Guyana News

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is moving to put measures in place to protect its employees in light of last week’s alleged attack on an inspection team by businessman Omprakash Shivraj and his workers, Chairman of the Scheme, Dr.

The Ministry of Agriculture has appointed a team to enquire into the issues involved in the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Cooperative Society and to make recommendations for their solution.

Office of the President (OP) Press and Publicity Officer Kwame Mc Coy called in a security officer during yesterday’s weekly post-cabinet press briefing, after an intense verbal exchange between a reporter and members of the head table.

Kuntia Dey Singh, who the prosecution said had the right-of-way when she allegedly hit a nurse with her vehicle, resulting in his death, was yesterday admitted to self bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Technicians from the Hinter-land Electrification Unit will soon be dispatched to several Amerindian communities to start training Toshaos to install and maintain solar home systems currently being distributed there.

Three Amerindian communities received their land titles at the opening of the National Toshaos Conference on Monday.

Police are investigating Tuesday’s night hit-and-run accident at Crane, West Coast Demerara that left a mother of three dead and a teen girl hospitalised.

A Jamaican national died last Thursday after he reportedly fell out of the boat he was travelling in along the Berbice River, hitting his head in the process.

Residents of Oronoque, Albert and Light streets in Queenstown are weary with the piles of mud outside their homes as a result of sewage line replacement being undertaken by a contractor on behalf of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) and which is expected to last a month.

Nealon Fernandes is the winner of the Nintendo Wii Showdown, hosted by Courts Guyana Inc last Friday.

A fire early yesterday morning completely gutted Willo’s Grocery which was located at the back of the old Mackenzie Market at Linden.

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) yesterday said that the crew of a boat which capsized in the Essequibo River on Sunday with 17 passengers aboard had been suspended while an investigation of the incident is done.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – According to MC-Parliamentarian Andre Misiekaba, there is ample reason to be anxious that much illegal and drug money is circulating in Suriname without the authorities being able to do anything about it.

(Trinidad Express) This country will not be shut down by the labour movement and Government will survive whatever action it takes, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government yesterday banned the scrap metal trade in a desperate move to save the country’s infrastructure by putting a new breed of brazen scavengers out of business.

(Jamaica Observer) More than four months after Jamaican Shanique Myrie was finger-raped, verbally abused, locked up and kicked out of Barbados, the Barbadian Government is yet to respond to correspondence from her lawyers.

International Cricket Council-accredited umpire Clyde Duncan died early this morning in Trinidad following a battle with cancer.

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) today said that the crew of a boat which capsized in the Essequibo River on Sunday with 17 passengers aboard had been suspended while an investigation of the incident is done.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Yesterday afternoon, President Desi Bouterse told the press that the gold pontoon that has been causing quite a stir among communities around the reservoir in Brokopondo is neither his son Dino Bouterse’s nor chief of-security Melvin Linscheer’s.

A fire early this morning completely gutted Willo’s Grocery which was located at the back of the old Mackenzie Market at Linden.