Guyana News

Although Chinese firm Haier Electrical Appliances Ltd is still looking for land to set up an assembly plant here, it has started expanding its range of products available to the local market.

A woman is now hospitalised after she escaped a fire at Buck Hill, Wismar, Linden

The mother of a 16-year-old Sophia girl is begging her to return home after she went missing last Thursday.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has strongly denied claims that it was in any way responsible for the deaths of two newborn babies whose mothers died during delivery last month and linked the infants’ short life spans to poor health at birth.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds is re-tabling a motion to have the National Assembly ensure that Members of Parliament submit annual declarations, in keeping with the requirements of the Integrity Act.

Housing Minister Irfaan Ali has warned that a group of fraudsters have been forging property transports by posing as ministry officials and their victims so far include an overseas-based Guyanese, who was bilked of $1M.

Residents from Eccles through Providence on Friday sounded their concerns about the operations of the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), saying that resources could be saved if it acted more efficiently in addressing issues instead of waiting for them to deteriorate.

Region Seven Chairman Gordon Bradford’s support of the newly-installed Interim Management Committee (IMC) for Bartica has raised eyebrows in light of APNU’s opposition to it.

In a report on page 3 of our edition yesterday captioned ‘Optimistic CGX moves on to Eagle Deep well,’ CGX CEO Keith Sully was reported as saying that the target at the company’s 25 per cent owned concession being drilled at the Jaguar I well will be a major discovery.

By John Richards Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud recently urged residents of Mahdia to take a stand against the trafficking of young girls, even as he expressed disgust at the situation.

Every day 42-year-old Padmawattie Faikall with her five-year-old son in tow heads to the Anna Regina car park where they stand in the rain or the blazing sun begging for most of the day before returning home to count the day’s ‘earnings’.

Investigations into an aircraft incident in which a light Cessna C150 aircraft crash landed in a rice field on the Essequibo River island of Wakenaam last November found that the plane had run out of fuel.

US county judge in Tallahassee, Florida, Judith Hawkins, had many firsts when she became a judge in 1996 as she was the first African-American in the Second Judicial Circuit elected in a contested election, the first African-American county judge and the first African-American female county judge.

Guyana is not one of the countries which will suffer from the cut-back of funding to fight HIV and AIDS, TB and malaria by Global Fund, as it has already received an invitation to apply for money under Phase 2 of the fund’s Rolling Continuation Channel (RCC), Director of the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) Dr Shanti Singh said.

PPP Executive member Ralph Ramkarran says the abolition of jury trials should be strongly considered as too many convictions are being overturned on appeal owing to several factors, including inadequate summing up by judges.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A flotilla of 1,000 boats will sail London’s River Thames on Sunday in a spectacular highlight of four days of nationwide celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne.

MILAN, Italy,  (Reuters) – Environmentalists today urged film diva Sophia Loren to help stop a big cruise ship named in her honour from ever entering the Venice lagoon because of potential damage to the city and the lagoon’s delicate ecosystem.

A family of 10 is now contemplating where they will rest their heads at night  after fire completely destroyed their Buck Hill, Wismar, Linden home this afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Confessed bigamist Dexter Alexander yesterday called for help for other men who may find themselves married to more than one woman at the same time.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were yesterday freed by an Arima magistrate of murdering a 24-year-old Guyanese national two years ago.