Guyana News

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday announced the launch of its new website and online advertising service at www.gcci.gy.

The KFC outlet near Stabroek Square and the KFC and Pizza Hut outlets on Vlissengen Road closed earlier than usual yesterday afternoon due to unknown circumstances although a sign at the Stabroek outlet said it would be reopened “shortly after maintenance.”

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh on Monday insisted that the Government of Guyana would not have been incurring a single dollar of debt from the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric project and said that the loans guarantee sought in Parliament protects against a default by GPL.

Head of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) Komal Chand says that mechanisation and manual labour have to go hand-in-hand if the sugar sector is to see a turnaround.

What his lawyer called “a strong alibi” was not enough to get bail for the accused in a break-in and larceny yesterday, after a court heard that police were investigating him for similar offences.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has announced that plans are in train to build a $28M Protected Areas Commission Head Office at Thomas Lands by year-end.

The Guyana Water Incor-porated Inc (GWI) says there will be a number of traffic diversions on several city streets to facilitate the upgrade of sewerage pumps and other works as the Government of Guyana/IDB US$10,000,000 Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme progresses.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) has donated $30,000 to Satish Gobin towards the cost of a kidney transplant operation in India.

Plumber Matthew Adams, who was found with a utensil used to crush cannabis when he was arrested and taken to the Brickdam Police Station, will be spending the next year in jail.

The Guyana Mining School and Training Centre’s started its first training session last week and even as stakeholders welcomed the initiative they hoped that the curriculum would feature topics that are relevant to small miners.

Two brothers were yesterday put on bonds to keep the peace after one admitted to threatening the other.

Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative for Guyana and Suriname, Marianne Flach on Monday  presented her Letters of Credence to Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have signed a $4M co-financing grant agreement aimed at developing the EPA’s Environmental Protection Compliance and Enforcement Regulations in support of the Environmental Protection Act No 11 of 1996.

Two bus operators were charged yesterday with threatening and assaulting each other.

At about 1530h. today, the police say that a boat ferrying passengers from Port Kaituma to Mabaruma struck a log in the Barima River, NWD, causing passenger Shevonne Anthony, 19 years, to fall overboard.

Police say that at about 0230h today, the body of Victor Ramsabad, 32 years, of Diamond, EBD, was found with suspected marks of violence in a compound at Friendship, EBD.

A 28-year-old Albouystown resident was stabbed to death this morning. Tolasicy Marshall called ‘Talo’ of Hogg Street sustained two stab wounds just after 11 o clock.

Was Sithe Global’s insistence on raising the loans guarantee ceiling a means of securing a safeguard for the loans that were to be made available to the Amaila Falls hydropower project by the IDB and the Chinese Development Bank (CDB)?

The police today said that cognisant of an article that appeared in the Stabroek News yesterday under the caption `Miner stabbed to death at Aranka’, and which dealt with the death of Keith Wallerson, the force wished to explain that based on investigations conducted so far, the circumstances surrounding Wallerson’s death appear to be different.

Businessman Asad Ishoof passed away on July 31st at the age of 68.