Guyana News

The Ministry of Health is defending the close to $40 million losses in expired drugs identified by the Auditor General as an accumulation of drugs over a five-year period, coupled with the inability of the relevant authority to destroy them on time.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand says ministry views the Auditor General’s report as a management tool and will do its best to ensure that the pronouncements made in the report are addressed and that there are no repeats.

A reduction of the value added tax (VAT), an increase in wages for nurses, teachers and police officers and a significant allocation of resources towards the Guyana Police Force are among the features that the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) hopes to find in the upcoming national budget.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is appealing for “appropriate rectification measures” to alleviate a number of conditions which it says constitute the plight of public servants serving in remote areas of the country.

Photos by  Anjuli Persaud The residents of Waiakabra, Linden/Soesdyke Highway are calling on the relevant authorities to regularize the former squatting area so that they can access the basic necessities for survival, which are potable water, electricity and a proper road.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) commemorated World Tuberculosis (TB) Day yesterday under the theme ‘Stop TB in Our Lifetime’ with various events that included a health walk in the National Park and information booths country-wide.

Five months after a Foulis, East Coast Demerara businessman was killed during an armed robbery his relatives are still struggling to cope with the loss and are peeved that the police are yet to apprehend the killer.

Sydney Allicock – APNU This is the twelfth in our series on new parliamentarians A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian Sydney Allicock believes that the new dispensation in the National Assembly creates an avenue for politicians to “attack the issues rather than personalities and try to bring back that good name that Guyana really deserves.”

Two Berbice residents last Monday pleaded guilty to illegally transporting fuel and were fined $400,000 bringing the matter which has been before the court since 2007 to a conclusion.

Fifteen years after a farmer was found dead in a shallow grave in the Strathavon, Cane Grove, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara backlands, relatives are still waiting on the police to make an arrest.

VIKAB Engineering Consultants is no longer operating in this country, a source has confirmed, even as a report lays some of the blame for the bungled section of the Supenaam stelling at that company’s feet, while advising that it should be called upon to compensate for non-performance.

Sterling Products Limited recorded an after-tax profit of $113 million for 2011 compared to $94 million in the preceding year.

Two late local theatre icons, Frank Thomasson and Godfrey Chin, were on Monday remembered at a ceremony held at the Theatre Guild Playhouse.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will fly back to Cuba to begin radiation treatment for cancer tomorrow, but said he was in good shape and would be back home in several days.

(WICB) GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia – West Indies will be playing Sunday’s fifth and final Digicel One-day International against Australia like a “grand final”, according to all-rounder Andre Russell.

On March 19, 2012, Lendrick Ramdowar and Steve Ramdowar, both of Bath Settlement, Berbice pleaded guilty to the offence of transporting petroleum in bulk quantity without the requisite licence, a statement from the Guyana Energy Agency today said.

Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur in a recent interview with GINA said that the authority will be increasing its efforts to bring to justice tax evaders, specifically those who are professionals.

(Barbados Nation) It took Barbados only two days to complete an easy victory over Windward Islands and assure themselves of a semifinal place in the WICB regional four-day cricket competition.

Sterling Products Limited recorded an after-tax profit of $113 million for 2011 compared to $94 million in the preceding year.