Guyana News

(WICB) Bridgetown, Barbados – Dr. Rudi Webster has accepted an invitation to work with the West Indies players as they prepare for the Second Digicel Test match against India at Kensington Oval.

West Berbice resident Ryan Gajadhar died last night after he was run over by a motor vehicle.

Wanted man Vijay Seenarine, who escaped from the New Amsterdam Prison just over two weeks ago, was arrested today after police found him walking along a street in Corentyne, Berbice.

A 61-year-old transport officer attached to  Courtney Benn Contracting Services was found dead in his car in a trench early this morning.

Guyanese businessman Desmond ‘DA’ Alphonso did not leave the British Virgin Islands as was expected this morning in line with a deportation order and reports say that he is refusing to leave.

(Trinidad Guardian) Political scientist Dr Selwyn Ryan says this is not “a banana Republic” and that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar should “bite the bullet” and “try to persuade” the embattled Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner to “respond positively to a red card.

(Trinidad Express) At least two Government ministers are expected to be removed from the Cabinet in the first reshuffle during the Kamla Persad-Bissessar administration, sources confirmed yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) As Buju Banton says goodbye to his freedom for what could be at least six years behind US prison walls for a drug conviction, the Rastafarian reggae artiste says he intends to spend his time seeking higher learning.

The Unity, Mahaica teen, who was feared kidnapped after relatives received ransom demands via text messages, was found in a Festival City house early yesterday morning and is now in police custody after admitting she staged her disappearance.

While Guyana assumed the presidency of the South American grouping UNASUR last November at a summit in Georgetown, a senior Ecuadorian official harboured doubts that this country could carry out the task, according to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.

Trade unionist Gillian Burton sits on the Women and General Equality Commission (WGEC) to “make right the wrongs” being perpetrated against women in the society, and this past year she has seen enough to say that too little is being done for women here.

Police officials said they will continue to investigate the alleged abduction of the two Yarowkabra teens and are hunting for the four masked men, who reportedly snatched the girls last Tuesday, kept them at an unknown location and freed them on Friday night.

Jewellers have signalled their intention to comply with the regulations of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) to have the standard quality mark on their products, according to Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad.

The National Volunteering Disability Programme is recruiting volunteers for its year-long pilot project when it launches the programme at the Umana Yana on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Education says it has taken steps to ensure that there is no recurrence of the incident at Golden Grove Primary regarding the 2011 National Grade Four Assessment and noted that the exams were conducted with few hiccups at other schools.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has joined the Board of Directors of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) which aims to pioneer green growth by integrating job creation with environmental sustainability in a manner similar to Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

The gold rush over the past years has not been a glittering one for the environment, with many new miners unaware of proper mining practices and others continuing to operate as they had done in the past.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has been monitoring recent aircraft incidents—although the agency remains without the services of a flight operations inspector, which is a key post within the aviation sector.

Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy has warned that self-diagnosing malaria is a dangerous practice yet people continue to do it and according to him, the sale of malaria medicines in the private sector has become a thriving business in the hinterland areas and in Regions 2, 4 and 10.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says Guyana remains committed to implementing measures for sustainable development, at the United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) Rio+20 Sub Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Caribbean held at the Guyana International Conference Centre recently.