Guyana News

A US court judge yesterday ruled that drug-indicted businessman Roger Khan must be held without bail and turned down yet another bail application when he appeared in court in New York.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and the France-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters San Frontieres) have condemned the Guyana government’s withdrawal of state advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Cellular operators in Guyana can from February 16 fix rates as low as $7 per minute and as high as $32 per minute, according to their various plans, an order from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) said.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was yesterday morning pulled from a pile of logs on a beach at Parika, East Bank Essequibo after she never returned home the day before.

Secondary school students of forms one to three who are members of the Litchfield Library on the West Coast of Berbice recently participated in a ‘spelling bee’ competition sponsored by the library.

In a two-day session which ended on Sunday 350 more local volunteers were trained to provide service assistance for Cricket World Cup in March.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday called on the Guyana government to withdraw the Casino Gambling Bill, declaring that the assertion that Guyana’s nascent tourist industry, aimed at eco-tourists, stands to benefit from casinos is nonsense.

The owners of a rice mill at Number 19 Village Corentyne, Berbice suffered tremendous losses on Monday when the roof collapsed during heavy winds around 11.10 am.

Digicel, which recently acquired Cel*Star/U Mobile, plans to introduce prepaid roaming when it rolls out the full range of its cellular service here and will also offer per second billing.

The Beacon Foundation says numerous entities and countless individuals have contributed to it being able to embark on its 22nd year of continuous social welfare service but more work is still to be done.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues on Wednesday handed over the title to land in Region One in keeping with the government’s survey and demarcation exercise.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that its Compliance and Arrears Collection Unit is in the process of issuing warning letters to several businesses that have not taken corrective action in spite of the advice of the VAT and Excise Tax Department.

With piracy a recurrent problem, the Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday that plans are in place to eliminate the incidence of hijackings, in the long term, by further increasing security arrangements with fishermen and the Ministries of Agricul-ture and Home Affairs and the coast guard of the Guyana Defence Force.

Significant emphasis will be placed this year on revitalizing in excess of 1000 co-operative societies countrywide as the first step toward ensuring that they operate in conformity with the Co-operatives Act, Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has said.

The Region Seven administration has planned a series of exercises to make Bartica more visible and attractive for the influx of visitors expected for the Cricket World Cup (CWC).

An 11-year-old girl is still a patient at the Skeldon Hospital after she was brutally raped last Saturday by a man who has since been placed in police custody.

As the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) continue to trade barbs over the implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT), Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur has rejected the claims of the business community over who is to blame for the VAT hiccups.

Following months of delay, the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has written Vreed-en-Hoop primary school head teacher Alvin Johnson stating that it has found no valid reason to vary its decision not to grant his application to be promoted to head Leonora Primary School.

In an effort to boost activities in the local mining sector the governments of Guyana and China on Monday signed an agreement to facilitate Chinese geologists working here.

A 31-year-old man yesterday collapsed and died in his yard at 64 Sixth Street, Alberttown and relatives believe he ingested a poisonous substance.