News

Banks DIH Chairman and Managing Director Clifford Reis said the social and business climate which has prevailed in Guyana over recent times has tested the faith and resolve of every Guyanese and business entity.

Jane Ivy Thompson, who died in an accident last week Sunday, had told her son-in-law to “take it easy” on the road and while he obeyed her, an apparently reckless driver overtook another vehicle on the busy East Bank roadway and slammed into their car.

Trainee rangers and environmentalists from the North West began a one-month training exercise last weekend, as tour guide operators at the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development.

Little is known locally about the specific mental issues people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) face, but depression and isolation are reported to be among them.

Veteran journalist Cecil Griffith was yesterday laid to rest following tributes by colleagues and friends celebrating his life and legacy at the St George’s Cathedral, as they remembered him as a stickler for professional standards.

The Rose Hall, Canje Ground came alive on Saturday night when 18 singers, backed by the Shakti Strings Orchestra, participated in the semi-finals of the 2007 Mash Soca Chutney Competition.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee is yet to receive the report of a board of enquiry that he had established to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding last month’s jail break at the Mazaruni Prison.

The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) at its inaugural meeting last month, agreed to recruit a director and to urgently establish its secretariat within the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce.

As the investigation into the murder of Mark Ritchie which occurred last week Tuesday at Kuru Kururu on the Linden Highway continues, a suspect took police to a farm cultivated with cannabis in the Kuru Kururu Backlands.

Eighteen-year-old Kevon Washington had his life cut short on Sunday afternoon when he drowned at a mined out lake in Block 22, Wismar, Linden.

Caricom delegates at the Twentieth Special Meeting of the Caricom Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) agreed that the region must make a direct response to the trade challenges it faces.

The government is also seeking “an amicable and honourable solution” to the proposed sale by IAMGOLD of its 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) and Omai Services Inc (OSI), a press release from the Office of the Prime Minister said yesterday.

Two men yesterday robbed businesswoman Zabeeda Azeez of $12,000 in cash and jewellery at Lot 55 Stanleytown New Amsterdam Berbice and shot her son in the process.

As part of the measures to improve the quality of the streets of Guyana the Police Traffic Department has implemented four compulsory lectures which persons writing the theoretical examinations are required to take.

A new in-patient facility at the public hospital, further expansion of primary health approaches to chronic diseases and continued development of the immunization programme are among the key objectives budgeted for this year in the health sector.

With assistance from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Campbell-ville Environmental Development Association has set up a solar-powered pedestrian crossing light near the Campbellville Secondary School.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said yesterday’s early morning, three-hour power outage was the result of a system shutdown in the 50 Hertz Demerara cycle.

The Trinidad Express is advising President Bharrat Jagdeo not to tilt his administration in any direction that is going to attract comparisons with the Forbes Burnham regime during the mid-sixties and mid-eighties.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) commends the government for the steps it has taken to bring immediate and tangible relief to consumers who were severely affected by the impact on the cost of living due to the implementation of Value Added and Excise taxes.

Sharmaine Gift, Mark ‘Super Markey’ Harris and Winston ‘Pecky Dread’ Bradshaw, along with Delroy ‘DMD’ Dash who was a no-show, were the first four contenders to be eliminated from the first round of the Carib Soca Monarch competition on Saturday.