Guyana News

The Environmental Protection Agency is currently monitoring the tailings and pond discharge of Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated (BMGGI)  in Linden which has increased reportedly by heavy rainfall last Thursday.

The parliamentary opposition yesterday signalled plans to proceed with cuts to the budget estimates if necessary despite a ruling yesterday that previous reductions were unconstitutional.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday welcomed the ruling by Chief Justice Ian Chang that the opposition’s slashing of the 2012 budget was unlawful.

A 14-year-old student of the Richard Ishmael Secondary was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was repeatedly stabbed about her body by another student.

By Jeff Trotman The long-delayed seven-member Board of Directors of the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN) was inaugurated yesterday in the Macaw Conference room of the Region Ten Business Centre, Linden by Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh.

At about 1500h yesterday, Talesha Persaud, 7 years, of No. 71 Village, Corentyne, was struck down by a motor vehicle on the No.

Works began yesterday for the construction of the controversial US$18M Specialty Hospital at Turkeyen, on the East Coast of Demerara, where local firm BK International is laying the foundation.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has said that if marijuana possession is not to be decriminalised, then the sentencing policy for narcotic offences needs urgent revision.

The Caribbean Vulnerable Com-munities Coalition (CVC) and the Centre for Integral Orien-tation and Investigation (COIN), yesterday announced the first round of CVC/COIN grants in Guyana, under the ‘Caribbean Vulnerabilised Groups Project’.

By Kenesha Fraser A number of residents of Tapakuma, Essequibo Coast, are calling for justice following their eviction from their ‘Food For The Poor’ homes last Saturday by the village council.

The remaining two of the four men charged with the 2011 fatal shooting of Robb Street resident Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, 72, were on Tuesday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

A Linden miner was yesterday fined $25,000 after pleading guilty to assaulting the mother of his child over a borrowed mp3 player.

A miner was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $45,000 when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with stealing $45,000 worth of items in Mahdia.

Chief Executive Officer, Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA) Dr Vishwa Mahadeo has announced that equipping the Bara Cara Health Centre with electricity and water would be a priority this year.

Charged with conspiring to insert forged Guyana immigration stamps on an Antigua and Barbuda passport in an effort to visit his ill sister in Canada, a Berbician man was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail after appearing before the Chief Magistrate.

A man who was allegedly caught with more than 200 grammes of cannabis during a routine police patrol at Mahdia was yesterday remanded to prison when he made his first appearance in court.

The public policy group, GNCPP on Friday engaged the US Embassy on Guyana’s civil society status and role in governance.

A Grove man was brought to court on Tuesday on a charge of breaking into his neighbour’s apartment and stealing his television.

The knowledge-base of 34 Guyana Defence Force officers and other ranks was enhanced as a result of professional training obtained at external institutions during 2013.

The current drainage system at Diamond/Grove on the East Bank of Demerara is set for upgrading as the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority on Tuesday received six bids for the expansion of the sluice there.