Guyana News

The National insurance Scheme fulfilled their promise of paying pension benefits to former sugar worker Ronald Collins who was declared dead in the company’s computer system.

A Trans Guyana Airways Britten Norman Islander skid off the runway at Port Kaituma late this morning while attempting to land during rainy weather.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kuti Ra of Greater Portmore, St Catherine, passed six subjects in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams at the age of 12.

(Barbados Nation) Deputy Opposition  Leader Dale Marshall thinks that Barbados has changed from a prosperous nation to one where there “is an overpowering sense of poverty and helplessness”.

(Barbados Nation) A comprehensive review of the Barbados sugar industry has been conducted for the Barbados Government by Landell Mills Ltd, one of the world’s leading international development consulting firms.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt withdrew its ambassador from  Israel today, saying that the killing of five Egyptian  security personnel as Israeli forces pursued cross-border  raiders was a breach of its 1979 peace treaty with the Jewish  state.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Waqar Younis will quit  as Pakistan coach for medical reasons after next month’s tour of  Zimbabwe, he said today.

Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud yesterday said that GuySuCo does not have the competence to run the troubled US$100M Skeldon factory and he urged the corporation to speed up consideration of proposals by Indian and Chinese companies to run it.

Harold Rachpaul, 84, owner of the Rachpaul’s Drugstore on Robb Street, Georgetown, was found dead, gagged and bound in his home early yesterday morning.

Three persons, including a woman, are in police custody at Linden in connection with the murders of Daniel ‘Danny’ Higgins, 48, and Daniel ‘Biggie’ Higgins, 22, at a Konawaruk mining camp in Mahdia.

Police were yesterday granted three more days to detain the Enmore couple and their two teenaged children following the discovery on Tuesday of cocaine in metal receptacles used in Hindu functions.

The main opposition PNCR yesterday accused the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) of “reluctance” in releasing full particulars of registration applications coming out of the recently-conducted Claims and Objections (C&O) exercise.

Although that there is a limited supply of lumber available on the local market, the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion (GFC) says no decision has been taken to ban the export of logs/lumber.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday held the sod turning ceremony for a US$ US$38,963,861 substation on Mandela Avenue.

GuySuCo and GAWU yesterday formally signed on to an agreement which would see sugar workers getting a 5% pay raise, which the Agricul-ture Minister hoped would lay the basis for production of 300,000 tonnes of sugar next year.

Although Karen Kerr has refused to give investigators a statement about the ordeal during which she was allegedly shot twice by her partner, two lawyers say that options available to the police include asking a court to force her to give evidence.

A mother of four, who said that she could have been killed on Thursday night, continues to live in constant fear while charging that the police remain reluctant to heed her cries for safety.

A Linden taxi driver was killed late Thursday night in an accident along the Rockstone road, which left him pinned under the vehicle.

Devon Semple, who stole bicycles from his neighbour on two separate occasions, was yesterday ordered to serve a total of five years in jail.

A man is now facing the possible amputation of his left leg, after being involved in a head on collision on Thursday morning at Barrack Street, Kingston.