Guyana News

The construction worker who was injured by a pile of zinc sheets, he was meant to replace at the Gafoor’s Complex in Houston, East Bank Demerara, on the 12th January, sustained an injured spine and fractured skull and left upper cheekbone.

Accused of concealing 33 pounds of cocaine in 15 packets of powdered milk, American-born Jermaine Lowe was refused bail and remanded to prison when he appeared yesterday in court.

Audwin Amsterdam, a young police constable who was attacked by his neighbour on Sunday, yesterday underwent surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital for a severed right knee.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday chastised Education Ministry Permanent Secretary Delma Nedd for continuously failing to sanction officers who approve payments to contractors for substandard and/or incomplete work.

ChildLink yesterday signed an agreement with the European Union (EU) for a €200,000 grant for its ‘Empowering Children in Difficult Circumstances’ project.

The Guyanese Organisa-tion of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP) in a release has deemed the deafening silence by state funded groups such as the Indigenous Peoples Com-mission, Women’s and Gender Commission, Rights of  the Child Commission and National Toshaos’ Council on the recent murder of 17-year-old Theiana Andrews as most appalling.

The Public Accounts Committee Sub-Committee on the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has received around 20 nominations for the PPC, including that of Mayor Hamilton Green.

The $50 million Harold B Davis Special School was yesterday commissioned at the Ptolemy Reid Rehabil-itation Centre (PRRC) during a simple ceremony, at which Rehabilitation Offi-cer Cynthia Massay announced that the name was chosen to honour former chairman, Harold B Davis, who was the longest serving chairman of the school board.

The National Assembly last Thursday passed legislation which is intended to create a steady flow of adequately trained and certified surveyors and establish a board which will regulate the profession.

An allegedly handicapped man, accused of robbing a man while armed with an ice pick, was granted $150,000 when he appeared at the reopened Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Avenue of the Republic and Brickdam yesterday.

Trevor Parks, accused of attempting to traffic over 4 kilogrammes of cocaine out of the country through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) last Friday, was remanded to prison when he made an appearance at a city court yesterday.

Police Constable Kirk Profitt who was shot early Saturday morning by two men is recovering in the Male Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital after undergoing surgery.

The question of the late payment of prize money to winners of last year’s National Drama Festival (NDF) has to be answered by the festival director, the Ministry of Culture said, charging that there were discrepancies in the budgetary submissions.

Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) is looking to have its 26-megawatt power plant at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara commence commercial operations by the end of July after unprecedented civil works pushed the cost of the project up an additional US$6 million – US$9 million.

State TV, National Communica-tions Network (NCN) registered a profit of $75.9M for 2011 mainly on the back of its government subvention of $70M but its annual accounts for that year earned a qualified opinion over a whopping $913m in non-current assets which could not be verified.

The mother of four-year-old Jaden Mars is waiting for the investigation results from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation into the child’s death.

The conclusion of a paper committal at the Charity Magistrate’s Court yesterday saw an Essequibo man committed to stand trial in the High Court for the rape of a child under the age of 16.

A 52-year-old man was yesterday placed on $10,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Charity Magistrate’s Court charged with using abusive language.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) is urging the government to mount a formal probe into the allegations made by the Regional Democratic Council Chairman of Region 10, Sharma Solomon that the committees established under the agreement that brought an end to the Linden protests in 2012 have achieved little to date.

GDF Special Forces Officers arrived at the site of the wreckage of  a Trans Guyana Airways plane this morning a little after 7 am and found both of its occupants  Canadian pilot, Blake Slater and cargo handler Dwayne Jacobs dead.