-part of school improvement plan
The Tucville Primary school on Thursday launched its new reading room as part of its five-year School Improvement Plan (SIP), in an impressive ceremony that stressed the importance of reading.
BISSAU, (Reuters) – Military police in Guinea-Bissau yesterday killed a government minister who was to be a candidate in presidential elections and two former ministers in what the authorities said was a bid to foil a planned coup attempt.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Any credible accusation of human rights violations committed during the final bloody phase of Sri Lanka’s war against Tamil Tiger separatists should be investigated, U.N.
MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Uruguay’s interior minister was sacked yesterday after television channels showed her making vulgar comments about the opposition and months after she drew criticism for a controversial photograph of herself on the Facebook social networking Internet site.
Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony said Monica Chopperfield who was also known as Lady Guymine was a cultural icon, in his message of condolence on her passing.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama had a blunt, “tough-love” message for Arabs and Israelis that thrust him deeper into Middle East peacemaking — a tangled web that bedeviled his predecessors and carries risks for him.
-Narcotics had been secreted in logs
(Barbados Nation) Six Guyanese who have been on a prolonged trial in Barbados on a charge of smuggling ganja and cocaine into that country in 2005 were yesterday found guilty and will be sentenced on June 15.
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers who are now in police custody following allegations of armed robbery reportedly demanded work permits and licences from miners at a Brazilian mining camp before robbing them of money and gold last Thursday at Five Star, Barima/Waini, Region One.
Gunmen snatched him from boat
Less than a day after being grabbed by five hijackers from a Surinamese “back track” boat, the body of a 44-year-old Guyanese businessman was fished out of the Corentyne River yesterday.
…Luncheon says ‘comprehensive disclosure’ needed
A “comprehensive response” to the alleged links between government and jailed Guyanese drug kingpin Roger Khan depends on “comprehensive disclosure,” according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon.
A single blood drive two Saturdays ago netted 240 units to set a new record in Guyana and the English-speaking Caribbean when Swami Aksharananda of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara spearheaded the activity.
– annual target still doable if plan stuck to, Gopaul says
There was a shortfall in sugar production by some 6,000 tonnes during the first crop which recorded just over 83,000 tonnes, largely as a result of poor weather conditions, Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation board Dr Nanda Gopaul said yesterday.
-child protection unit steps in
Welfare officers attached to the Child Protection Unit of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSS) yesterday met with a 15-year- old girl who was severely beaten by her father at the family’s East Coast Demerara home on Wednesday.
-administration would be able to pick all members of key commission
Following criticism by the opposition, the government yesterday tabled two more bills in Parliament for local government reforms and the one catering for the establishment of the local government commission would enable the PPP/C administration to pick all six members.
Man was killed while speaking to friend
Ashnie Williams was being taken for a pre-birthday walk while Salim Mohamed was standing on the roadway speaking to a friend who was in a parked motor car when both of them died on the Kilcoy Public Road, Corentyne after a speeding car crashed on Saturday afternoon.