Guyana News

During the tenure of Ronald Gajraj as minister of Home Affairs many items needed by the Guyana Police Force were procured through the ministry instead of through the force following consultations between the commissioner of police and his senior officers, according to former police commissioner Winston Felix.

A father of two  was initially placed on $60,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday to answer a charge of unlawful assault against his daughter.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in partnership with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), and Non-Governmental Organisations launched a three-year strategy on Friday to encourage the involvement of more youths in community volunteerism.

Devon Duggin was fined $15,000 on Friday for threatening his nephew.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) hosted its first Farmers’ Exchange Programme/Field Day at a five-acre plot in Wakenaam on Thursday to showcase crops cultivated from its 10 new rice strains and improved management practices.

The Georgetown and Consumer Affairs Commission has been tasked with administering the Competition and Fair Trading Act (CFTA) and the Consumer Affairs Act to foster a fair business environment and protect consumers.

Banks DIH Limited on Thursday presented a refrigerator to the Bartica Day Care and Drop-In Centre run by the Regional Women’s Affair Committee of Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), the company said in a press release.

Brian Singh and his relative Julianne Avela  will have to pay $5,000 each as costs for wasting the court’s time when they appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday on charges resulting from a family fracas.

President Donald Ramotar has lauded late president Dr Cheddi Jagan’s ability to communicate “the most sophisticated of dialogues” to the masses, in his feature address at the launching of a publication of speeches Jagan made during his tenure as a Member of Parliament.

Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali says although 98% of the coastland population enjoys access to water, Guyana is also known as a country that wastes this natural resource and there is urgent need to change this practice as water needs increase globally.

A man who reportedly fell off a motorcycle near a Brazilian restaurant in Georgetown succumbed on Friday and police are investigating the matter.

While the opposition cannot add to the National Budget set to be delivered by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Friday, Leader of the Opposition David Granger says with the new dispensation in Parliament an avenue for real debate had been created.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environ-ment says setting up a global outfit to provide consistent technical and financial support is crucial to forest conservation efforts.

Magistrate Sueann Lovell on Friday remanded a man to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer a charge of burglary.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the strike at Trinidad Cement Ltd enters its fifth week, the Claxton Bay-based cement producer is being pushed closer and closer to the brink of financial collapse, which could throw thousands of workers on to the breadline, disrupt the country’s construction drive and an important part of its manufacturing sector and lead to tremors among the country’s financial institutions.

(Trinidad Express) The son of San Fernando East Member of Parliament Patrick Manning said his father is expected to be back in the country in a month’s time.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A major earthquake hit central Chile today, shaking buildings in the capital of Santiago and prompting residents to run out of their houses, though there were no initial reports of injuries or serious damage.

(Windiescricket.com) GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia – To a cacophony of noise, Darren Sammy treated a capacity crowd packed to the brim with his countryman to a pyrotechnic display, but West Indies narrowly failed to win the rain-affected fifth and final Digicel One-day International against Australia on Sunday, sinking to a 30-run defeat.

(WICB) Gros Islet, St Lucia – The Board of Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board met in St Lucia on Saturday March 24th.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar, who will turn 39 next month, is in no hurry to retire and the prolific Indian batsman has refused to rule himself out of the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.