Guyana News

A few hundred residents of the mining town of Mahdia in Region 8 rallied yesterday against the contentious proposal for six months notice before mining can commence saying that it would “destroy” the community.

There will be no more alcohol-laced shows at the Albion Sports Complex as the management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) wants to preserve the ground for cricket and other sports.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Monday disclosed that export earnings for the country during last year contracted by 4.2 percent to US$768.2 million due to external price factors but gold brought in more than double what the traditional champion, sugar earned.

Caricom Heads of Govern-ment pledged to “explicitly recognise and clearly articulate the role of youth in Caribbean development” on the occasion of a Special Regional Summit on Youth Development held in Suriname recently.

-find two families in desperate circumstances In an effort to ensure that the impoverished are properly taken care of, President of the East Canje Lions Club, Devin Sookraj drove around the area on Saturday to seek them out.

Health officials and other emergency teams are still providing help for devastated Haitians and since the horrific earthquake hit Port-au-Prince on January 12, more than 300 persons from eleven CARICOM (Caribbean Community) countries and associate members have so far been involved in the response.

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh has projected a 4% growth in gold declaration this year to 311,816 ounces, significantly less than the industry’s target of 500,000 ounces.

-Caribbean risk and monitoring entities pitching in The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Institute for Hydrology and Meteorology (CIMH) is focusing on helping Haiti provide sound areas to resettle some survivors of the January 12 earthquake before the hurricane season begins.

Digicel customers now have the opportunity to get free weekend calls and credit following the company’s launch of  its D’ Free Zone Combo which it dubbed as an “exciting new promotion”.

The Ministry of Culture says Trinidad and Tobago music arranger Rishi Gayadeen recently participated in a workshop with local musicians to help boost their sound, in time for the Mash Chutney contest.

A former Guyanese footballer, who absconded in 1987 when the then national team had visited the United States, will more than likely be home for good more than twenty years later, after years of a legal battle to have his status legalized came to an end earlier this month.

The Ministry of Labour inspected operations at two cooperative societies in Region Six over the weekend as it pushes ahead with plans to achieve cooperative reform.

Twenty-year-old Ronald Evans of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s for allegedly indecently assaulting a 3-year-old and an 8-year-old.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday sentenced a man to four years imprisonment after ruling that she had found him guilty of selling a quantity of cocaine to a police constable.

A 16-year-old student of an East Coast Demerara Secondary School was up to press time in police custody after a firearm was found in his bag but the teen is saying that he found the weapon.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds applauded the Guyana Relief Council (GRC) for its work when he declared open its 16th anniversary photo exhibition on Monday at the National Library.

A man who beat his ex-wife with a walking stick and was fined $10,000, protested to the court last week that he was in fact a victim of domestic abuse.

One of two gunmen who robbed a businessman at Agricola Public Road of over $200,000 in valuables was arrested and will be charged shortly.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that one man be remanded to prison while she granted another bail in the sum of $20,000 when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing gold jewellery from women in separate incidents.

WASHINGTON/TEHRAN, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack  Obama said yesterday the international community was moving  “fairly quickly” toward imposing broader sanctions on Iran, as  the Islamic Republic defiantly expanded its nuclear programme.