Guyana News

The Ministry of Amerin-dian Affairs awarded titles to three more Amerindian communities last year and Minister Pauline Sukhai said the target for titling eligible communities will soon be achieved.

A re-tender yesterday for the installation of new air-conditioning units at the National Cultural Centre saw two companies submitting bids.

In keeping with the season, the Guyana Defence Force presented hampers and cash to the surviving spouses, children and relatives of seven of its members who passed away during 2013.

Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque says the Community’s accomplishments in 2013 are a testimony of its “determination and commitment to forge a common destiny as small unified States” even as he revealed that a Five-Year Strategic Plan to chart the way forward for the Region is almost completed.

Facing three charges, including forging a Republic Bank Guyana Ltd cheque for the sum of $295,450, a 25-year-old man was on Monday remanded to prison when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 67-year-old man on Monday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court over possessing a shotgun without a licence.

(Trinidad Express) As the year draws to a close, two men were gunned down in El Socorro on Sunday night in what police have described as a drug-related incident.

  From January 5th, 2014, the new price of the Sunday Stabroek will be $140.

Clinton Hart, a chainsaw operator from Region One, was taken before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday to face the indictable charge of murder.

Some six fishermen have gone missing along with their fishing boat, Invincible 3, which reportedly overturned near Shell Beach at the Pomeroon River mouth.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Harold Peters, 66 years, of Shea Village, South Rupununi, whose body was found at about 0530h.

Guyana is to benefit from a US$1m ($200m) grant in the second quarter of next year for a solid waste project for Georgetown and other municipalities.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday said that it is unacceptable that there is shortage of medication in the health sector, while from time to time large amount of drugs have to be destroyed and he challenged the powers that be in the sector to hire the right people for the job.

Workers from the region and central government were last evening battling to close a new breach in the Airy Hall, Region Two Conservancy which has swamped a large acreage of rice and threatens nearby villages.

A building on Waterloo Street, which housed a mechanic shop, went up in flames during the wee hours of yesterday morning leaving millions in damage.

An inadequately maintained sluice in Black Bush Polder, East Berbice is being blamed for rain-fuelled floodwaters in the agricultural scheme.

Minister of Works Robeson Benn yesterday said his Ministry’s denial of an application by Muri Brasil Ventures Inc (MBVI) for an airstrip in the New River Triangle was in line with Government’s policy for the area and because of security concerns.

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn yesterday said his ministry was acting within the ambit of the law when workers demolished a fence and building belonging to BM Soat at Success, East Coast Demerara.

The Guyana Women’s Miners Organization (GWMO) yesterday rescued a woman and her teenaged daughter who said they were being held against their will at a location in Region Eight.

As another major holiday draws near, Verney Benjamin, a nurse employed at the Kumaka District Hospital in Region One who has been unpaid for 9 months, is still hoping that she will be paid soon following renewed promises from the Ministry of Health (MOH).