Guyana News

A replica of a giant sloth, re-created from old fossils, is now on display at the National Museum.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) signed a Collective Labour Agreement that will see key employees benefiting from salary increases over the next two years.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) plans to mount an aggressive public education programme to engage and educate citizens on public health issues.

-Luncheon The government will be moving to reconvene talks with the PNCR shortly so that a Chairman for the Integrity Commission could be named, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon says.

The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) “will be engaging in several actions of civil disobedience” at the Turkeyen Campus on Wednesday, to bring attention and action to the challenges facing students.

Bandits relieved a man of gold jewellery during an armed robbery early yesterday afternoon at McDoom, East Bank Demerara.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack  Obama stressed to Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday the  need to act urgently against Iran’s nuclear programme, and Hu  agreed that Beijing would help craft a UN resolution, a US  official said.

Police Complaints Authority (PCA) Chairman, former Chancellor of the Judiciary Cecil Kennard will be receiving complaints in Linden on Wednesday and Thursday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai anti-government  protesters marched in Bangkok yesterday, carrying empty coffins  in memory of comrades killed at the weekend, as the country’s  worst political violence in 18 years sent the stock market down  5 percent.

Tracy Douglas was elected the new president of the Guyana Arts and Craft Producers Association when the body held its third elections on March 30.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland moved yesterday to fill  key state posts after a weekend plane crash in western Russia  killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other top  officials, plunging the country into mourning.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukraine will get rid of  its stockpile of highly enriched uranium by 2012, the White  House said  yesterday in the first tangible result from a  47-nation summit aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism.

History was created yesterday when for the first time paediatric open heart surgeries were performed in Guyana at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) by a visiting team of experts from New York through a joint public/private sector venture.

A 37-year-old resident of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, was brutally chopped to death around 10.45 am yesterday; his assailant has been taken into custody and a cutlass suspected to be the murder weapon, retrieved.

-required by Anti-Money Laundering Act Republic Bank (Guyana) yesterday in a notice to its customers said it would be forced to close their accounts if they do not produce proof of their addresses – a new requirement under the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 – by early next month.

Justice, answers and financial assistance are what the relatives of the ill-fated Island Princess crew are seeking almost six months after the attack.

President Bharrat Jagdeo in an address at the launch of a campaign against child abuse stated that finding a solution to this problem should not be influenced by foreign circumstances but should be tailored to the Guyanese reality.

The Visually-Impaired Cultural Association (VICAG) was launched on Friday at the National Library.

A man charged with attempting to sell a house lot that he did not own to two different men was remanded to prison on Friday.

Still no word on cause of illness   The West Canje, Berbice mother of the three children who were admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital after they took ill suddenly on Wednesday, said doctors were still not finding the cause of their sickness.