Guyana News

Urging constitutional reform, former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran says that the answer to the problem of minority government and instability is to return to the full Westminster system with a ceremonial President and a prime minister as head of government.

Front bencher for the opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Carl Greenidge says that while the party has no plans to attend the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) meeting to put forward its arguments as to why it did not support the anti-money laundering Bill, it plans to write the body outlining its rationale.

According to the president of the Brazilian Mining and General Association (BMGA), Antonio Szala some 12 Brazilian miners were arrested yesterday in the Port Kaituma area and will likely be deported after court proceedings.

A hit and run accident which occurred on the Vryheid’s Lust roadway has left a 35-year-old Better Hope father of one dead while the driver of the vehicle which hit him fled the scene.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling says that following Thursday’s defeat of the anti-money laundering bill, the Chamber together with the Private Sector Commission (PSC) will meet to craft a joint strategy aimed at capturing the impacts of the sanctions to be imposed on Guyana.

By Jeff Trotman   Contrary to the announcement  by the leadership of the Linden IMC that the Kara Kara toll point would be opened on October 28th in defiance of an order by Local Government Minis-ter, Norman Whittaker, the facility remains closed and by last Friday the municipality’s officials seemed unsure of the way forward.

Pharmaceuticals supplier, the New GPC Inc. has criticized aspects of the 2012 Auditor-General’s report as erroneous and said sloppy word was done by the Audit Office after the report highlighted multi-million deficiencies in the procurement and supply of products from the company.

With the upcoming busy Christmas season, solid waste is expected to increase by as much as 60%, and Mayor Hamilton Green is appealing to all citizens to practice better garbage disposal.

42-year-old Harrilall Mohan reportedly hung himself on Saturday evening in his Lusignan home leaving his four children and other relatives to mourn.

Mabaruma’s electricity network is being upgraded but there is no timeframe as yet for the introduction of a 24-hour electricity supply.

Region Ten Vice-Chairman Byron Lewis has expressed concern that no fire hydrant has been installed under the multi-million dollar Linden Potable Water Rehabilitation Programme.

The residents of White Water, North West District (NWD) are being urged to be very careful with what they buy from shops in the area following Sunday’s consumption of candy which turned out to be cocaine by three children, Toshao Ernice Samuels said.

Secretary General of Caricom, Irwin LaRocque, on Wednesday, lobbied for Belgium’s support to urge the European Union (EU) to revisit its differentiation policy which denies Caricom’s highly-indebted middle income countries reduced access to concessionary funding.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says government is still misusing supplementary financial papers and abusing the Contingencies Fund and pointed to a number of instances in the latest requests made to the House where this trend continues.

At about 0200h today, Gopaulram Dass, 35 years, of Better Hope North, ECD, was struck down by a motor car as he was allegedly attempting to cross the public road at Vryheid’s Lust, ECD.

A Melanie Damishana resident is now dead while another is severely wounded after a man believed to be their business partner shot at them during a confrontation on Friday at Baracara, Canje River, Berbice.

During a visit to Nigg, Corentyne in the scorching mid-afternoon sun, the village appears quiet and empty with hardly any activity, save for vehicles including a horse-cart with passengers, passing through.

A 16-year-old boy was knifed to death and thrown into a canal allegedly by his sister’s reputed husband late Friday evening in Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, a day after his attacker was released from prison.

A vehicular accident that occurred around 00:10hrs yesterday on the Crabwood Creek Public Road, Corentyne, has left two youths dead and one injured.

Two families lost their homes yesterday after a man set fire to a two-storey building at Industry, East Coast Demerara before he apparently took his own life by ingesting poison.