Guyana News

Wordsworth Castello, of Strathspey, East Coast Demerara, won the Gizmos & Gadgets ‘Green Machine’ promotion, which made him the owner of a new Mazda RX-8.

Chief Roads Engineer Leon Goring said preparatory works for the expansion of both the East Coast and East Bank four-lane highways are moving apace.

Police said that for the year of 2011 there was a 5% increase in fatal accidents, but the number of deaths was the same, while there was also a 57% increase in the number of children who lost their lives on the roadways.

A local cycling coordinator, suspected to have attempted to export some $20M worth of compressed marijuana to Barbados earlier this week, is believed to have fled to neighbouring Suriname, according to a police source.

Preparatory works began on Monday afternoon at the site designated for the construction of Guyana’s specialty hospital.

Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran yesterday challenged claims by the Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) that the quality of training in Guyana has declined but he promised to address several of its concerns.

Almost two weeks after an 18-year-old mother of two died of injuries she sustained during a botched abortion, relatives are calling on the doctor involved to come forward and a probe has been launched by the Ministry of Health.

Cabinet has offered its no-objection to several contracts including US$74,000 for the procurement of handheld explosives detection sets.

A large crowd gathered at the Sandy’s Funeral Home yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to four-year-old Antuane Lovell who was electrocuted by faulty GPL wires last December 28.

A taxi driver was yesterday arraigned on multiple charges stemming from Monday’s Bent Street robbery, in which he allegedly abducted a teen girl with whom he had shared a long-term relationship.

Police say that Sohan Busjit is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to robbery and murder committed on Delon Collins, a fireman, on 2011-12-24.

The Bahamas is launching a wage and productive survey that is expected to inform the country’s planning and development of labour force and training programmes and attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

In the wake of serious concerns about aviation accidents here, two safety seminars were hosted here by the civil aviation authority last month.

The crash-landing of a Caribbean Airlines plane here on July 31, 2011  was primarily due to the pilot making a “long landing” and having insufficient room to come to a safe stop, a statement from the civil aviation body here today said.

The police say there was a decrease of 8% in murders during last year when figures of 140 for 2010 and 129 for 2011 are compared.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Haiti is the first stop of President Desi Bouterse’s upcoming tour of CARICOM countries as the regional block’s chairman.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Jamaican paper Jamaica Observer harshly criticized President Desi Bouterse as CARICOM chairman in its edition of yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has spent over a quarter-million dollars to fly one its directors — Abhedanand Persad Sharma and his wife, Lisa Ramnarine-Persad — to India to accompany Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on her trip.

(Trinidad Express) Planning Minister Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie was part of a three-member audit team mandated to ensure good governance at CL Financial and must accept some responsibility for the conglomerate’s collapse.

(Trinidad Express) Acting Minister of National Security Herbert Volney yesterday described as “treachery” the leaking of a report by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley to discredit the alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three other ministers.