Guyana News

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Rahul Dravid received a surprise  recall to India’s one-day squad after a two-year absence while  selectors left out the injured Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh  for the limited-overs series against England.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A NATO helicopter crashed during a  battle with the Taliban in  Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. 

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar says that his party has been vindicated in calling for a reopening of the Claims and Objections process, since it resulted in more than 7,000 persons being processed for registration.

Flights to Port Kaituma have again been suspended after residents cut a newly repaired fence and cows were back on the airstrip.

Noel Elliot, who was injured in last Saturday’s Caribbean Airlines Flight 523 crash-landing, has been flown to the United States to save his leg, which local doctors recommended be amputated.

Abdul Asif Akbar, the driver who allegedly struck and killed eight-year-old Joshua Daniels, was released on $2M bail after he was charged yesterday.

A jaguar that had been preying on poultry and pets in the Campbellville neighbourhood of the city was killed by residents on Thursday evening.

A family of four persons was left without a home when a fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed two houses at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara.

In the August 3rd edition of Stabroek News under the headline `EAB launches elections monitoring programme’ it was

At 62, Lilowtie Deephia knows the daily struggle to care for the nine children of her son, Budram ‘David’ Persaud who is in jail after he killed the children’s mother, Rubeena Sammy, five years ago.

The new Telecommunications bill proposes the establishment of a Telecom-munications Agency which will receive and review applications for licences, but GT&T, Digicel, E-Networks Inc, Quark Communications Inc. 

Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATN), GT&T’s parent company has recorded total revenues for the second quarter of US$193.8 M, 18 percent more than the US$164.7 million it recorded for the same period last year.

A bill plugged by the government as necessary to help secure convictions of fuel smugglers was passed unanimously by the National Assembly on Thursday evening.

GuySuCo’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Bhim on Wednesday said that the corporation is being hobbled by the failure of international suppliers to meet deadlines, which affects sugar production.

A “new component of safety” will be added to the country’s roads with the approval of legislation that will see the appointments of traffic wardens to police areas in Georgetown and dangerous stretches of country roads, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says.

The Environmental Community Health Organisation (ECHO) has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Private Sector and the Consumers’ Association of Guyana to support its campaign to ban free plastic bags given at shopping centres countrywide.

With boys accounting for higher drop out rates and lower attendance records in classrooms countrywide, teachers are being schooled on more effective ways to increase male academic engagement.

By Zoisa Fraser in Barbados Regional journalists attending a two-day workshop in Barbados were yesterday urged to form partnerships to find ways to urgently address the epidemic of killer Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) has provided training in its Real-Time Forecasting System (RTFS) to Caribbean nations to help them to prepare for tropical cyclones that are expected to affect the region as the hurricane season gets underway.

Improving the conditions for children admitted at the Georgetown Hospital is among the first projects for Grant-a-Dream, a newly-formed local humanitarian organisation with an ambitious goal—making Guyana a better place to live.