Guyana News

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has introduced a ‘Random Selection of Imported Goods for Examination’ with effect from January 2014.

Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud yesterday put miners on notice about attempts to stymie potential investors in the industry, following the decision by Muri Brasil Ventures Inc to abandon its controversial surveying permit in the New River Triangle area.

PPP leaders yesterday argued that the condition of public servants have improved under the party’s watch, with MP Manzoor Nadir saying that the average worker makes above the minimum wage and is able of taking care of his/her basic needs because of steps taken by the party to improve livelihoods.

The police are making some progress in their investigations into the murder of Pegasus Taxi driver Rudranauth Jeeboo, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

Property owners are being encouraged to ensure to pay up their rates at the Mayor & City Council (M&CC) and are also reminded that it is their civic obligation to the city.

Rehabilitation works restarted yesterday on the badly-deteriorated seawall and dam at Mosquito Hall, East Coast Demerara but Works Ministry officials said they were just a temporary fix and that major reconstruction is planned.

Two couples yesterday appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

The PPP says it hopes the Commission of Enquiry into the death of scholar and historian Walter Rodney is set up and begins functioning in 2014.

Patrick Chinedu, Assistant Chief Education Officer, yesterday announced that Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) will be introduced in secondary schools across Guyana, so like at institutes, students can leave with skilled certificates in addition to the Caribbean Examination Certificate.

The Mayor & City Council (M&CC) yesterday publicly thanked workers from drainage, public and environmental services, public health department, nurses of the maternal and child welfare section, day care services, garbage collection and disposal and the city sluices for their tireless work in providing vital municipal services to residents of local communities.

The National Library in collaboration with Francis Quamina Farrier and the University of Guyana will be hosting a concert and exhibition to commemorate life and work of AJ Seymour, late Guyanese poet on Sunday January 12, 2014 at the Theatre Guild from 7.00 pm.

The police are in the process of sending a file on the investigations surrounding the death of Marcia Adams to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

The Carnegie School of Home Economics is exploring the possibility of offering online training to persons wishing to obtain qualifications in areas of hospitality during its new developmental phase.

Relatives of 16-year-old Jerome Sturge yesterday said that his cause of death was given as blunt trauma to head and suffocation.

The Iwokrama Inter-national Centre for Rain Forest Conserva-tion and Development announced yesterday that Farfan and Mendes Limited (FML) was selected as the private sector partner for the second phase of its model sustainable timber operation in the Iwokrama Forest.

The trial of the four accused of the murder of US-based Guyanese Motilall Singh continued yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which some citizens keep their immediate surroundings saying that some are kept in a manner so as to be a nuisance to neighbours and also in direct contravention to the public health regulations.

The school term reopened yesterday with no known unpleasant incidents, according to the Ministry of Education which said that the

Opposition parties A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) are unlikely to vote in favour of budget measures for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) given the continued dismal production and in the absence of a comprehensive turnaround strategy.

A company in the Industrial Site, Ruimveldt area, where dumping has become a norm, plans to use its surveillance cameras to identify perpetrators in the hope that this will lead to them being prosecuted.