Guyana News

Stanleytown poultry farmer Leon Amsterdam credits his success in the poultry sector to his determination to provide for his family, despite his blindness, and posits that government needs to inquire from persons in the industry, its needs before deciding on interventions.

The Ministry of Agriculture is putting more measures in place to regulate the aquaculture and fisheries industry in order to easily facilitate the export of farm-bred fish and fish products.

Caricom says the 32nd regular meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government set for St Kitts and Nevis tomorrow will focus on health, as the Community marks 10 years of achievements in that sector.

The Ministry of Health last week hosted a three-day photographic exhibition at the National Library to heighten awareness of and celebrate the 24th anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI).

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said private security firms provide a key service in national security, when he met with the newly elected members of the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) on Tuesday.

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – India fast bowler Ishant  Sharma captured two wickets in four balls today to  briefly put the squeeze on West Indies during a rain-shortened  second day of the second test in Barbados.

Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon has confirmed that Brazil is taking longer than usual to respond to the proposed posting of Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall as Ambassador to Brasilia saying today the delay is the longest in recent years.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1220h.

At about 1955h yesterday, police said taxi-driver Carlton Jerrick, 50 years of North East La Penitence, Georgetown, was attacked and robbed of his motor car at Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown, by two men whom he had picked up as passengers.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer’s dreams of a  seventh Wimbledon title were shattered by an extraordinary  comeback from Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who won an epic  quarter-final 3-6 6-7 6-4 6-4 6-4 today.

Two of Suriname’s most wanted criminals, including a Guyana-born man, were last night seriously injured during an operation by the neighbouring country’s Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) and another man was mortally injured.

The Guyana Power and Light company is aiming for 24-hour power supply to the Essequibo River islands of Leguan and Wakenaam.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Embassy in Kingston has finally responded to Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s allegation that its officials were, among other things, “belligerent and aggressive” in diplomatic talks relating to the extradition request for accused drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Senator Dorothy Lightbourne has been dumped from her post as justice minister and attorney general, making her the biggest casualty of the long-anticipated reshuffle of the Bruce Golding Cabinet.

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Indian batsman Suresh Raina  has been fined 25 percent of his match fee for showing dissent  at an umpire’s decision during the first day of the second test  against West Indies, the International Cricket Council (ICC)  said today.

(De Ware Tijd) Political key figures are allegedly trying to appropriate considerable pieces of land.

Government yesterday staunchly defended the evaluation process for the first tender for the supply of computers for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project and said that Giftland OfficeMax was disqualified because it submitted a “counterfeit” Lenovo computer sample.

A two-year-old boy died today when he grabbed onto a live wire, part of the illegal wiring taking electricity into his home.

The Intraserv bus service between Lethem and the coastland has ended and might only be restarted if the trail is upgraded.

Photographer Delano Williams, who is accused of causing the death of Sewcharran Persaud Ugraj while allegedly driving under the influence, was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $350,000 by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.