Guyana News

The bids to build the access roads and other infrastructure to facilitate the development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project have been evaluated and an announcement on the award is expected to be made shortly.

Caricom finance ministers at the Fourteenth Meeting of Council of Finance and Planning (COFAP) again pledged to support rebuilding efforts in Haiti even as Secretary-General Edwin Carrington urged the region to support Chile in the wake of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on February 27.

BERLIN – European leaders expressed confidence yesterday that new austerity measures planned by Greece would be enough to pull the country out of its debt crisis and make any bailout unnecessary.

When a foul scent started emanating from an Eping Avenue apartment yesterday afternoon the caretaker was forced to break in, only to discover the dead bodies of a Cuban doctor and a woman.

-gunman identified The murder of a Canada-based Guyanese during a robbery at the Cool Square bar on Wednesday night was recorded by surveillance cameras, including the face of one of two gunmen involved.

– as Lall details financial discrepancies Region Four REO Shafdar Ali was released on station bail yesterday shortly after Local Government and Regional Development Minister Kellawan Lall read findings from a report on the region which indicated financial discrepancies amounting to some $100 million.

Republic Bank Guyana Limited yesterday launched the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Toolkit Caribbean at its headquarters in New Market Street and was challenged by the Tourism Minister to develop a report that reflected whether the toolkit contributed to the growth of small and medium entrepreneurs in the country.

Last week, centenarian Cecilia Goddard Hughes was not sure she was going to live to see her next birthday after a bout of illness.

– court hears Forty-two-year-old Vernon Barnwell of Leopold Street was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $30,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of using an iron to smack his stepdaughter to her head and back.

Four persons were rescued from rough waters in the Essequibo River between Hog Island and Leguan early yesterday morning after the boat they were travelling in capsized midstream.

– Ramsammy says as new PEPFAR partnership launched Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says Guyana should be on the road to eliminating the AIDS epidemic as a major public health problem in another ten years provided the right strategies are pursued and an increased focus is placed on prevention programmes.

Justice Winston Patterson yesterday sentenced Mechel Skeete to 13 years imprisonment for killing her reputed husband by setting him ablaze while he lay in their bed at East Canje, Berbice, on May 14, 2006.

President Bharrat Jagdeo recently met Belgium Ambassador to Guyana Leopold Carrewyn at a brief ceremony held at State House.

The East Coast Pandits and Mandir Leaders group said its Holi Mela at Enmore Blossom Scheme attracted more than 5,000 people and it is encouraged by the response and plans to host the event annually.

Cuban dissident Luis Posada Carilles is again attracting media attention with the release of a new book by a US-based Guyanese journalist which gives fresh insight into his terrorist activities as his trial in an El Paso federal court draws near.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Africans are getting wealthier more quickly than previously believed, according to a new study that also suggests the poorest continent’s riches are spreading beyond the narrow confines of its elite.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints handed over $1.8 million in equipment to the Corriverton Development Association to support its training sessions and charitable works.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Human rights abuses in Sri Lanka are damaging prospects for reconciliation after 25 years of civil war and a violent crackdown on dissent in Iran is deeply worrying, the top UN human rights official said yesterday.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said the mammoth crowd that participated in the IAC’s Rang Barse held at the Bath Settlement Community Centre Ground on Monday is testament to the fact that Holi has truly become a national festival.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats made headway on Thursday on their top legislative priority — job creation — when the House of Representatives approved a $15 billion package of tax credits and highway construction.