Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) As the Ministry of Education makes J$10.3-million room in its budget to facilitate a review of Jamaica’s Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) by a consultant from overseas, local educators have pointed out that aspects of the national high school placement exam are age inappropriate.

A teenager was electrocuted while on a merry-go-round during a fair at Two Friends, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

A series of problems including a defective conveyor system has plagued GuySuCo’s Enmore packaging plant raising questions about its ability to operate at full capacity but a top official has said that the facility is functioning well.

A mother and her three children, who were allowed by her husband’s employer to occupy a recently purchased house, now have to look for another place to live because fire yesterday afternoon des-troyed the building at Agri-cola, East Bank Demerara.

Five men were taken by police for questioning yesterday after they were found removing goods from Halima’s Fashions on Regent Street.

Floodwater from overtopping and breaches in sections of the Essequibo River island of Leguan was receding slowly yesterday as residents expressed frustration at the continuing problem at almost each spring tide.

A bus conductor was on Thursday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court reprimanded and discharged after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton on a charge of behaving disorderly in a public place.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has identified a number of offences for which a traffic ticket may be issued, particularly to operators of motor vehicles, including motor-cycles, bicycles and animal-drawn vehicles.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has cleared the operations of several prospective mining and sawmilling companies, saying they will not have any significant impact on the environment.

Banks DIH Ltd has begun the renovation of a small building just north of its Campsite branch, where a new Quik-Serv outlet will service patrons of that branch after it would have closed down.

A year after 73-year-old Compton Lacon was fatally run over by a Mayor and City Council (M&CC) tractor and trailer, his family is still awaiting justice while the driver, who had fled the scene, is back on the job.

A  Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) emergency crew technician was on Thursday night shocked and suffered severe burns to his body while working on a utility pole at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara Eustace Abrams, 39, of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara was working with a crew fixing a faulty wire when the incident occurred.

The Ministry of Public Works on Wednesday received a ‘cherry picker’ and a tow truck, which were procured at a cost of $18M through a loan agreement with the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) and the Government of Guyana.

A couple had to pay dearly on Tuesday when a domestic matter  landed them in court and despite their wish to discontinue the case after deciding to work things out and move on they were both ordered to pay court costs of $50,000 each.

A man was on Tuesday denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton  in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded not guilty to using abusive language to his nieces.

An auto sales clerk was on Thursday accused of embezzling over $2M.

Guyana will be represented this year at the 3rd International Quranic Competition for memorization, recitation and interpretation of the Holy Quran by 18-year-old Muzzammil Ramzan Khan of Corriverton, Berbice.

Persons who suffered losses in the fire that gutted a seven-apartment building in Timehri two months ago, have been given additional assistance by officials of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Today the National Parks Commission will charge a  nominal fee for persons who wish to vend and those who will be bringing their vehicles (buses, cars, motorcycles) into the Botanic Gardens and Joe Vieira Park.

This week’s Classic Tuesdays film is British film director, Stephen Daldry’s   Billy Elliot (2000).