Guyana News

(Jamaica Observer) Prominent St Andrew doctor, Lloyd Cole was arrested and charged last weekend with procuring abortions on the weekend.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court charged former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two daughters with illegally staying in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in jail, their lawyers said today.

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) were this morning fighting to save the life of a 20-year old Sophia miner who was shot during a robbery at his home.

A morning fire of unknown origin yesterday flattened a building at the corner of Regent and Wellington streets, destroying six businesses and leaving millions of dollars in losses and several dozen persons jobless.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has come out strongly against Chief Justice Ian Chang’s recent dismissal of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ (DPP) advice to charge Commissioner of Police Henry Greene with rape calling the ruling “profoundly disturbing.”

To effectively fight the scourge of domestic violence it must be treated and given the same attention HIV/AIDS has gotten, says Justice Roxanne George who has also called for a cost to be placed on this rising epidemic as has been done with the virus.

Six women were among those murdered since the start of the year and in almost all the cases the deaths were extremely brutal and bloody.

The fraud being probed involving a purported representative of a foreign mining company and Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) staff points to “systemic collusion” and is “very worrisome,” according to a senior official in the sector.

Government anticipates spending $11.8 billion this year to sustain and improve roads and bridges including $2.4 billion for the upgrade of 85 kilometres of existing roads and construction of 110 kilometres of virgin roads from Mabura Hill Road to Amaila Falls.

While the contractor for the US$43 million Chinese-funded transmission and distribution upgrade project might be the same one that built the troubled Skeldon sugar factory, CEO of Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Bharat Dindyal says he is not worried that the work would not be done properly since supervisory measures are in place.

FITUG (Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana) has welcomed this year’s $192.8B  budget as a “pro-worker budget”, citing in particular the 25% increase in the income tax threshold.

The Canadian Executive Services Organisation (CESO) recently collaborated with the Guyana Art and Craft Producers Association (GACPA) on a three-week ceramics workshop intended to encourage small businesses.

Residents of Moraikobai, the only Amerindian village in Region Five, 94 miles up the Mahaicony River, received a 15hp Yamaha outboard engine from government on Thursday, and it will be used  primarily to transport schoolchildren.

President Donald Ramotar on Friday visited the two offshore oil rigs, REPSOL and CGX offshore Guyana, and he has expressed optimism for an oil discovery.

The $5M burner at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) remains out of service even as ‘sharps’ –needles, scalpels and other sharp-edged instruments used in the facility- are piling up.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sport Minister and member of the Congress of the People (COP) Anil Roberts has chastised his own party, saying it is being operated no different from the People’s National Movement (PNM).

Government is working on a plan to get low-cost carrier REDjet back in the skies.

(Jamaica Observer) The bodies of two unidentified women were yesterday found in bushes in Spring Garden, St Catherine.

(Barbados Nation) Embattled policyholders are not only shaking their heads at the prospect of losing big chunks of their investment in the collapsed CLICO International, but are losing confidence more and more each day in future private investment and Government regulation.

(Barbados Nation) “The worst experience of my life!” That is how 23-year-old Shonae Proverbs summed up her two-day encounter at the hands of Immigration officials two weeks ago at Grantley Adams International Airport.