Guyana News

Elements of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) such as improved hinterland infrastructure, social services to communities and improved telecommunication will assist tourism development, Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Manniram Prashad says.

A 42-year-old man who is nursing pellet wounds to the head at the Georgetown Public Hospital claims he was going to pick sugarcane when he was shot, while the police said he was found with a box of stolen tiles on a businessman’s premises.

A 54-year-old man drowned yesterday while swimming with friends in the West Demerara conservancy.

A 17-year-old employee of Nirva Supermarket located on Sheriff Street was hit by a speeding car last night around 10.30pm as she was crossing the road.

– grillwork could be fire trap For years, home-owners have been battling to find the best solution to protect themselves and their property from criminals, whether at night or during the day.

The notorious era of convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan and his ‘Phantom Squad’ did “terrible damage” to the image of the Guyana Police Force as many former and serving policemen were part of the gang, according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Slowe who said, though, that he had no intimate knowledge of the activities of the gang members.

The People’s Progressive Party has accused Stabroek News of publishing the results of what it calls a “bogus poll,” which it says is a move to “confuse and mislead” the people of this country.

The National Assembly passed the Credit Reporting Bill 2009 on Thursday, allowing for the establishment of a Credit Bureau that would provide a better opportunity for citizens to gain access to credit lenders.

Officials of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) and the technical team which granted Synergy Holdings the award for the construction of access roads for the Amaila Falls hydropower plant are tight-lipped concerning the granting of the controversial contract.

The three policemen accused of beating an automotive salesman last week Friday night, claimed that he had in fact assaulted them, when they appeared for a confrontation with the injured man on Friday.

The Ministry of Education is to introduce a Grade Four literacy certificate from next year in a move to push the school system to perform at a higher level, while putting pressure on the teachers, parents and school managers, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy said yesterday that one individual, who has been disciplined, was responsible for the lapse in procedure which resulted in a batch of H1N1 vaccines that was shipped here being replaced.

There were 3,200 referrals to the Emergency Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital and 603 referrals to the Maternity Department from regional hospitals last year, Minster of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy said.

The government is aiming for the Consumer Protection and Hire Purchase Legislation Bill to be submitted to Parliament “by mid-year”, according to Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad.

(Jamaica Observer) The gruesome discovery by the security forces of shallow graves — one with the body of a person who was buried standing — and a suspected torture chamber was on Frirday shared with journalists covering the ongoing search of Tivoli Gardens more than a week after gunmen engaged the authorities in three days of clashes that resulted in the deaths of 73 persons, among them a soldier.

Students of Guyana School of Agriculture on the Essequibo Coast in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture conducted an experimental planting of mangrove trees yesterday on the beach at La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s navy boarded a ship carrying aid to Gaza without incident yesterday, five days after killing nine people on a Turkish aid ship to enforce what Washington calls an unsustainable blockade.

Police have no leads into the kidnapping of an Essequibo boat builder who was grabbed by armed men from his mother-in-law’s home last Thursday, but investigations continue.

VENICE, La/PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla (Reuters) – The latest effort to siphon oil and gas gushing from a ruptured deep-sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is working well so far, US officials said yesterday, as President Barack Obama defended his handling of the environmental crisis.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has pledged to assist with accommodation and to provide a yearly subvention for transportation in order to help the Disabled People’s Network (DPN) meet their mandate.