Guyana News

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.

At 18 many young girls would be looking forward excitedly to their future, but for Tammy (not her real name) her future seems grim and as she puts it, “there is nothing to look forward to.”

Police are still hunting for the suspect in the shooting death of 26-year-old Special Constable Quincy Wrights on Friday night during a confrontation with another man who visited his girlfriend’s home in Guyhoc Park.

Recent discoveries of high powered arms and explosive devices in the hands of civilians is a sign that we are in a dangerous situation, says Opposition Leader David Granger who believes that a shakeup of the upper command of the Home Affairs Ministry and a reform of the Guyana Police Force is the best solution to this problem.

Plastic City squatters are rapidly leaving the Best Village foreshore to build their houses after being granted land last year but a few who remain on the muddy garbage-strewn shore say that they cannot afford the price of house lots.

“The inability of the system to meet the test of the law which the system itself has established,” is a major impediment to overcoming the crime and security challenges, notably the drug challenge, confronting Guyana and the rest of the region, Guyanese-born regional security specialist Dr Ivelaw Griffith told the Stabroek News in an interview on Monday last.

Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira says that the $300 million Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) Project should in its entirety be put on hold and government and USAID representatives discuss the crafting of another project.

A restaurant employee was shot to the abdomen yesterday morning by a lone gunman who attempted to rob the Water Street business where he works.