Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Contractors’ Association (TTCA) is “glad” that the Trinidad Cement Ltd wage dispute has been referred to the Industrial Court.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England batsman Kevin Pietersen has retired from all forms of one-day international cricket with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board said today.

(Trinidad Express) Transport Commissioner Reuben Cato said yesterday that corruption at the Licensing Division will continue unless the archaic system is computerised and modernised.

The Chinese government yesterday signed an agreement which the Government of Guyana receiving 30,000 laptops, costing US$8 million as a contribution towards the One Laptop per Family (OLPF) initiative.

Enmore Estate sugar workers yesterday refused to heed a call for a strike by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), which they accused of failing to adequately represent their interests.

Three miners were doused with gasoline and almost set on fire during the raid by an armed gang on a mining camp at Issano on Sunday.

After being forced to watch as a bandit shot her husband during an attack on Monday, Corentyne resident Farida Dhanraj, 47, is ready to sell her property and move to start over somewhere else.

Local authorities are preparing for a showdown over  roads under construction in the Amelia’s Ward housing scheme, in Linden, which bear signs of major defects.

Officials of Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc remain tight-lipped about the sale of shares Jonathan Brassington, brother of Head of the Privatisation Unit Winston Brassington, as the transaction and the circumstances that led to it continue to be speculated upon.

By John Richards Fifty-two-year-old Mathilda Leone is one of Guyana’s veteran porkknockers.

Two young men who were convicted of the September 2000 murder of a nine-year-old boy and later sentenced to imprisonment at the President’s pleasure were on Monday freed by the Court of Appeal.

The AFC is insisting that the government seek international assistance to address comprehensive reform of the security sector, following the brutal attack last Wednesday on 20-year-old Police Constable Kelvin George at Monkey Mountain while he was trying to effect  a lawful arrest.

A new refrigerator for the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) mortuary was among those tenders for which bids were opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is making it easier for citizens to help stop crime by inviting them to submit information online or using their Blackberry phones.

The conduct of the recently held elections for Toshaos and village councils has shown various anomalies and discrepancies, says the Amerindian  Peoples Asso-ciation (APA).

As part of its activities for Blindness Awareness Month, the Disabled People’s Network (DPN) of Region Five on Tuesday held an exercise to sensitize drivers of minibuses that they should not discriminate.

V G Siddhartha, owner of the Coffee Day group which controls 1.82 million acres of forest in Guyana through one of its subsidiaries has said that a processing centre for logs will be set up here but the main facility will be in India.

Almost one month after being in the dark, households at Mabaruma and other communities connected to the electricity grid in the Region One area began receiving electricity earlier this week.

Two 11-year-olds from Aroaima and Hururu and a 10-year-old from Kwakwani have been announced the winners in the Bauxite Company Guyana Inc (BCGI) UC Rusal Art Competition, which was recently introduced to the children of three villages to highlight the need for best safety practices among its employees.

A delegation of four persons from the labour sector, including Minister of Labour Dr Nanda Kishore Gopaul is attending the 101st session of the International Labour Conference.