Guyana News

The intended supplier of urea fertiliser worth $420m is based in Long Island, New York according to Guyana Rice Producers Association (GRPA) General Secretary Dharamkumar Seeraj.

While former president Donald Ramotar says he believes justice has been served, top government officials and other interested parties have opted to remain mum on the findings of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) until the final report is officially released.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj This week’s feature on Kuru Kururu came about by way of a detour.

After finding that the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force were both complicit in aiding and abetting soldier Gregory Smith in the killing of political activist and scholar Dr Walter Rodney, the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) set up to investigate his death has recommended that every effort should be made to ensure that both agencies are professional.

Even though the conduct of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is being heavily criticized, both Minister of State Joseph Harmon and Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan have expressed satisfaction with the work that has been done so far.

The Region Nine administration is examining a number of long-term plans such as water harvesting to ensure that villages across the sprawling savannah region are supplied with water even during prolonged droughts.

Lindener Lester ‘De Professor’ Charles was yesterday morning crowned the 2016 Calypso Monarch when the competition concluded at the Demerara Park before an attentive audience.

Government had expected that outgoing Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang would rule that ministers Keith Scott and Winston Felix could not sit as non-elected members in the National Assembly and had already started preparations to deal with the judgement.

The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) says government has failed its community particularly in representation of having cross dressing decriminalized as persons continue to be charged under the archaic law.

In the light of the ongoing drought, the Guyana Rice Producers Association (GRPA) says that the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary/Agricultural Develop-ment Authority (MMA/ADA) is taking the wrong approach in regulating water.

A contractor is currently nursing a gunshot injury to his right leg after he was attacked and robbed of $250,000 just before paying his employees at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

Several civil society groups are calling on the local media to use a responsible and careful approach when reporting on sensitive issues like suicide.

The Women’s Association for Sustainable Develop-ment (WASD), a newly launched non-governmental organisation and Oxygen with Nicole will host two events on March 5 and 6 respectively at the Pegasus Hotel as part of the local observance of International Women’s Day.

PPP MP Gail Teixeira has written the Norwegian government over allegations made by Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman that the former PPP/C government had assigned all productive forests.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell says the West Indies Cricket Board has failed to properly address the development of players following youth level, and has dismissed the idea that the success of West Indies youth teams can be attributed to them alone.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Influential former West Indies Players Union boss, Dinanath Ramnarine, has thrown his support behind CARICOM’s decision to insist on the dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board and believes the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board should lead the way in the process.

Historian Dr Walter Rodney was the victim of a State-organised assassination on June 13th, 1980 and this could only have been possible with the knowledge of then PNC Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, the Commission of Inquiry (coI) into his death has found.

Former acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has ruled that APNU+AFC ministers Winston Felix and Keith Scott cannot continue to sit as non-elected members in the National Assembly since they were both elected as part of the coalition’s list of national candidates.

The four men who were held earlier this week in connection with the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing are also being investigated for their alleged involvement in an assault on former Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Power & Light Inc (GPL) Aeshwar Deonarine, which occurred in 2012.

Citing its “poor financial health”, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has threatened to halt reaping of the first crop if the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) goes ahead with planned strike action.