Guyana News

PNCR potential presidential candidate David Granger will be the guest on the television talk show ‘Plain Talk’ this Sunday on WRHM Channel 7.

In a surprise move yesterday morning, most of the linesmen attached to the Linden Electricity Company Incorporated downed tools to press demands for a salary increase.

Every Child Guyana/ ChildLinK in collaboration with the UN-funded En-hanced Public Trust, Security and Inclusion programme on Tuesday launched “Youth Vision” an initiative aimed at reducing the level of violence in secondary schools.

Cabinet on Tuesday gave its “no objection” to five contracts valued at over $281 million for initiatives to be conducted under the purview of the Ministries of Home Affairs and Local Government, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said.

-final survey team due A fourth Japanese team is expected here this month to conduct a final assessment of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) which could result in aid to strengthen its dams.

  “He was a gentleman and gave Jack his jacket,” is the way in which Sherlock Atwell will remember  his friend and former teammate Lennox Joseph Hunte who died at 20:00 hours on Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

St Stanislaus College Secondary hosted the track events of its Inter-House Athletics Championships at the GCC Ground, Bourda, yesterday and will now determine who will represent the school at the North Georgetown Zone Champion of Champions Athletics meet.

`Preparations are going very well’ – Nascimento After five days of British hospitality, the national rugby Sevens team departed England yesterday for India where they will be representing Guyana in rugby Sevens at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi from October 3-14.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa  emerged triumphant after a military raid to rescue him from  protesting police, but still faces a political fight to push  through austerity measures testing his popularity.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – As the countdown to the  Commonwealth Games moved into its final three days, athletes  continued to flood into a heavily guarded Indian capital as the  host of problems surrounding the event showed signs of easing.

LUCKNOW, India, (Reuters) – An Indian court ruled  yesterday that the site of a demolished mosque would be split  between Hindus and Muslims, dousing immediate fears of a  violent backlash in one of the country’s most religiously  divisive cases.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Umpires will now be the sole  judges of whether the light is fit to allow play in one of eight  amendments to the rules of cricket which will come into effect  today.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Tony Curtis, whose dark  hair and good looks made him a Hollywood star well before he  became an accomplished actor in hit movies such as “Some Like  It Hot” and “The Sweet Smell of Success,” died Wednesday night  at his home in Nevada.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitians should seize  U.N.-backed elections in November as an opportunity to build a  better nation from the ruins of this year’s earthquake by  taking charge of future development and shedding years of aid  dependency, the top U.N.

Uniting the fractured People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) will be at the top of retired Brigadier David Granger’s list should he be nominated as the party’s presidential candidate for next year’s elections.

A Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) bond at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara sustained major damage as a result of a fire of unknown origin last night.

Government will be sponsoring free classes in Mathematics and English over the next year for students who would have failed to matriculate at this year’s CSEC examination, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday.

The payout process for policyholders of the collapsed Clico (Guyana) continued yesterday but there was no information from the liquidators on how many people have so far received money and the totals paid out.

…but Bhim optimistic Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo, Paul Bhim yesterday confirmed that the sugar industry is facing a heavy production deficit saying that it has slumped to “some low levels” this year, but he expect things to “pick up soon”.

Two vendors accused of behaving in a disorderly manner in the courtroom of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court were admitted to bail in the sum of $25,000 each when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday.