Guyana News

St Rose’s High out-argued Aurora Secondary School yesterday when the annual JOF Haynes Memorial Inter-Secondary Schools Debating Competition was launched at the Theatre Guild in Kingston.

Having failed to apply to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) by June 2015, Guyana is now aiming to make an application next year.

Treatment of refugees, border security, deportation, gun amnesties, territorial sovereignty and potential for economic development were among the issues addressed yesterday when Vice President and Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan met Australian High Commissioner to Guyana Ross Tysoe.

Several nurses received awards recently when the Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) held its annual awards ceremony at the GNA Hall, Charlotte & Alexander Streets, Lacytown.

City residents are being asked to get involved in the National Tree Planting Day set for October 3.

Former public works minister Robeson Benn and Attorney Bibi Shadick were sworn in on Tuesday at the Ministry of the Presidency to represent the opposition PPP on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

(Trinidad Express) THREE women were freed from a house in Arouca yesterday after detectives uncovered a human-trafficking ring in the area.

The Ministry of Communities says it is working to clear a backlog of approximately 25,000 applications for land titles and transport, GINA reported today.

About fifty families at Zorg-en-Hoop, West Bank Berbice, are to be relocated to a safer area since their houses are directly under a 69KV power line, GINA said today.

The police today said that Don Peters, Michael Mc Donald and Tiagio Da Silva are wanted for escaping from lawful custody at Lethem Police Station on September 17, 2015.

A Ministry of the Presidency press release today said that there had been no increase in Guyanese troops at the Venezuelan border.

 – Granger to focus on issue at UN In the wake of reports of Venezuela’s deployment of military troops to this country’s western border, the Guyana Government yesterday urged citizens to be alert yet remain calm as it continues to monitor the situation.

A Corentyne mother is seeking answers from the Anamayah Memorial Hospital in Berbice, which says she delivered a baby girl via a C-section earlier this month after it told her that she had been carrying twins.

The former public service minister was personally involved in selecting students and members of the public service for scholarship awards and training programmes, according to Soyinka Grogan, Manager of the Scholarship Department of the former Public Service Ministry.

President David Granger yesterday said he is still confident that unity talks between the government and the opposition can materialize and he is not worried about a recent statement by General Secretary of the PPP Clement Rohee who said that his party had not agreed to the talks.

Ryan Bobb-Semple, the man accused of murdering nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens, has been determined mentally fit to stand trial.

Arguments yesterday began on whether the elections petition filed by the opposition PPP/C’s Ganga Persaud has material facts in order for the case to proceed.

A murder investigation has been launched by the police following the results of the post-mortem examinations conducted on the bodies of two Brazilians found in a swamp in Aramau Backdam, Cuyuni River, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

A Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) employee lost his life on the Albion public road on Monday night whilst he was on his way home from work.

Rohan Persaud, who claimed he found his friend dead outside of his yard, was yesterday charged with the man’s murder.