contact on 01483 639922 collision investigation unit.

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Girl dies after being hit by falling tree in the garden

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Girl dies after being hit by falling tree in the garden

21 October 2010.

A 10-year-OLD girl died after a tree fell on it in Fetcham Wednesday.

The girl playing back in the village garden when she was struck by the tree falling just after 4 pm.

It leads to the Surrey Air Ambulance and paramedics called to the scene, where the young person had had a heart attack.

It was resurrected in ambulance on the way to the County of Surrey Royal in Guildford Hospital but later died.

His death is under consideration, but are not treate as a suspect.

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