Guyana News

The Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) has declared Guyana open for business after President Bharrat Jagdeo briefed a group of Russian businessmen on the country’s business prospects.

Four pieces of legislation bringing into being the single Caricom domestic space within which Cricket World Cup 2007 will be held were unanimously approved by the National Assembly yesterday and immediately assented to.

The reference to ethnicity in the description of the Guyana stadium in the ICC CWC West Indies 2007 brochure was done by the marketing department of the organisers of the event, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said.

Guyanese in Richmond Hill, Queens accused the New York police of racism and abuse of their powers at a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday held at the Guyanese-owned Nareesa Palace catering hall on Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone.

Several businesspersons in East Berbice have expressed indignation over a recent exercise conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture and the New Guyana Marketing Corporation in Regions Five and Six during which essential items were sold at “competitive prices” to two communities.

Charity Shop patron Kayleigh Burgess yesterday opened her promised new store on Church Street.

Three gun-toting bandits on Tuesday evening robbed a Bee Hive woman of over $15,000 in cash and jewellery while she was having a bath in her yard.

Minister of Tourism Manniram Prashad says government is working with Berbicians to promote Region Six as a tourist destination.

Recent changes in the schedule of the MV Malali, which plies the Adventure to Parika route in the Essequibo have not gone down well with commuters, though officials say the changes are absolutely necessary.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is conducting Value-Added Tax (VAT) outreach exercises in Region Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara).

A tuberculosis (TB) laboratory which has the capacity to conduct complete testing for the disease has been commissioned at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) is still awaiting a response from the Office of the President on its request to meet President Bharrat Jagdeo on the issue of government’s withdrawal of ministry advertisements from the Stabroek News.

A nine-month-old baby suffered burns to his face during a fire at a Sophia home on Tuesday night, which has left a once homeless family without a roof over their heads yet again.

An accident early yesterday morning during which a car hit a parked truck has left three persons nursing injuries at the hospital Indra Chintan, her 15-year-old daughter Padmini, of Endeavour, Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and the driver of the car were admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Corporation.

Guyana Publications Inc has assumed responsibility for the publication of the Guyana Review monthly news magazine with effect from 1st January 2007.

The two men accused of breaking into the CCS store on Camp Street and stealing over $1.8M were on Monday granted $150,000 bail each by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan when they made a second court appearance.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez sentenced a repeat offender to prison, after he admitted to breaking and entering and larceny of his sisters’ home, when he yesterday appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.

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Two prison officers appeared in the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday accused of negligence in the escape of nine convicted prisoners from the Mazaruni Prison earlier this month.

A farmer from the village of Kuru Kuru was shot and killed early yesterday during an encounter with three bandits who escaped with a significant quantity of cash and jewellery after tying up the man’s family with duct tape.