Guyana News

(Trinidad Guardian) Two attorneys have refused to represent alleged child-molester Abdul Samad who is accused of buggering a five-year-old boy and three teenagers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke said the Government is now formulating an ambitious plan to put 500 acres of land into rice cultivation by July and another 1,500 by December.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Aiming to provide greater transparency and accountability for its operations, the Office of the Director of the Public Prosecutions (DPP) will today launch the document The Decision to Prosecute: A Jamaican Protocol at the Norman Manley Law School at the University of the West Indies in St Andrew.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Wilhelmus de Bekker, bishop of Paramaribo, admits in an interview with de Ware Tijd that his statement about Bouterse supporters was unnecessary.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Organization of American States (OAS) will provide technical assistance to Suriname with establishing a truth and reconciliation commission related to the December murders and other crimes committed in the 1980s.

(Barbados Nation) Following four major industrial fires in the last five years, the Barbados Manufacturers Association (BMA) will launch a forensic audit of more than 70 industrial companies across the country.

(Barbados Nation) After more than two weeks of waiting for their pay, REDjet workers have been told they’ll get at least some of their money by next week.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud says Guyana will very soon be receiving the third tranche of funds under the Guyana/Norway forest agreement, as the country is on course to meeting all of the conditions.

Human Services Minister Jennifer Webster yesterday declined to comment on embattled Police Commis-sioner Henry Greene’s conduct but stressed that persons holding public office should act in a proper manner—even as AFC MP Khemraj Ramjattan called for an appeal of the court’s decision to dismiss the advice to charge him with rape.

Vice-Chairman of the main opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Dr.

An argument over a hammock has left a miner from the Five Star Backdam, in the North West District of Region One dead, in the latest incident that has raised concern over the growing violence in the interior area.

A father of five was last night struck dead by a car on the Vryheid’s Lust Public Road as he was returning home, mere minutes, after bidding the friends he had visited good night.

The government is anticipating that the defects in the troubled multi-million dollar Skeldon Sugar factory will be remedied this year, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says.

The lifeless body of a security guard was discovered in his Fifth Street, Alberttown home by his brother on Wednesday.

Four Guyanese returning home from overseas have been attacked and robbed by armed bandits during the last few weeks and according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud investigators are on the verge of cracking these cases.

A number of GT&T customers in Section “B” and Plum Park, Block “E” Sophia are without telephone service as more of the company’s cables in the area have been vandalised in a wave of attacks.

A fuse box explosion is suspected to be the cause of the La Parfaite Harmonie fire that claimed the lives of two children

Word out of the National Assembly on Wednesday that government is holding to its budget decision to gradually remove the subsidy for electricity in Region 10 sparked another street protest in the mining town yesterday, this time with hundreds turning out.

While the AFC plans to support some aspects of the 2012 budget, MP Dr.

The Visually Impaired Cultural Association of Guyana (VICAG) yesterday donated $20,000 to eleven-year-old Paula Ann Cottam to help her to undergo vitreo retinal surgery in Trinidad.