Guyana News

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Acting Chief of Police Humphrey Tjin Liep Shie guarantees community need not doubt the police.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The European Union (EU) is closely monitoring developments in Suriname involving the upcoming amendment to the 1989 Amnesty Act, and will issue a joint statement on its official position once the amendment has been approved, Dutch Foreign Affairs minister Uri Rosenthal said after the cabinet meeting Friday.

Rarely, in the last decade, have West Indian cricket fans found themselves with so much reason for cheer.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Police are reporting that Richard Hylton alias ‘Hunk-a-gold’ and ‘Ritchie’ was fatally shot about 5:45 yesterday afternoon during a shoot out with cops along Dumbarton Avenue in St.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday unveiled a $192.8B budget that included gigantic allocations totalling $10B to support the cash-strapped GuySuCo, GPL along with a hike in the income tax threshold to $50,000 and modest rises in public assistance and old age pensions.

A bail-out budget was how the opposition parties de-scribed the Donald Ramotar administration’s $192.8 billion budget yesterday and Opposition Leader David Granger said it lacks vision and does not cater to the needs of the poor.

Government will inject $4 billion into sugar this year since although there was an increase in production last year output continues to lag in comparison to projections and industry finances are being negatively affected.

VAT and Excise Tax raked in $53 billion in 2011, an increase of 9.7 percent over the takings of 2010, in a year when the Guyana economy recorded 5.4 percent growth, with the non-sugar economy achieving even more rapid growth at 5.6 percent.

Gold continues to lead Guyana’s economy, raking in US$517.1 million from exports last year and the industry is projected to expand this year.

Even as the Guyana School of Nursing prepares to more students come early next month, many are expressing concern at the staggering 80.5% failure rate among its last batch.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang’s decision to quash the Director of Public Prosecutions’ advice to charge Police Commissioner Henry Greene with rape yesterday drew protests.

Nezaam Ali, the Muslim scholar who was charged with sexually molesting three boys, yesterday faced two new charges.

A Cane Grove rice mill, which has been at the centre of a dust pollution row for years, was yesterday given a one-month ultimatum by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to remedy the problem or face being closed down.

Long-awaited arbitration involving RUSAL-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GBGWU) slated for next week has been stalled because the company has taken the matter to the high court.

A section of the railway line embankment at Foulis/ Paradise, on the East Coast of Demerara, caved in last night and residents accused authorities of failing to take action.

Construction of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) is anticipated to commence by the end of the third quarter of this year, with government proposing to provide US$80 million of equity to the project from money earned from the forest partnership with Norway.

Government has allocated $16.2 billion to the continued modernisation of the security sector in this year’s budget and the Joint Services will receive a large percentage of this sum to purchase equipment.

Some $4.5 billion has been set aside in this year’s budget for the upgrade of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) as part of the government’s modernisation plan.

President’s College defeated Mae’s Secondary School in the final of GT&T’s ‘Know your stuff’ quiz.

In what has turned out to be a massive recycling effort, Marian Academy students have collected over 396 lbs of plastic bottles for recycling over the past three months.