Guyana News

The VB New Approach General Construction Company awarded workers for outstanding service, while its Christmas party provided a forum for political banter where the proprietor renewed his pledge to source contracts only through the proper channels.

The Youth Coalition for Transfor-mation (YCT), the youth arm of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), on Friday urged Guya-nese to prepare for a year of street pressure combined with intense parliamentary activity to secure a number of demands.

A 43-year-old miner was on Friday shot and killed during an argument at Enachu, Cuyuni, North West District.

On entering the village of Meten-Meer-Zorg one encounters a series of canals, a reflection of the grid-like order imposed upon the coastal landscape by the drainage patterns of the sugar plantation.

A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Tuschen accident victim Puran Ram on Friday revealed that he died as a result of multiple injuries.

The five persons who were arrested in relation to Sunday’s gruesome murder of 74-year-old Mahaica farmer Ramlogan Singh, called ‘Tun Tun’ have all been released as police continue to hunt for the killer/s and the motive.

‘B’ Division Commander Stephen Merai has said that the directive given to divisional commanders against speaking to the media was an “irresponsible move.”

(Trinidad Express) WORKS Minister Jack Warner yesterday called on residents to oversee road repairs as, in the new year, poor work by contractors will have to be redone or payments will not be made.

(Trinidad Express) The man accused of setting fire to a Laventille apartment complex, which claimed the lives of three children, a woman and an unborn baby girl, was last night charged with four offences of murder and causing grievous bodily harm to eight other people.

At about 1815h yesterday, police say that Mark Narine, 19 years of Jacklow, Lower Pomeroon, was piloting a boat with two other persons inside when it is reported that the vessel struck a log in Abrams Creek, Upper Pomeroon, and capsized resulting in his demise.

A businessman was shot yesterday after a robber on a motor bike attempted to pull him out of a minibus on Mandela Avenue and the police later wounded a suspect in the attack during a confrontation at Eccles.

Two men died in a Kitty fire early this morning and another man perished in a Corriverton blaze around the same time.

(Trinidad Express) The economic situation in Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the Caribbean remains very fragile and suspect to external shocks, Minister of Finance Winston Dookeran has told an international audience of finance experts.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Having India shake off  their image as home-track bullies is one of captain Mahendra  Singh Dhoni’s goals as he bids to lead his team to a  breakthrough test series win in Australia.

The police say they are probing a report that during yesterday, miner Oscar De Roche, 43 years of Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, WBD, was shot and killed during an argument with another man at Enachu, Cuyuni.

Newly appointed Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says he is not in favour of the Skeldon factory being completely managed by foreigners but indicated that the matter will be addressed by GuySuCo’s new board, which is expected to be appointed before the end of the year.

An employee and six men were yesterday charged with Wednesday night’s $10M armed robbery at the Western Union outlet on Church Street.

While Madhuri ‘Sharda’ Padumdeo’s husband remains in police custody, their families have been trying to determine the best solution for their two-year-old son, who now has neither his mother nor father to care for him.

Fifteen persons lost their homes when fires, suspected to be electrical in origin, gutted two homes at Betsy Ground and Reliance, in East Canje, Berbice yesterday.

Vice Chairman of APNU Dr Rupert Roopnaraine said that Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Dr Steve Surujbally has offered to make available the hard copies of Statements of Poll should this become necessary to satisfy the party’s need to have all certainty that the elections count is beyond reproach.