Guyana News

The Guyana Press Associa-tion (GPA) supports the view that universal access to information must be pursued as Guyana continues to be challenged by the government monopoly over the granting of radio licences.

President of the Guyana Public Service Union, Patrick Yarde, says a  dark cloud is looming following what he said is the government’s obvious lack of conscience shown through its political spin regarding the $21 billion in cuts by the joint majority opposition to the national budget.

Mahendra Dharma, the man who was shot three times on Tuesday when he gave chase behind a gang that had moments earlier robbed his family, has been discharged from the New Amsterdam Hospital though the pellets remain lodged in his legs.

Following the gruelling budget tussle, Parliament is to reconvene on Thursday May 10th when a series of opposition motions will come up for debate including one in the name of APNU MP Carl Greenidge to have the Former President’s (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act 2009 repealed.

A man appearing in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on four charges lost his chance at being granted bail when Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton found out that he was in violation of a previous bond.

The decomposing body of eight-year-old Devon ‘Luke’ Gibson, who disappeared last Saturday following a swimming expedition at the Kingston Seawall, washed up at the Hampton Court foreshore, Essequibo Coast early yesterday morning.

A CDN$250 million Canadian Climate Fund which will be managed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will finance private sector climate mitigation and adaptation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean that need concessional financing to become viable, the IDB said yesterday in a news release.

Police are still searching for the minibus operators that evicted a sickly Kelroy Kazer, of Paramakatoi, who died on the Versailles Public Road afterward.

Jerome Piggott of 18 Mile, Rockstone, Essequibo was yesterday brought before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on an indictable charge of attempted murder.

The condition of the 12-year-old, who was on Tuesday struck down by a minibus on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara public road, has worsened.

A Partnership for National Unity has scheduled a series of meetings in Georgetown.

Leader of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GBGWU) Leslie Gonsalves said over the last two decades Region 10 has borne the wrath of the PPP government because of its political choices, but like all Guyanese, they have a right to chart their own course He was speaking on Tuesday to a sizeable crowd assembled at the Linden/Georgetown minibus park for the annual May Day rally.

The curtains came down on the Linden Town Week celebrations on Monday after the an-nual programme of workshops, concerts, which this year coincided with observances for the town’s 42nd anniversary.

The Campbellville, Kitty, Industry and Enmore Polyclinic health centres which fall under the management of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation will become child-friendly centres, with designated child–friendly spaces.

A male and a female contractor yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accused of assaulting each other and were put on bail.

(Trinidad Express) There are still elements in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) who do not want Chris Gayle to return to the regional team.

(Barbados Nation) The man accused of killing his estranged wife will spend his first 28 days on remand after he appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court today.

GILBERT, Ariz.,  (Reuters) – A gunman, identified by local media as a prominent border militia leader and a reputed neo-Nazi, shot dead four people including a toddler girl in Arizona today before apparently committing suicide, police said.

A Partnership for National Unity has scheduled a series of meetings in Georgetown.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang this afternoon threw out the Constitutional Motion brought by government to challenge the numerical make up of parliamentary select committees saying that the court had no authority.