Guyana News

The Ministry of Education will launch a schools’ gardening competition on September 1 to start off a roster of activities for Education Month.

A Bourda Market vendor was yesterday charged with unlawfully wounding another vendor.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted $250,000 bail to a man accused of discharging a loaded firearm at another, when he appeared in court to answer the charge.

Regular feature writing on victims of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and consultations with youths and other stakeholders to find the best ways to highlight and tackle the regional epidemic were among commitments made by journalists last Saturday, at the conclusion of a two-day workshop in Barbados.

In keeping with government’s agenda on security at the community level, a workshop on the Regional System of Standardised Indicators in Peaceful Coexistence and Citizen Security was held on Tuesday to strengthen decision-makers’ capacity to make interventions to boost security.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon this morning said that the transaction between President Bharrat Jagdeo and businessman Ed Ahmad which saw the latter shipping some 29 tonnes of building materials to President Jagdeo at State House is a private one and only the two of them can speak on the issue.

The poultry producers association is assuring that there will be an adequate supply of chicken for Christmas.

(Trinidad Guardian) Come next Monday police officers have vowed to shutdown the country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The future of Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings now hangs in the balance after revelations that he tested positive for a masking agent, two weeks before the start of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has just over nine years of natural gas left, a new Ryder Scott Company audit report showed yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Amid reports that Afro-Caribbean people are in the forefront of London riots, British High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago Arthur Snell says it does not mean judgment will be passed on the rest of the Caribbean population.

A man died after a dilapidated wooden structure he was under at D’Urban Street came crashing down on him around 6:15 pm today.

(Jamaica Observer) Government has sought the help of an international expert to develop a national policy to stem the flow of small arms into the island — the prevalence of which has been blamed for the country’s year-to-year high murder rate.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks tumbled more than  4 percent today, almost wiping out gains from a relief  rally the previous day, as rumors about the health of French  banks sparked concern that the euro zone’s debt crisis could  claim new victims.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Lisle Austin  has been banned from all soccer-related activity for one year by  FIFA for taking his case to a civil court over CONCACAF’s  decision to oust him as acting president.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon this morning said that the transaction between President Bharrat Jagdeo and businessman Ed Ahmad which saw the latter shipping some 29 tonnes of building material to President Jagdeo at State House is a private one and only the two of them can speak on the issue.

The poultry producers association is assuring that there will be an adequate supply of chicken for Christmas.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican police yesterday refused to discuss an incident in the upscale St Andrew community of Jacks Hill, last Friday, in which a United States (US) diplomat was robbed at gunpoint of cash and “sensitive” US Embassy documents.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Parliamentarian Carl Breeveld will ask questions regarding the planned big infrastructural projects in Parliament in reaction on statements from Chinese Ambassador Yuan Nansheng.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Recently, President Desi Bouterse also revoked the casino license his predecessor Ronald Venetiaan had granted to Best Western Elegance Hotel.