Guyana News

National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) head Lionel Wordsworth is denying that there is any financial impropriety involved in $200 million being unaccounted for, as investigations continue and the two officials embroiled in the mismanagement of the money remain off the job.

The dentist who extracted the tooth of a man, who later died at the Georgetown Public Hospital of haemorrhaging and a blot clot in the brain, believes his life could have been saved if he had seen a specialist while admitted to the facility.

General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis, has accused the government of “trafficking in persons” in the wake of Wednesday’s mass protest of public servants.

A veteran politician but a brand new face in the National Assembly, APNU’s Desmond Trotman believes that the partnership’s central focus should be the development of a government of national unity, and he feels that is how the populace voted in the November 28 elections which resulted in the PPP/C becoming a minority government.

By Mandy Thompson The drying of shrimp along the Zeeburg seawall has raised significant concerns among residents, and students and teachers in the area as the stench of the shrimp shells has become unbearable, preventing some residents from opening the doors of their homes.

Former security guards attached to the United Associates Security and Domestic Services (UAS&DS) on Friday protested for salaries owed to them for the last three months and insurance and tax contributions withheld by the company.

Juncata Juvant, an organisation which provided services to involuntary re-migrants, has been forced to close its doors because of lack of funding, the organisation’s former president Joseph Harmon said.

Almost eight years ago Kumeshwar ‘Mike’ Mohan and his siblings survived being poisoned by their father after he had murdered their mother; their father had then committed suicide.

Adrian McInman is a travelling psychologist who helps people to find “their happiness,” since according to him it is the one thing people want in their life more than anything else.

A woman was shot in her ankle early yesterday morning during a gunpoint robbery at her North Ruimveldt squatting area home.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma more than a week after he lost consciousness and has attempted to communicate with family members at his hospital bedside, the BBC reported today.

CIUDAD JUAREZ,  (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed and at least one seriously wounded in a suspected drug-related shootout on Friday in a bar in northern Mexico, a region that has been brutalized by fighting between criminal gangs.

Notice has been given by Parliament Office of a motion in the name of AFC MP Khemraj Ramjattan for the establishing of the independence and the authority of the National Assembly.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Minister Jim Hok of Natural Resources (NH) is concerned about the layoffs announced by Suralco.

(WICB) Roseau, Dominica — It has been a long journey from the playing field at the Rose Hall Cricket Club to the West Indies team, but Assad Fudadin has made that journey and now he is looking to take more strides forward.

(Trinidad Guardian) Assistant Superintendent of Police Joanne Archie says school bullying is on the increase and perpetrators can face criminal charges and even imprisonment.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname is strongly opposed to legalizing drugs.

Police say that at about 0005h today, gold miner James Williams, 33 years, and his reputed wife Precious Hunte were at their home at North Ruimveldt Squatting Area, Georgetown, when they were aroused by noise in the house.

(Jamaica Observer) The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has released a protocol document in response to the clamour by members of the public for transparency and accountability in the Jamaican justice system.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Alleged leader of the Montego Bay-based Stone Crusher gang, Eldon Calvert, who had been in custody for four years on a triple-murder charge, has been freed because of the alleged fabrication of evidence.