Guyana News

As the water level in the Mahaicony Creek keeps rising so are the losses for rice and cash crop farmers and they are wondering how they will be assisted during this disaster.

The decomposing body of a man, suspected to be one of four missing fishermen who were on a rescue mission, washed up on the Hampton Court foreshore, Essequibo Coast yesterday morning.

Two armed bandits posing as customers yesterday carted off an estimated $15 million worth of gold and diamond jewellery from the Ram’s jewellery store at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice (WBB) but one of them was later held under the Berbice Bridge with a gun and some of the loot.

University of Guyana (UG) lecturers yesterday began a sit-in to protest the recent dismissal of lecturers, including Freddie Kissoon, and the conditions at the Turkeyen campus.

A 28-year old motorcyclist of Hosororo Hill, North West District (NWD) died on the spot last night after crashing into a parked truck on the public road in the area.

A Crabwood Creek woman was last evening in a critical condition at the New Amsterdam hospital, after she was brutally attacked by a lone intruder at a Corentyne rice depot.

An 18-year-old man who damaged his grandmother’s  utensils and threatened to burn her house down because she warned him about the type of music he was playing was yesterday sentenced to serve time in jail after he pleaded guilty when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Benita Fredericks, the 13-year-old Essequibo girl taken from her parents’ home two weeks ago, was found yesterday after being seen boarding a boat at the Alfro Alphonso Wharf at Charity with the man that had been holding her captive.

The Ministry of Public works has submitted a budgetary requisition for another dredge to aid the work now being done by vessel Steve N, which has been in operation since the early 1980s.

Seven children and one adult will be leaving Guyana on Friday for Max Hospital in India where they will be undergoing medical treatment.

The British High Commission is inviting young professionals to apply for the Chevening Scholarship for the 2012/2013 period.

Stabroek News in yesterday’s edition incorrectly reported that the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) received over 3000 reports of sexual abuse last year.

The Caricom Council on Human and Social Development (COHSOD) at its 22nd Meeting in Georgetown last week agreed to establish a Regional Task Force on Sports Tourism to develop a strategy for harnessing the region’s potential in sports for development.

Ex-PNCR parliamentarian and broadcast veteran Anthony Vieira is calling on the opposition to use its majority to pass a motion immediately rescinding radio licences that former President Bharrat Jagdeo granted in his last days in office.

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) on Friday handed over kitchen utensils, groceries and other items to seven families who suffered losses due to fire at Timehri and a Buxton family whose home was demolished when a tree fell on it.

The price for Banks DIH shares traded on the local stock exchange has increased and Chairman Clifford Reis has said it is an indication of the confidence of investors in the company’s performance, a Banks DIH press release stated.

The Canadian High Commission formally presented the newly upgraded food processing facilities to the Helping Hand Women’s Group in St Ignatius, Region Nine on Thursday.

Residents of Lusignan East ‘Double Road’ are blaming Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited (CBCSL) for the rapid deterioration of their road, due to the amount of heavy-duty vehicles traversing the area on a daily basis.

Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs says the task of preparing the Order Paper for sittings of the National Assembly is his and not the Parliamentary Management Committee, as posited by former Minister of Finance in the PNC administration Carl Greenidge.

President Donald Ramotar and leaders of the two Opposition parties in Parliament met at the Office of the President yesterday and those engagements have been described as devoid of roadblocks and non-contentious as they continued to speak on a range of issues just days hours before Friday’s sitting of Parliament Up to last night, this newspaper was awaiting the release of an official joint statement from Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira, who said that she had been awaiting clearance from all the parties for the statement’s release.