Guyana News

Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran yesterday an-nounced that he has instructed that a multi-agency committee-made up of women’s rights groups and others-to inspect the maternity wards at public hospitals in an effort to address the troubling issue of maternal death.

A burst sewerage line caused a huge stink at the corner of Hadfield and Smyth streets yesterday, flooding the area just behind the Brickdam Police Station with sewage and inflicting discomfort.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) and cane cutters are denying that there was a strike on Sunday following a turf dispute fuelled by a decision to allow Skeldon estate workers to harvest cane at Albion estate.

A mixed jury was empanelled yesterday to preside over the murder trial of the two men accused of the Lusignan massacre after a voir dire was held for the selection of the jurors.

Miner Neon Howard, who was allegedly held with a sub-machine gun during a confrontation where his companion was shot by police, was remanded to prison on weapons charges yesterday.

In a letter appearing in our edition of Saturday, July 13, 2013 captioned ‘Paddy prices paid to farmers are not the same as last year’ there was a typographical error in one of the figures quoted.

In an effort to educate individuals on the art of steelpan making, the Tina Insanally Foundation yesterday officially opened the Chapman Steelpan Workshop.

The man who was fatally stabbed last Friday night at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara died as a result of perforation of the lungs due to stab wounds, police say.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) today said that due to fluctuations in electricity GWI water production sites cannot facilitate normal service.

An Air Services Limited (ASL) plane landed off the Matthews Ridge airstrip, Region One this morning but there were no life-threatening injuries to the passengers and pilot aboard.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran yesterday said that Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira was wrong when she identified him as one of three persons who came up with an amendment to the 2003 Procurement Bill phasing out the role of Cabinet in the award of contracts.

Despite overtures from the government, the main opposition, APNU and the AFC yesterday reiterated their intention to proceed cautiously on the motion to increase the debt ceiling for the Amaila hydro project as well as amendments to the Hydro Electric Act suggesting that the matters may not receive their support at Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly.

With countries throughout the region moving to implement bans on smoking in public places, the government and opposition parties here have mixed views on similar laws.

Almost five years after Anjanie Mahdoo was fatally beaten before being dumped in a canal at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara, her mother remains convinced that her killer is still on the loose because police failed to do enough to even bring charges against him.

With sections of the private sector being caught flat-footed by the new 40-hour work week and the $35,000 minimum wage, the employers’  body, CAGI has been blamed for not adequately disseminating information, a charge its head has dismissed.

The Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) has raised concerns about government’s reluctance to renegotiate contracts already approved to accommodate wage differences since the implementation of the new minimum wage.

Deputy General Manager at Bai Shan Lin, Girwar Lalaram says that the company received no official notice from the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) before the agency put out a public notice informing that the company was banned from mining laterite.

Leslie Wood, the taxi driver who was shot multiple times and left for dead last week, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday.

There is no movement yet on implementing electoral reforms recommended by the Organisation of American States (OAS) following the November 28, 2011 general elections.

In an effort to assist various communities in the hinterland regions, Food For The Poor Incorporated on Friday donated a quantity of agricultural tools to the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development.