Guyana News

The combined Opposition yesterday again voted against $79.6 million in four items of supplementary expenditure in Financial Paper 9/2011 and in reacting to this, Minister of Finance Dr.

New branches of King’s Jewellery World and Homeline Furnishings Departmental Store were opened on Wednesday in Rose Hall Town, Berbice.

Kevin Bevney, a taxi driver, was yesterday charged with the possession and trafficking of narcotics, after allegedly being held with cannabis during a police search.

Linden residents are mourning the loss of one of their own after he perished in an accident along the Ituni, Upper Berbice River road, which also resulted in several other residents, including the driver of the truck, being injured.

From the start of next month, Lindeners will begin paying higher electricity rates, in keeping with the plan by government to gradually scale-back its subsidising of the cost in the mining town.

In order to cushion the effect of the rise in the price for chicken locally, the Commerce Ministry has granted approval to 12 persons to import chicken.

Government, in a bid to improve the environment, will soon be enacting legislation to ban the importation of non-biodegradable material including Styrofoam and plastics and increase litter penalties, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

Approximately 2,500 people flocked to the National Stadium yesterday, where the Ministry of Housing (MOH) and the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) launched the first of a series of “One Stop Shop” house-lot allocation exercises for the year.

Pamela Lashley, the woman who accused the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) of negligence in the death of her 12lb baby has not engaged the hospital’s administration, after being persuaded not to by relatives as a result of her poor health.

A labourer, who was allegedly found with cocaine during a search at a Corentyne road block, was yesterday arraigned on charges of possession and trafficking of cocaine.

Superintendant of Police Watts and Senior Superintendant Alves were on June 4 arraigned on charges connected to the December 6, 2011 shooting of APNU protesters with rubber bullets on Hadfield Street.

The family of Ade Doobay is claiming that he was doused with ‘acid’ as a result of a row between him and another man over an article appearing in several daily newspapers.

Educator Lavern Thorne is the latest Guyanese to be awarded a full scholarship under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Scholarship programme to read for an International Masters in Early Childhood Education and Care at the Oslo and Akershus University in Norway, the EU delegation in Georgetown said in a press release yesterday.

The University of Guyana (UG) unions participating in ‘Operation Rescue UG’ have ruled out taking any industrial action while consulting with the UG administration about an increase in salaries and on the ongoing problems they have been faced with.

A 26-year-old man accused of assaulting and attempting to rob another was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Digicel Guyana is this evening launching a new customer promotion with a free party at the Tower Poolside.

The Region Five administration has made $9M available to begin repairs to the deteriorating road at Burma, West Coast Berbice, which is used primarily by truckers who transport paddy to a rice milling facility in the area.

Guyanese Dr Vibert Cambridge, Professor Emeritus, School of Media Arts and Studies, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University, will be the featured speaker at a breakfast lecture sponsored by the Guyana Media Proprietors Association (GMPA) Inc next Saturday.

Kenneth Bissoondyal, 55, who had been remanded for seven days after he confessed to assaulting his wife of thirty years, Kuntie Gopaul, was reprimanded and discharged on Wednesday by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Court.

A woman accused of falsifying her passport application was on Wednesday placed on $85,000 bail when she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.