Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 2, 2019

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has made good on his promise to re­vamp the process for ob­tain­ing a firearm user li­cence.

(Trinidad Express) A Siparia woman who moved to Tobago for a better life has gone missing.

(Jamaica Observer) Police say sharks hindered the recovery yesterday of the body of a 26-year-old Northern Caribbean University (NCU) student — one of two beachgoers who drowned at Frenchman’s Bay in Treasure Beach, about 20 miles south of here, on New Year’s Eve.

Attorney Christopher Ram says that the mandatory language of Article 106 (6) of the constitution required that the President and Cabinet resign immediately on the passage of the December 21 motion of no confidence.

Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, on Tuesday in Brasília met with Senior director of the United States National Security Council’s Western HemisphereAffairs, Mauricio Claver-Carone.

Several persons have so far been arrested in relation to the robbery which left two Bushlot, Corentyne farmers dead on Monday evening.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – On the 60th anniversary of Cuba’s revolution, ruling Communist Party leader Raul Castro blasted the Trump administration for returning to an outdated path of confrontation with the island nation and of intervening in Latin America.

Over $600 million is spent annually on procuring chemicals to treat the water supply, Managing Director of Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Richard Van West-Charles revealed on Monday and he said that the utility intends to significantly reduce this cost by using new filter technology.

An immigration tribunal two Fridays ago ordered that former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) employee Peter Ramcharran be deported from Canada but his attorney, Kaisree Chatarpaul, said on Thursday that he will be challenging that decision in Federal Court.

Plans to construct a four-storey building as part of the expansion of the Mazaruni Prison had to be scrapped owing to water availability and fire hazard concerns, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said last month.

The Ministry of Finance has employed a new Finance Secretary in the person of Michael B Joseph.

More than two years after nurse Sherlyn Marks complained about the abuse of prescription medication by a Region Five councillor, there have been no repercussions for the persons ensnared in the matter and whistleblower legislation is still to be activated despite being passed.

The Access to Information Act which empowers Commissioner of Information Charles Ramson Sr does not provide for him to be fired for the offence cited by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo.

Opposition Member of the Standing Committee on Constitutional Reform Anil Nandlall is of the firm view that the Constitutional Reform Consultative Commission Bill is a mere façade and its referral to the committee a charade to quell public pressure.

Residents in villages along the East Coast of Demerara are now breathing a sigh of relief following the intervention by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in relation to complaints of the odour emanating from the poultry and pig farms in their communities.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MOPI) has begun the installation of four wind measurement stations along the Atlantic Coast at a cost of more than $33.5 Million (US$160,000) to determine the potential for the generation of energy from this source.

A Corentyne man who was remanded to prison just over a week ago after being charged with having two unlicensed guns as well as ammunition for the guns in his possession, was granted bail when the matter was called again yesterday.