Guyana News

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland   If you’re scared of leaping cows, don’t go into the corral.

A Malaysian company has begun the first phase of what it envisions will eventually be a US$500 million investment in Guyana’s agricultural and forestry sectors covering oil palm, rubber and soya, among other crops.

Minister of Natural Resources Robert Persaud yesterday announced that beginning this year, sand mining, particularly along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway area will be properly managed and monitored.

A 15-year-old girl died yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital where she had been hospitalized after ingesting a poisonous substance in her school’s washroom on Friday.

Three months after it was announced that a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) unit will be set up here, government has not communicated any of its plans to the opposition and APNU Leader David Granger is not convinced that a case has been made for such a group.

Payments in the sum of $600M made to the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL), which       chartered accountant Christopher Ram says are unconstitutional, are  among the discrepancies in expenses and income uncovered by his independent scrutiny of recently released reports and accounts of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy says that a proposed investment by China Paper has not moved beyond the Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) stage as yet.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Executive Chairman Komal Samaroo says the company is in the process of training employees who will be used to help wrestle US, Canadian, and other international markets shares from the hands of more established rum producers.

Frustrated by her search     for someone experienced, trustworthy and reliable enough to care for a sick family member, Elwyn Boyle realised that Guyana lacked an organised home nursing care service and decided to do something about it.

A plane heading to the interior crashed on take-off at the Ogle International Airport this morning leaving one woman seriously injured.

Bhashir Mohamed, owner of BM Soat, East Coast Demerara (ECD), has withdrawn all actions on his part in the court with respect to his occupation of public land which led to the Ministry of Works breaking down an encumbrance at Success.

Have goats been slaughtered at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall? The answer to this question could be known on Thursday when Parliament meets.

Dellon Abrams, the prisoner accused of the fatal shooting of Police Detective Corporal Seburn Elias during a brief escape on Monday, was charged with the lawman’s murder yesterday.

Two North Rupununi men were killed between Thursday night and Friday morning in separate attacks fuelled by alcohol.

The recently aborted Muri Brasil Ventures New River Triangle surveying scheme points to a shift by the administration on the priority given to environmental protection under the low carbon development strategy, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA).

The Home Affairs Ministry says current data shows that poor families are not disproportionately affected by “the security crisis,” as claimed by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), but rather well-heeled individuals.

Substantive appointments to the positions of Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice remain a distant prospect as the government and the opposition are still divided on the way forward.

Opposition leader David Granger yesterday dismissed claims by political analyst Henry Jeffrey that the main opposition coalition APNU is being naïve in its policy suggestions.

A Guyanese veterinarian has been accused of aiding two Utah siblings in allegedly smuggling a rare boa constrictor from Brazil to the United States, where the brother and sister duo has been charged with several criminal offences.

Almost 12 years after it joined Caricom, the relationship between Haiti and the community promises to be stronger following the presentation of credentials by plenipotentiary representative to Haiti, Peterson Noel.