Guyana News

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) holds close the indomitable spirit, bravery and sacrifice of national heroine Kowsilla, on the 50th anniversary of her death.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is hopeful that findings of the long overdue  Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of the late Dr Walter Rodney, will bring closure to a very painful and embarrassing episode in the national and political history.

Police say that at about 1030h  today, they were alerted concerning four men along with a parked motor car and motor cycle in the vicinity the Rubis Gas Station at Mc Doom, EBD.

The Guyana Human Rights Association today said it won’t be participating in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the killing of Dr Walter Rodney.

At about 0515h.  today,  the police say that Inshan Ramlakhan, 21 years, of Mon Repos, ECD, was walking along the Railway Embankment, Blygezight, Georgetown, when he was attacked by a man armed with a handgun.

Although the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is confident that it will be ready to hold local government polls 180 days after a date is set by the local government minister, sources say it is unlikely that it can meet the August 1 deadline recently set by the National Assembly.

Caricom Heads of Government have agreed to discuss UWI’s decision to not guarantee UG’s 2014 batch of law graduates placement at the Hugh Wooding Law School when they meet this weekend, GINA says.

-boat owner’s membership suspended, workers banned from complex The owner of a Corentyne boat that was robbed by a Guyanese fishing crew in Coronie, Suriname last month is denying that she has accepted compensation, although no report was made in the neighbouring country.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) has identified $200M to start works on the construction of a two-storey maternity hospital for women and children.

The body of a 14-year-old boy was discovered on a street at Foulis, East Coast Demerara yesterday and it is believed that he was the victim of a vehicular accident.

A businessman was fined $20,000 by a city magistrate yesterday after he admitted to verbally abusing and threatening alleged police rape victim Colwyn Harding.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is back home from the United States where he sought medical treatment for an ailment.

The main opposition APNU is convinced that government is sabotaging the work of the select committee on the anti-money laundering amendment bill after Chief Parliamentary Counsel (CPC) Cecil Dhurjon again failed produce a legal draft of the coalition’s proposed amendments.

Del Monte Foods in California has hired a local attorney to file charges against the company that has allegedly been manufacturing counterfeit Del Monte gold and white corn, said Andrew King, Managing Director of official distributor, Toucan Industries.

A single mother of three, fingered by her friend for an alleged gunpoint robbery, was yesterday remanded to prison along with two others despite indications from the prosecutor that she had been wrongfully charged with the crime.

An Indian national escaped punishment for assaulting his Guyanese partner yesterday after she decided to offer no evidence against him.

Senior citizens may be able to uplift their pensions using their machine readable identification by 2016 as the Human Services and Social Security Ministry plans to scale-back the Pension Scheme’s dependence on the coupon system.

A fire of unknown origin on Tuesday gutted the home of a Lower Pomeroon River woman destroying all her belongings.

Works on a section of the Canal No.2 Polder road, which runs parallel to the village access road, have been completed and engineers, are awaiting the results of its compaction test, said the Chief Road and Bridges Officer Ron Rahaman.

The Permanent Represen-tatives of Guyana and Norway have been appointed by the  President of the United Nations General Assembly to heada UN process on financing for development, a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs  said yesterday.