Guyana News

Government has allocated $1.5 billion for the water sector this year to improve the supply and expand access countrywide to potable water.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said government has allocated $3.6 billion to continue its housing drive this year, particularly with the development of housing schemes.

– $1.8B for laptops project The continuation of infrastructure works for the fibre optic cable from Brazil has been allocated $2.5 billion in this year’s budget for while $1.8 billion have been allocated for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative.

Finance Minister Ashni Singh today disclosed that since the appointment of a liquidator, 4,567 Clico (Guyana) policyholders have uplifted cheques totalling $3.1B.

For many years, the single largest source of foreign exchange earnings, sugar was relegated to number four last year.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh has called on the University of Guyana (UG) to modernise the delivery of its programmes by introducing online degrees.

A former US Peace Corps volunteer in Guyana is one of six women who have told US television station ABC about being raped while overseas on assignment and feeling unsupported by the organization.

Joan Baveghems is the new PNCR-1G Member of Parliament. She takes up the seat left vacant on the passing of MP Winston Murray.

Finance Minister Ashni Singh this afternoon announced that the income tax threshold had been lifted from $35,000 per month to $40,000 per month and he also unveiled a drop in the corporation tax.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The prosecutor of the U.N.-backed  tribunal issued today a draft indictment over the 2005  killing of statesman Rafik al-Hariri, a long-anticipated move  that has touched off a Lebanese political crisis.

Three Guyanese are feared dead after a day of fun turned tragic on Sunday afternoon at the popular Mayaro beach in South Trinidad, according to the Trinidad Express.

The People’s Progressive Party today extended best wishes to former government minister and Member of Parliament, Reepu Daman Persaud who celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand will look to bat  the first session of the fourth day of the second test against  Pakistan today and then reassess as to how to approach the  rest of the game as they attempt to level the series, pace  bowler Chris Martin said yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India will gamble on the fitness  of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Praveen  Kumar after the four injured players were included in the final  15-member squad today for next month’s World Cup.

President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh yesterday vowed that the board’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held as scheduled and revealed that its audited accounts for last year will be handed over to the Registrar of the Friendly Societies this morning -paving the way for the AGM.

Some time after 9 am today a Meadow Bank man was stabbed to the neck by a co-worker and died shortly after at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

A Lance Corporal in the Guyana Defence Force died last evening after he lost control of the motor bike he was riding on the West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road and ended up in a trench.

A Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara taxi-driver died – reportedly of a broken neck – after being beaten by another man during a scuffle last evening.

At a meeting held at the Skeldon High School Annex at Corriverton yesterday, residents listened to the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) presidential hopefuls as they outlined their plans

The Ministry of Home Affairs together with other agencies has established what it has dubbed ‘houses of justice’ which aims at addressing pressing community problems and assisting persons to access critical