Guyana News

The US Embassy yesterday announced an increase in the fees of machine-readable visas for most visitor visa classes from US$131 to US$140 so as to meet the increasing cost of processing non-immigrant visas.

Guyana ready for next stage implementation, Jagdeo says After almost one year of review and consultations, government has launched the third draft of Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) doubling its efforts to forge a new low-carbon effort over the coming decade.

– polls put Bouterse coalition ahead By Mark McGowan in Suriname A high voter turnout is expected today for Suriname’s general elections, which could see controversial former President Desi Bouterse regaining power.

Police are investigation a bizarre attack on Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon around 7 pm, which has since been strongly condemned by the Guyana Press Association.

Government yesterday confirmed that Professor David Dabydeen has been appointed Guyana’s ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.

-UNICEF tells welfare officers UNICEF representative Dr Suleiman Bramioh told a workshop for social workers that the task of a childcare officer is incomplete and his/her function ineffective if children are not offered protection from childbirth until adulthood.

Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony reiterated the ministry’s support of sport and cultural programmes when he on Saturday commissioned the Golden Grove/Nabaclis and Haslington Community Centre at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara.

The Management Committee of the Cheshire Home recently received from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives two washing machines and a newly-installed water filtration system, as a contribution towards enhancing general hygiene and living conditions for the children’s benefit.

Significant issues affecting internal auditors in Guyana was highlighted by Deodat Indar, vice president of the Institute of Internal Auditors-Guyana at a leadership conference he attended recently in Orlando, Florida.

-foreigners also seeking services Minister in the Ministry of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran met staff and at the National Ophthalmology Hospital on Wednesday last when he checked on its operations.

– US-based group misinformed Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir insists that neither he nor the government is engaged in any form of union busting or in the denial of workers’ rights as it relates to the continuing dispute be-tween the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and the Rusal subsidiary the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

The Region Seven RDC said it picked up 23 truant children in Bartica when it conducted an exercise on Wednesday.

Thirty-six-year-old Maria Campbell of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court accused of obtaining $1 million from a man for whom she had promised to acquire an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) when she knew that she wasn’t in a position to do so.

A team of police officers was dispatched to Cuyuni yesterday to investigate the suspected murder of a man.

KINGSTON (Reuters) – Soldiers and police stormed a Kingston slum yesterday and traded gunfire with supporters of an alleged Jamaican drug lord who faces extradition to the United States.

Emanuel Van Koko was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $60,000 and then deported to Nigeria since he had entered Guyana illegally and had falsely presented himself as someone else to the officers at the Central Immigration and Passport Office to obtain a Guyana passport.

GALLIANO, La (Reuters) – The US government piled pressure on BP Plc yesterday to clean up a “massive environmental mess” in the Gulf of Mexico, and a top official said fines would definitely be imposed on the energy giant for the spreading oil spill.

A man sustained pellet injuries during a confrontation with two armed bandits who had invaded his Canje home on Sunday night.

SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) – South Korea yesterday announced steps to tighten the vice on the North’s already stumbling economy in punishment for sinking one of its navy ships, and both sides intensified war-like rhetoric.

-gunman fled in car Businessman Terry Bacchus died shortly after he was shot outside his Water Street, Georgetown business place on Saturday night, just over a month after he received a threatening phone call.