Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Government has been warned that the impending closure of the Almond resorts in Barbados can hammer the proverbial nail in the country’s economic coffin.

(Barbados Nation) Fists flew again. Now local basketball has itself another black eye.

The 13th annual Caribbean Tourism Organization conference yesterday opened in Georgetown with its keynote speaker lauding Guyana’s effort to lead in sustainable tourism while urging stakeholders to take advantage of the adventure and eco tourism trajectory this country offers.

-suspect held at airport A 24-year-old taxi driver was yesterday gunned down execution-style in front of his Dennis Street, Campbellville home and relatives suspect it was the result of a triangular affair.

Be on your toes.  This is the message from AFC Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan to opposition parliamentarians as a vote on the budget nears and as they plan to bring amendments to certain legislation in the future.

There are “serious limitations” in the 2012 Budget with financial experts yesterday expressing concern that an accurate fiscal picture is not being presented and raising questions including on the whereabouts of $33 billion that was supposed to be transferred to the Consolidated Fund.

The leader of the Linden Civic Society (LCS) says he disagrees with the decision of the government to gradually remove the subsidy for electricity in the mining town.

New Member of Parliament for the Alliance For Change (AFC) Catherine Hughes spoke out against the allocation in the budget for the Government Information Agency and the National Communications Network while noting that organisations like Help and Shelter and the David Rose School receive next to nothing.

Attorney-General Anil Nandlall says that the opposition parties are “in confusion” on the Henry Greene issue and accused them of adopting “impulsive positions.”

Persons with HIV in Guyana are living longer lives, have a better quality of life, less morbidity and are back in the productive workforce, according to the findings of an evaluation of the National Strategic Plan 2007-2011, looking at the area of care and treatment.

APNU Member of Parliament James Bond has called for Government to review laws to make it easier for persons to sue for wrongful imprisonment and Police brutality, having himself been a victim of this on December 6, 2011 when he and others were shot with rubber bullets.

Cash-strapped, low-cost carrier REDjet is seeking financial assistance from Guyana to help it get back into the air, according to a report in yesterday’s edition of the Barbados Nation.

Minister of Natural Re-sources and the Environment, Robert Persaud has rejected as “flawed” an analysis by forester John Palmer that purpleheart  in Guyana’s forests is being unsustainably managed saying that concessionaires are only achieving about 31% of annual sustainable production.

A 62-year-old man was yesterday taken into police custody after his neighbours reported to the police that he was seen committing a sexual act with a 13-year-old girl in his backyard.

An elderly man and his wife were on Saturday last attacked and robbed of $1.2 million at their business place at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara.

A wide cross-section of practitioners in the field of HIV, including National AIDS Programmes and civil society, will attend the second meeting of the Technical Working Group on HIV Prevention at the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters at Turkeyen from  today.

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee yesterday stated that former Commissioner of Police, Winston Felix still has in his possession  Government’s property in the form of a radio that is tuned into the police frequency.

BOSAI and Republic Bank Limited recently made financial contributions to support the activities of Linden Town Week (LTW) 2012.

A 12-year-old Tucville boy sustained severe injuries about his body yesterday morning after he was struck down close to his home by a speeding taxi.

A repeat drug offender from Blue Berry Hill, Linden was sent to prison for two years and nine months and fined $45,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.