Guyana News

Two members of the Women and Gender Equality Com-mission have supported calls for Police Commissioner Henry Greene to resign from his post while the commission’s chair says that the matter would be discussed at its next statutory meeting slated for the last Wednesday of this month.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) declared yesterday that the impending consultation on corporal punishment, sexual orientation and the death penalty must be rights-based and called for a good faith role by the government.

APNU Region 10 representative, Vanessa Kissoon on Tuesday called on the government to re-examine the 2012 Budget to ensure that the region benefits financially as she highlighted several ills plaguing the constituency which she represents.

There are fish in the aquaculture ponds at Tobago Hill, even though they may be difficult to see, according to the Amerindian Affairs Ministry, which yesterday accused Toshao Edmund Santiago of contributing to “misleading” reports about the project.

Wilson Chan, who was accused of murdering his reputed wife Loretta Ramoutar, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter when the trial continued in the High Court yesterday before Justice Franklyn Holder.

The lifeless body of 47-year old Yeuryodan Haindarshan of 93 Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was pulled from a canal at Enmore North on Tuesday after he went missing for a brief period.

Suresh Seetaram and Pawan Kumarie Kheran, the parents of the 18-month-old rat-bitten toddler who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday, cannot be located and the grandmother of the child has denied that she was living under tough conditions.

The opposition and government on Tuesday evening sparred over the handling of the country’s health sector, with APNU member Dr George Norton chiding the PPP/C administration for mismanagement of the health sector.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday said that the government is not fighting for control of Parliament, only proportionality in the representation on the Committee of Selection to reflect last year’s general elections results.

Alliance For Change’s (AFC) Moses Nagamootoo has come under fire for an example that he gave in Parliament during the budget debate on Tuesday, when he described speaking to his grandchildren in a rough manner, much to the chagrin of government MPs.

Opposition Leader David Granger on Sunday reiterated  his promise given during the 2011 General and Regional elections campaign to work towards making Bartica a town, as he was declaring open ‘Bartica Regatta, 2012’.

Calling for better representation of the poor and vulnerable, APNU’s Volda Lawrence proposed that the 2012 budget be amended to offer a minimum old age pension of $10,000 per month.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett yesterday made an oral presentation in support of Guyana’s  submission for an extended continental shelf to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York.

Relatives of the 17-year-old who died and lost her full-term baby recently while in the care of the  Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) were joined by activist Mark Benschop and his colleague Malcolm Harripaul in a brief demonstration in Linden yesterday as they called for justice for the family.

The family of 13-year-old Dexter Marshall, who was electrocuted early Monday while riding on a merry-go-round at a fair, is still awaiting an autopsy.

More than one hundred less fortunate children were overjoyed when they received free kites from the Aditya Kids Trust Fund

A man who unlawfully and maliciously wounded his reputed wife of six months was yesterday fined $15,000 in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court by Magistrate Allan Wilson.

Four armed, masked bandits on Sunday evening robbed a Bush Lot, Corentyne family of $1.1M in cash and jewellery during a power outage in the village.

The Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Inc, based in New Amsterdam which is gearing to increase its transshipment of bauxite with the expansion of RUSAL, is preparing to welcome President Donald Ramotar today.

Wildlife exporter Trevor Singh was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $75,000 or serve one month in  prison by Magistrate Allan Wilson after he pleaded guilty to exporting 35 birds comprising three different protected species under the Environmental Protection Act.