Guyana News

A week has passed and Rozena Razack, who was struck down on Lamaha Street, has not yet regained consciousness.

At a lecture on “Democracy and the Role of Free, Fair and Transparent Elections in the Nation Building Process,” at Corriverton on Wednesday, a participant raised the issue of only one radio station operating in Guyana.

A recently developed Science and Technology Master Plan proposes merging science with technology, with the aim of improving the country’s research and development capacity, the Education Ministry has said.

A man and a woman who allegedly robbed a man of his gold chain were refused bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The Second Forum on Donor Co-ordination and Aid Effectiveness was asked by the acting Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite to start looking for ways “to leverage traditional assistance” that will be of advantage to the regional private sector.

Relatives of Basmattie Anantram, 46, are beginning to lose hope as six weeks have passed since she went missing.

The newest regional airline REDjet finally touched down at Piarco International Airport yesterday afternoon, following weeks of negotiations with Trinidad’s authorities, who had initially denied it permission to land.

The newest regional airline, low fare REDjet, finally touched down at Piarco International Airport this afternoon following weeks of back and forth talks between the airline and the Trinidad authorities who had initially denied the airline permission to land in the twin island.

At about 02:00h today, police ranks responded to a report of burglary in a house at Narine Street, Better Hope North, East Coast Demerara.

The PNCR this afternoon walked out of the National Assembly as the Broadcast Bill was about to be debated with the party’s leader, Robert Corbin, saying that the process “contravened every level of consultation.”

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England  paceman Chris Tremlett is a fitness doubt for the second test  which starts on Friday while opponents India will be without  their number one swing bowler Zaheer Khan.

(Trinidad Guardian) A ministerial team, on its way to bring aid to Moruga residents, had to abort the trip yesterday as hundreds of angry villagers intensified their protest over last weekend’s incident in which three people were shot dead by police officers.

A farmer  was yesterday shot and killed and his brother seriously wounded by persons who relatives said were “envious” of the fact that they were in possession of a rice field at Hogstye, Corentyne, Berbice.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Accusing the People’s National Party (PNP) of carrying out a campaign to derail Chinese investments amounting to more than US$1 billion in Jamaica, the Bruce Golding-led administration says thousands of jobs are now under threat as a result of “spurious aspersions” by the Opposition.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Education permanent secretary Robert Soentik has until tomorrow to finish ongoing matters.

(Barbados Nation) Thirty-five-year-old Shawn Anderson Sealy of Fairfield Black Rock, St Michael was shot dead by police in the area of Waterhall Land Bank Hall yesterday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) International dancehall artiste Mavado is scheduled to appear in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate Court on August 8 to answer criminal charges laid against him, following an incident in which two men were assaulted.

Presidential guards and others who acted as enforcers are to be charged following a bewildering attack on an East Bank sand business on Tuesday, sources say.

After criticism that it has contributed to deaths by neglecting road safety, the Home Ministry has said that the police force has managed to reduce the road death rate, which is lower than the average in both low-income and middle-income countries.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of security guard Ramsarran Persaud, of Good Hope, Mahaica, whose decomposing body was found in the East Demerara Conservancy, at Cane Grove, Easy Coast Demerara.