Guyana News

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – ABC television said  today it was canceling its long-running daytime soap  operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live”.

An Essequibo businessman is nursing two gunshot wounds after he resisted a gunman while shopping on Regent Street.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today said that in an effort to facilitate the heightened activities resulting from the April 30, 2011 deadline for the submission of Income, Property and Corporation Tax Returns, it has temporarily halted the sale of Motor Vehicle Licences (MVL) at two of its offices.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — The current government is going through with the Patamacca palm oil-project but with a different Chinese investor.

An employee of Bobby Noel’s General Store was crushed to death today when a sand pit caved in on him at the Wisroc One Mile

PPP presidential candidate Donald Ramotar this morning said that he generally didn’t have a problem with the current constitution and should he become president he would probably seek advice on changing the immunity from prosecution afforded to presidents.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The public sector is to receive a state-of-the-art procurement system, as the Government on Tuesday inked a deal with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

The Caribbean Media Corporation says that the George Charles Airport on the outskirts of Castries, St Lucia remained closed today after a small aircraft crashed while attempting to land.

(Barbados Nation) The Supreme Court of Barbados has officially appointed Deloitte Consulting Ltd, represented by Oliver Jordan and Patrick Toppin, as judicial manager of CLICO International Life Insurance Limited, pursuant to Section 57 of the Insurance Act.

Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday launched “Feminition,” a Women’s Exposition scheduled for next month to showcase products targeted for women or produced by women for women.

Balram Teekaram, 43, is currently a patient in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), after three bandits broke into his Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara home and beat and robbed him and his son early yesterday morning.

The requirement for Guyanese and Jamaicans to have visas before entering St Maarten came into  effect from last Monday and according to one report the new requirement has left travellers already booked to visit the country in the coming days in limbo because no notice was given.

The Guyana Consumers Association (GCA) yesterday urged consumers against paying higher bus fares, while calling on the government to ensure a police presence at parks to receive complaints about overcharging.

Opposition Leader Robert Corbin is in Washington, DC, attending the World Bank/IMF Spring meetings where he is expected to discuss the arrangements in place for monitoring the expenditure of money received as a result of the Guyana/Norway MoU on Avoided Deforestation.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday said it was “very alarmed” by the report of a man and his wife being granted asylum by the Immigration Refugee Board of Canada, which heard that the couple was threatened after the husband refused a request by a government official to hack into the computers of leading members of the opposition and a newspaper columnist.

A nurse accused of cuffing a conductress to her chest because she allegedly refused to pay an increased bus fare was yesterday sent on her own recognizance when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

A US-based company says it has entered into discussions with local hardware providers to establish wireless systems in Guyana that will complement the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme.

A multi-million dollar contract was given the green light by the administration for the construction of road structures and the installation of a pure water network at Herstelling, on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD).

Regardless of the estimated large volume of unutilized and underutilized species of fish available in the region, the Caribbean Community is  a net importer of fish and fish products, accounting for about 30 per cent of total regional demand, Executive Director of the Caribbean Re-gional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) Secretariat,  Hugh A.

The hijacked vehicle, in which three robbers escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash stolen from Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) employees, was found abandoned yesterday a short distance from where the robbery occurred.