Guyana News

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Within two months, eleven new ambulances will be stationed at clinics of the Regional Health Service (RGD).

(de Ware Tijd) NIEUW NICKERIE – The government is to make US$30 million available for the improvement of the rice farming infrastructures in Nickerie, Coronie and Saramacca.

Several ministers face a grilling at the next session of Parliament as a series of questions related to the Marriott Hotel, Amaila and other controversial projects are listed to be answered.

(Reuters) – Convicted swindler Allen Stanford should forfeit some $330 million stashed in foreign bank accounts, a jury found yesterday.

Human rights activist Karen de Souza was nominated by the US embassy here for this year’s International Women of Courage Award.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Paramaribo’s harbour is the most attractive option for French Guiana to process their containers and transport those overland.

(Jamaica Observer) Reggae music suffered another blow recently with the decision of veteran booking agent Peter Schwartz of the Agency Group, to cut back on the number of Jamaican artistes his company represents.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government and the World Bank will attempt to offer a bond to the Jamaican diaspora by Independence Day in order to tap into the US$5.4 billion (J$470 billion) annual savings of that group.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia’s one-day side had barely 12 hours to celebrate their Tri-series victory before departing for the Caribbean today and stand-in captain Shane Watson conceded there were some tired players in his squad.

MUMBAI, – India batting great and former skipper Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from international cricket today, saying it was the right time to “move on” and make way for the next generation of players.

A 42-year-old carpenter was yesterday morning murdered after he went to the rescue of some children who were attacked by a man who had become enraged after they threw water on him as part of their Phagwah merriment.

A Phagwah day road accident has left a three-year-old boy dead and his family in mourning.

In the backdrop of a bleak report on the future of Caricom, the intersessional Heads of Government meeting got underway yesterday in Paramaribo with ringing calls for fundamental change underlined by Suriname President Desi Bouterse’s appeal for a “new beginning”.

Gunmen on Wednesday night shot and injured  a vendor on North Road after terrorising and robbing two others  of over half a million dollars in cash and jewellery,  renewing calls by business persons operating in the Bourda Market area for police protection particularly at nights.

Remittances to Guyana in 2011 amounted to US$401 million, an increase of 7.2 percent over 2010, says a new report on remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Enmore Sugar Estate employees yesterday staged a strike at the Enmore Martyrs’ Monument in solidarity with fellow workers who were injured and had other health related issues that they feel are not being appropriately dealt with by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the National Insurance Scheme.

The St. Rose’s High School student who was on Wednesday evening shot and robbed of her cell phone in Thomas Street, Kitty will have to remain with the bullet lodged in her arm indefinitely since surgery now may cause further damage.

The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union yesterday said that the Ministry of Labour has appointed Francis Carryl, Chief Industrial Relations Manager, GuySuCo as the arbitrator in the dispute between it and Rusal subsidiary, the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI).

Through artists from the Caribbean, the Caricom Community Secretariat (CARICOM) used their half-yearly meeting of Heads of Government Conference in Suriname to launch a variety of products intended to bring public awareness to Gender Based Violence.

Regional health officers were urged to exercise greater care and accountability in managing resources in order to deliver the best possible health care.