Guyana News

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says it found a high incidence of meter tampering in several West Coast Demerara communities in its first foray into the area this year.

The PPP has condemned Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Clarissa Riehl for disallowing an intervention by Prime Minister Sam Hinds at Tuesday’s sitting of National Assembly to close debate on a PNCR-1G motion criticizing the PPP/C Government’s plans for the design and construction of the Berbice Bridge.

The Region Seven Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has approved committees for the mining, transportation, agriculture and tourism sectors.

Local representatives of Caricom and the UN yesterday convened a meeting aimed at facilitating a more responsive programme of cooperation between the two institutions.

Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, yesterday said that he would be sending some of his officers into the secondary school where a student was found with a quantity of marijuana and it was discovered that a gang was peddling drugs and stolen items.

Nearly one year after he was killed, the police are yet to find the persons who pumped 13 bullets into the body of Ronald Waddell.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that he is in no hurry to appoint acting commissioner Henry Greene as the substantive Police Commissioner and announced that from February 1 former New York Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik will be contracted to provide security advice to him and the Minister of Home Affairs.

The body of a man was found on the Pomeroon River bank on Wednesday shortly after a boat he operated was spotted drifting in the river.

A mysterious fire yesterday destroyed a small part of a newspaper vendor’s residence in Sophia.

An 11-year-old student of the New Amsterdam (NA) Primary School in Chapel Street had to be hospitalized and given oxygen after she was badly beaten by another student last Friday.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues met with Waini, Region One residents to discuss the process of obtaining land titles for these communities.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Tuesday commissioned a sanitary block at the Rose Hall Community Centre.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is advising all customers of Agriculture Road, Triumph that a boil order is in effect for water used for food preparation and for personal consumption.

The Rice Factories Amendment Bill would force millers who are out of favour or are deemed non-supporters of the PPP/C to stop their business operations while new persons entering the industry would find partisan political agendas at work.

Three companies are providing an $18M support package to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport for this year’s Mashramani activities.

An interfaith service is the Deputy Regional Executive Officer’s (DREO) and the mash committee’s choice of a perfect start for the Region Two events preceding Mashramani 2007 In an interview, DREO Carl Parker said that the event cannot be a one-man show and as a result his committee includes members of the business community, the department of education, the police force, the fire service, the New Opportunity Corps, officers of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and the general public.

Bosai Minerals Group Ltd and Canadian firm IAMGOLD will have to wait until mid February to get an answer from the government on a proposed US$46M deal to sell IAMGOLD’s 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) and Omai Services Inc to Bosai.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John on Tuesday remanded the couple charged with the Christmas Day murder at Blairmont and adjourned the case to February 13, the date set for the beginning of the preliminary inquiry (PI).

Two men accused of raping and robbing a Rosignol woman were granted bail on Tuesday when they appeared before Magistrate Kim Kyte-John to answer to the charges at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Chandra Sohan committed two men accused of murder to stand trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Berbice when they on Tuesday appeared before him at the Whim Magistrate’s Court.