Guyana News

ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s wife and three  of his children entered Algeria yesterday morning, Algeria’s  Foreign Ministry said, drawing criticism from Libya’s rebels who  said granting refuge to the family was an “act of aggression”.

Then US Ambassador to Guyana, David Robinson cabled Washington on the government’s termination of state advertising in Stabroek News in 2007 saying it was at best a public relations fiasco and at worst a misguided attack on press freedom.

(Trinidad Express) Former West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara has called on the media to immediately stop using his name in connection with the proposed detention centre at the stadium in Tarouba.

(Jamaica Observer) Carmelita Jeter of the United States beat Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown into silver in the women’s 100 metres final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea today.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Website asadeso.com provides a forum for victims of bad contractors and real estate agents.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The book ‘Van confrontatie tot samenwerking’ (From Confrontation to Collaboration … trans.),

(Barbados Nation) The problems of low-budget airline REDjet are continuing. But officials say regular services should resume by Wednesday.

The infighting within the PNCR and its leadership’s failure to verify the party’s voters list before its Biennial Congress in 2007 led then US Ambassador to Guyana, David Robinson, to conclude that the party was in a steady state of decline and that the PPP was Guyana’s only viable political party.

The extension of the roadway between the Demerara  Harbour Bridge (DHB)  and Parika on the East Bank of Essequibo to a four-lane highway is one of several initiatives which the government plans to embark on in the future.

Defence Board Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon approached the US Embassy for help to track guns that he believed were illegally imported and later ‘stolen’ along with AK-47s from an army storehouse in 2006.

As the lone female candidate so far to have tossed her hat into the presidential race, the United Force’s Valerie Garrido-Lowe feels she has an advantage because she brings different qualities to the table simply by being a woman.

In a briefing for a US energy official, the US Embassy said his 2010 visit had come at an interesting time as there were protests by miners over new mining regulations linked to the Low Carbon strategy and that an uncooperative mining sector could unhinge the related Norway forest deal.

Canadian company Guyana Goldfields is finalising a mineral agreement with the government as the company moves further along in opening its US$1B mine at Aurora, Cuyuni River.

President Bharrat Jagdeo used the airing of the FIFA World Cup 2006 on the National Communications Network (NCN) to boost his image, a US embassy cable to Washington posited.

Thirty community roads in the Haslington/Grove and Industry/Plaisance Neigh-bourhood Democratic Coun-cils (NDCs), Region 4, are to be rehabilitated soon following the signing of contracts at the various locations on Thursday afternoon.

An arrangement to have a house transported from Bush Lot to Lovely Lass ended in disaster on Saturday when the structure and the trailer carrying it both toppled into a trench.

Western businesses feared that the poor practices of Chinese companies in the forestry sector could become entrenched but were reluctant to work with senior government officials due to potential political ramifications.

Colonel Mark Phillips of the Guyana Defence Force has returned to Guyana after successfully completing  the 50th Advanced Course in Hemispheric Defense and Security at the Inter-American Defense College during the academic year 2010-2011.

Two time gold medalist in the 1500 metres at the Carifta Games Jevina Straker suffered a heavy defeat yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary as the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) hosted its annual Inter Guiana Games (IGG) Trials.

While fire hydrants remain a non-existent feature in Region Five, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) plans to procure additional water trucks from next year’s budgetary allocation.