Guyana News

Budget talks between the government and opposition appear to be effectively dead with APNU spokesman on finance Carl Greenidge saying that the time available between now and the laying of the budget leaves no opportunity for meaningful and full discussions even as the government accused the coalition of being “dishonest” about proposed talks.

The St Joseph Mercy Hospital says it will release a statement today on the recent deaths of a young mother and her newborn baby.

Three persons are in custody following the Saturday morning robbery and killing of security guard Chandrabhan Persaud who was found bound and gagged at the Lucky Dollar Rose Hall branch.

One hundred and three residents from several housing areas in Region Three were on Saturday presented with keys to their homes under the Government’s core home initiative which targets single parents, the differently abled and the elderly.

An arch in memory of the 11 Lusignan residents murdered in January 2008 was last night commissioned in the East Coast village.

A serving member of the Guyana Police Force has faced various hardships after trying to get to the bottom of the fatal shooting of her son by police last October at Dundee, Mahaicony.

The fishermen who were arrested and kept at the Anna Regina Police Station in relation to cargo found on their boat believed to have been taken from the sunken vessel Stollie 1, have been released.

The verification of Guyana’s deforestation rate for Year 3 of the Guyana-Norway forests protection partnership has been completed and is expected to be released soon.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Saturday said that it will move to have every act of torture or shooting by the police over the last 20 years investigated.

Permanent Secretary of the Culture Ministry Alfred King says that he was not aware of an annual subvention for Lichas Hall in the Ministry’s budget, weeks after committee members of the theatre said that the hall was receiving a subvention since 2008.

The renovated People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) office in Linden will be an active on.

In just over two weeks’ time, international and local musicians will perform in what is billed as the first world musical festival in the Rupununi.

Appointments made overseas, such as in the case with the Honorary Consul for Guyana in Mumbai, Dr Ajeenkya DY Patil, are usually not publicised locally but the information is updated on the Foreign Ministry’s website, an official said.

Head of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes has called for greater protection and more responsive law enforcement for women miners.

At about 0700h yesterday, police say that the body of miner Rupert Gray, 31 years, was found in a camp at 23 Miles, Issano Backdam, Mazaruni, with a piece of rope around his neck.

Popular designer Trevor Rose was this morning shot dead after a gunman opened fire on the car he was in which had stopped at the traffic light leading into Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

 By Jeff Trotman Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon yesterday repeatedly called on the people of Region Ten to hold the government accountable for the deaths of three men during the 32-day Linden electricity protest and to honour the agreement it signed with regional leaders to stop the protest.

Stories and photos by Shabna Ullah Residents of Sandvoort, an agricultural village in West Canje, Berbice whose residents are close-knit, have been involved in self-help activities from the inception.

A gathering of high school friends at the Princess Hotel ended tragically last evening when 17-year-old Shamar Edwards drowned in the hotel’s pool.

A security guard was discovered dead behind his work site in Rose Hall Town in the wee hours of yesterday morning; he had been bound and gagged.