Gaulbert Sutherland

Repairs on the section of the Boerasirie Conservancy Dam that slipped were yet to begin up to yesterday morning though workers were preparing the materials.

Reports of “nuggets of gold” being found around the remote Region Nine community of Para Bara have sent residents in surrounding communities in a frenzy with many heading or making plans to trek to the forested area, according to reports from the region.

Seafood company, Pritipaul Singh Investments’ (PSI) has been condemned for safety violations in the June fire aboard its vessel which resulted in the death of a crew member and left another missing and presumed dead.

A final date has been given for the complainants and witnesses in the trial of three policemen accused of severely wounding a 15-year-old boy during a murder investigation to present themselves to the court or the matter would be dismissed.

Maintaining a balance between preservation of traditional ways and development is the goal of the Wapichan (Wapishana) Amerindian nation of the remote Rupununi Savannahs who are formulating plans to take control of their development.

Much vaunted plans to grow mushrooms – the type of initiative being targeted in the Grow More Food campaign by the government – have failed to ignite interest and the project has been abandoned while the edible fungi continue to be imported to satisfy local consumption.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has been reaching out to several countries in an effort to attract investors and capital, its President, Clinton Williams, says and he also pointed to a range of problems hampering businesses.

The exploratory ‘Jaguar 1’ oil well to be drilled offshore Guyana next year will be the deepest ever drilled in the region, at a depth of four miles, officials of Spanish oil giant, Repsol said as the company formally opened its Duke Street office here last evening.

Volda Lawrence: `There are sinister movements in terms of contracts because the Auditor General staff went to a particular institution: couldn’t find a wall, couldn’t find windows, couldn’t find grill work but then after he went back subsequently, after they came before PAC, the wall appeared, the windows appeared, the grill work appeared.

Guyana’s deforestation rate tripled over the past year and was calculated at 0.06%, compared to the average deforestation rate of 0.02% since 1990 and given recent trends it may continue to rise, according to a new report prepared under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement.

Celebrating 25 years of existence, President’s College basked in the glow of being the number one school in the country as it held its 20th graduation exercise yesterday.

Khemraj Ramjattan was yesterday ratified as the Presidential Candidate for the Alliance For Change (AFC) with co-founder Sheila Holder selected as the Prime Ministerial candidate after Leader, Raphael Trotman declined

Nothing stirs within the thatched houses that occasionally crack the forested monotony along the upper Pomeroon River.

– European-funded work 31% completed As construction giant, BK International proceeds with multi-billion dollar sea defence work it has asked the authorities to review some projects where the designs are for mass concrete seawalls, arguing that the rip-rap design would be better.

-see great need for cannery, depot ‘We nah get market… We nah getting price’ (This is the ninth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign) In his laden citrus grove in the Pomeroon, Rudolph Gobin fixes a shirt on a stick and clangs a crude bell.

– despite focus on stepped up farming, exports (This is the eighth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign)Many days the Parika Pack House is silent with little activity inside the vast building.

Bandits early yesterday shot a young couple during a robbery at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara and also terrorized other members of the family, assaulting them and later in the day, in phone calls, threatened to return.

`These initiatives have had limited, if any, success, however, because they have been prepared and executed in isolation from other policies.

– over $20M in Banks DIH cargo stolen West Demerara residents looted the grounded vessel Davie 11 on Sunday night and an Uitvlugt fisherman drowned as he moved between the vessel and the seawall.

-harrowing experience for crew A boat transporting Banks DIH products to the Essequibo Coast sprung leaks and had to be grounded at the Stewartville, West Coast Demerara shore late Saturday night.