Guyana News

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.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A Haitian government panel has urged the president to appoint an interim commander to take charge of former soldiers, a panel member said on Saturday, as the leader of a successful 2004 uprising warned that ex-members of the military could seize power.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – A state resolution is being drafted to lower the number of students allowed in a classroom at all levels, from kindergarten to senior high (VOS).

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – During Friday’s closed session of Parliament, it was decided to include the views of the Nieuw Front on amending the 1989 Amnesty Act in the final report of the reporting committee.

During yesterday, police ranks conducted a search on a mining camp at Dukwarri Landing, Cuyuni, during which they found an unlicensed 12 gauge shotgun and three cartridges, a release from the police force said.

YANGON, (Reuters) – Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament today, her party said, after a historic by-election that is testing Myanmar’s nascent reform credentials and could convince the West to end sanctions.

(Barbados Nation) One of the longest serving heads of the Electoral & Boundaries Commission (EBC) is not happy that some people who live in Barbados for just three years can vote in general elections.

Fire-fighters this morning battled to contain a fire that destroyed a building housing six stores on Regent and Wellington Sts.

(Barbados Nation) Immigration authorities say while the problem of illegal Guyanese appears to be coming under control, they are now trying to come to terms with an influx of Jamaicans, including several young women willing to get involved in marriages of convenience.

(Barbados Nation) Two weeks after REDjet announced the temporary suspension of all flights, a top official of the struggling Barbadian-based, low-cost carrier has sounded the official death knell.

(Trinidad Express) A multi speciality team of radiation experts tasked with conducting a medical evaluation of patients exposed to radiation overdoses, ranging from four to 20 per cent more than had been prescribed for them at the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre (BLCTC), have found clinical evidence of “severe radiation injury”.

The residents of Bartica in Region Seven are against the dissolution of their Neigh-bourhood Democratic Coun-cil (NDC) and are calling for the long-awaited Local Government Elections to be speeded up.

Known as one of the gateways to the interior, Itaballi Landing is a small mining and logging community perch-ed on the bank of the Essequibo River and a short boat ride from Bartica.

A 17-year-old due to deliver her first child yesterday died while being ambulanced from Linden to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Government will invest $3.6 billion in the housing sector this year and has also allocated $2 billion to improve the quality of water supply.

A teen was late yesterday afternoon air dashed to the city for medical attention after he miraculously survived a mining pit cave in at Eye lash backdam earlier in the day.

At 76, New Jersey-based Guyanese Sirimatti Persaud is still eager to share her skills in sewing and is currently doing so at Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, where she is conducting free classes.

We regret that there is no Business Page this week. This column will return next week.

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ramesh Dookhoo welcomed this year’s $192.8 billion national budget, saying that measures taken in 2011 to address needs of the private sector have borne fruit, while calling for continued incentives.

Assuria, a Surinamese insurance company, has opened two companies in Guyana – Assuria Life Inc and Assuria General Inc – hoping to fill the void left by the exit of Clico; and President Donald Ramotar sees this collaboration as an example of countries in the region investing in each other’s economies.