Guyana News

A taxi driver was killed during the wee hours of yesterday morning in a collision at the intersection of Robb and Wellington streets.

Veteran broadcaster Ron Robinson was last evening hospitalised at Georgetown Public Hospital following a motorcycle accident.

(Trinidad Express) – Trinidad national Ravindra Ramrattan was among several people killed in a terrorist attack and siege at a Kenyan shopping mall that entered its third day yesterday.

Neither the President nor any member of his cabinet has any form of authority to make interpretations of the Consti-tution enabling them to state with authority that legislation passed in the National Assembly was unconstitutional, says former Chief Parliamentary Counsel Bryn Pollard.

Murder accused Tyrone Rowe also known as ‘Cobra’ yesterday said that he was innocent and knows nothing of the charge levelled against him.

The family of Vanessa Seeram is still awaiting word from police on whether the mother of two, who was discovered in a chair at her De Hoop Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) residence with a belt wrapped tightly around her neck, took her own life or was killed.

The police have taken statements from the two women ‒ one a Trinidadian ‒ who were rescued by the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) and the Ministry of Human Services & Social Security last Friday evening from 14 Miles in Region 7 where they were being forced to remain by a shop owner until they paid off increasing debts.

In a quest to encourage Guyanese to live healthier lifestyles so as to the prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases, which are placing a burden on the health care system and causing deaths, the Ministry of Health last week launched the ‘Fit it, Weight No More’ health and wellness campaign.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc has issued a warning against the dumping and burning of garbage near its new Sophia Sub-Station.

Works are slated to reinforce recent repairs to the collapsed Supenaam stelling access way later this week, following which a review of the structure will be undertaken.

The Caribbean region has seen the sharpest reduction in new HIV infections since 2001 at 49% but discrimination, limited access to treatment for vulnerable groups and violence against women, which is a key factor in vulnerability to the virus, are hampering national responses.

A Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice couple yesterday appeared before the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court charged with neglecting and ill-treating their nine-year-old son and with disorderly behaviour.

With the first shipment of fertiliser from Venezuela under the PetroCaribe Agreement missing its mid-September deadline the Agriculture Ministry is promising the arrival of the 5,000 tonnes of urea by the week’s end.

The Guyana Water Inc’s (GWI) Georgetown Sanita-tion Improvement Programme (GSIP) has now begun work at the Princes Street and Louisa Row junction.

In observation of Education Month and in keeping its objective of improving children’s literacy the Guyana Book Foundation donated over 18,000 books to 133 schools in three regions.

A new Conservative government will take power in Norway next month and questions are being raised about the future of the Nordic country’s climate initiative given its almost US$700 million in unspent climate forest aid including to Guyana.

Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA has donated over 100 books to the optometry programme at the University of Guyana.

At the Blairmont Court yesterday, Magistrate Rondell Weaver placed a Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice man on $175,000 bail on charges of break and enter and larceny.

Four persons are in custody assisting detectives with brutal murder of Yadram Jaggai, called Muffy, 36, of Lot 254 Number 48 Village, Corentyne.

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday remanded a 22-year-old to prison after he appeared before her to answer to a charge of robbery under arms.