Guyana News

A man of unsound mind was fatally shot yesterday afternoon by one of two armed policemen whom he reportedly attacked with a bread knife on Robb Street.

More than two months after his wife was shot and killed during a robbery outside their home, a city jeweller is upset that to date the police have not yet taken a statement from him.

Veteran journalist Cecil Griffith, who died on Monday night following a period of hospitalisation, is being remembered as a professional who was intolerant of mediocrity yet was always pleasant.

Though many businesses are still coming to terms with collecting Value Added Tax (VAT), they must now prepare to remit the collected taxes to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and an accounting session to help with this was held yesterday.

Approximately 16,000 public assistance recipients have begun benefiting from government grants and the Human Services Ministry is advising others to visit their respective post offices to uplift their vouchers for the first half of the year.

Guyana moved from ‘Partly Free’ to ‘Free’ in the 2007 Freedom in the World index, a part of the Washington D.C.-based

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues says she is pleased about the progress of the manicole plantation project in Region One.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday conferred the Instruments of State Commission and other awards on 23 Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officers.

Three identification cards have been found in Robb Street and were handed over to the management and staff of NP Electronics Inter-national, Lot 45 Robb Street, Lacytown.

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir says a Ministerial Committee on HIV/AIDS was on Tuesday launched to educate employees about the infection and the support programmes available to help them to cope with it in the workplace.

Contractors in Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) were cautioned recently by Regional Executive Officer (REO) Desmond Kissoon that the Regional Tender and Procurement Board will this year debar or blacklist contractors who fail to deliver satisfactory and complete work within agreed deadlines.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) on Monday said that it is currently not investigating a complaint lodged with it by Vreed-en-Hoop headmaster Alvin Johnson as the matter had been referred to the Attorney-General’s Chambers by the Teaching Service Commis-sion (TSC).

Another victim from the two-car East Bank Demerara smash-up that occurred on Sunday, died yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital without regaining consciousness.

An accident at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo has left a woman in hospital nursing head injuries.

A fire of mysterious origin razed a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home yesterday leaving its three occupants, who were not at home at the time homeless and with millions in losses.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday said veteran journalist Cecil Griffith who passed away on Monday was an eminent son of the soil who has left his “imprint in the spheres of journalism”.

Two men in a red motor car yesterday robbed a recently opened East Coast of Demerara gas station of a quantity of cash.

Four Amerindian communities will shortly receive titles to their lands and a fifth will be granted an extension as soon as the Lands and Surveys Commission has completed mapping the identified areas, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds last weekend at Linden commissioned a brand new Wood-Mizer Super LT 40 Hydraulic Mill, acquired by the Region Ten Agriculture and Forest Products Association (RAFPA).

Stakeholders yesterday started to fine-tune a number of initiatives to respond to the challenges and concerns facing the nation’s youth while at the same time creating ways to ensure their participation in the country’s development.