Guyana News

TravelSpan and Vision Airlines are inviting applications from university graduates to fill the positions of flight attendants to staff an additional aircraft that will be put into service on February 15.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Monday dismissed recent criticisms by opposition leader David Granger of the plans to set up a police Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) unit as contradictory.

The funeral for Terry Holder will take place today. According to the death announcement in yesterday’s Stabroek News, the viewing of the body will be held at the Merriman Funeral Home at Lime and Bent streets  between midday and 1 pm.

The Ministry of Education this evening said that 12 schools in Georgetown and one in Region Three will remain closed tomorrow January 15, 2014 as a result of severe rainfall which has caused flooding of their compounds.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1110h.

The body of a 16-year-old Kuru Kururu girl was this morning found in a creek behind her home and it is believed that she was murdered by a man she shared a relationship with.

The funeral for Terry Holder will take place tomorrow,  Wednesday, January 15.

Accounts of Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) are in total disarray as 80% of them have not been audited for the last five years and columnist Anand Goolsarran has pilloried the audit office over the delinquency.

The Ministry of Agriculture last night said that the latest weather data leads it to believe that coastal areas of Guyana particularly Regions 1 to 4 might experience heavy showers during the next 24 hours.

A long-awaited project that will enable wider consultations on forest protection as well as aid in Guyana accessing more funding for protecting its forest is set to take off with the recent approval by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) board of a US$3.8 million grant for Guyana.

Former judge Winston Moore was yesterday sworn in as Ombudsman by President Donald Ramotar, bringing an end to an almost ten-year vacancy in the crucial constitutional office.

The Full Court yesterday ruled that it has no jurisdiction to deal with the decision of Chief Justice (Ag) Ian Chang to strike out Opposition Leader David Granger as a defendant in the budget cuts case.

The pilot of Saturday’s crashed airplane and its pregnant passenger have both been released from hospital.

Police are being accused of sexually brutalising a young man with a baton at his cousin’s home in Timehri and at the Timehri Police Station and his mother is now seeking justice and help for medical aids as he recovers in hospital.

PPP/C MP and Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has again been elected to the chairmanship of the Special Select Committee on Anti Money-Laundering/ Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Amendment Bill.

The poetry of A J Seymour was celebrated, concert style, on Sunday evening as several well-known poetry enthusiasts paid tribute to a man described by Ian Mc Donald as “Guyana’s greatest man of letters,” and “a scene setter for West Indian writers.”

Local Government and Regional Development Minister Ganga Persaud on Friday announced that the government has received six expressions of interest from companies to build Guyana’s first solid waste recycling plant.

With their eyes on the $1.5 million top prize, 18 local artistes are preparing to give it their all at the semi-final of the 10th Carib Soca Monarch competition on February 8.

The governments of Guyana and the UK yesterday signed an agreement to enhance cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking.

A row, allegedly over stolen cannabis has resulted in two men being remanded to prison on attempted murder and other charges.