Guyana News

Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran and the out-going Board of Directors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and some members of the new board met last evening for a social interaction, during which he revealed that for the first time ever the National Blood Transfusion Service has received 10,000 units, the Government Information Agency said.

Contracts for $47m worth of works at the University of Guyana were cleared by Cabinet this week.

At about 0200h. today, Jevonne Sealey, 27 years, of Bachelor’s Adventure, ECD, was driving a motor cycle along the Access Road at Bachelor’s Adventure when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a utility pole.

Georgetown was this morning raked with heavy rain, deafening thunder claps and blinding flashes of lightning.

Fly Jamaica will take off from Guyana on September 27, with its inaugural flight to New York via Kingston, as paperwork from the regulatory authorities in the United States is still being processed to enable direct flights.

Officers of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday morning destroyed almost $3 billion in cocaine and marijuana that made up evidence used in recently-concluded court cases and which head of the unit James Singh called proof of higher seizures.

Australian company Pharsalus Gold Inc has applied to the environmental authorities for an authorisation for large scale gold mining at Black Water Creek, Kaburi Area, in Region Seven, which will use cyanide in its recovery operations and an impact assessment now has to be done.

Government yesterday held firm to its position that there is a national shortage of stone that warrants importation to cushion both demand and price.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) is assisting in the investigations into the discovery of 69 kilogrammes of cocaine in a rice shipment in the Dominican Republic last month, unit head James Singh said yesterday.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) MP Winston Felix says that the government and Home Affairs Clement Rohee are to be blamed for the national security breakdown that has led to the current increase in criminal activities.

In 111 raids by the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) and the Guyana Police Force from January to June this year, 3921 illegal connections were detected and removed.

Four of the five men held for questioning about the murder of elderly Corentyne rice miller Lallapersaud Juggerdeo have been released by police on station bail.

Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque is sounding an alarm over the health of the region’s young people, with current data pointing to increasing trends of obesity due to unhealthy diets, sedentary lifestyles, and consumption of tobacco and alcohol and at earlier ages.

Odel Percival, one of two policemen charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice by bribing a fellow lawman due to testify in the $7M Bel Air heist trial, was on Thursday found guilty and sentenced to one year in jail.

The Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is conducting an investigation into allegations that ranks of the Wales Police Station failed to respond to reports of gunshots prior to the shooting to death of 14-year-old Ryan Persaud.

Several of the statutes governing the University of Guyana (UG) have been stealthily amended to give Vice Chancellor (VC) greater power, the University of Guyana Senior Staff Associa-tion (UGSSA) and the Uni-versity of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) both say.

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn met with more Timehri North residents on Wednesday to discuss their relocation to facilitate the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) expansion project, and he assured government’s interest in helping but said it would not include compensation.

Footballer Omalo Williams, along with three other men, was yesterday remanded to prison over harbouring items that were allegedly stolen from Golyn and Sons during a robbery.

Quincy Andrews, 29, who confessed to breaking into a West La Penitence home but said he was doing nothing, was yesterday sentenced to serve the next three years behind bars.

Berbice resident Dern Hunte is now a remanded prisoner after being allegedly found with a large quantity of marijuana during a police stop.