Guyana News

In yesterday’s edition on page 1 in the headline ‘Beulah Williams, Rawle Edinboro sacked from city posts’ Stabroek News mistakenly named Rawle Edinboro as the person sacked and also carried his photograph.

Government, in collaboration with the IDB, has started phase two of the Transport Infrastructure Rehabilitation Programme, which will see the rehabilitation and building of 25 bridges and culverts from Timehri to Rosignol.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has expressed concern at a number of issues affecting the proper management of police stations, including the unsatisfactory response to reports of domestic violence and allegations of corruption, at a Conference for Inspectors and Sergeants, held two weeks ago.

The Ministry of Housing says it will be enforcing a strict zero tolerance policy on squatting in Region Three, as it seeks to ensure to regularise those that have already been established.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is re-launching its Community Action Component (CAC) in order to engage youth in community-building projects to deter them from turning to crime.

Police on Thursday recovered a boat and engine with another engine on board, all suspected to have been stolen between Bartica and Parika.

A 14-year-old boy was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $25,000 when he appeared at the Fort Wellington Court before Magistrate Nigel Hawke on a charge of unlawful wounding.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon says that administration is currently constructing a building in the compound of Castellani House that is “intended to house the entity that will be responsible for the intelligence work of the administration of the Guyanese government.”

The Ministry of Housing and Water is moving towards expanding its Geographic Information System (GIS) to integrate data for more effective decision-making in the housing sector.

The Aditya Foundation of Bath Settlement has stepped in to give a 24-year-old resident of Tucber Park, New Amsterdam a chance to live by contributing $200,000 towards an open heart surgery for him.

Relatives of 12-year-old Akeem Henry are desperately looking for him since he disappeared from his Tucville home on Thursday morning.

Elroy Fernandes of Canal No.2, West Bank Demerara was placed on $85,000 bail yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after allegedly converting to his own use a quantity of food that he was asked to sell.

-Carrington CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has disclosed that the Community will be engaged for the long-term in Haiti’s recovery and reconstruction, a news release from the secretariat said.

A Number 28 Village, West Berbice resident was denied his pre-trial freedom when he appeared at the Fort Wellington Court charged with chopping his sister.

Shawn Griffith, 32, of Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly beating and chopping his girlfriend.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will have to find a way of getting annual contribution statements sent directly to employees, Board Chairman Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

Eighty-one nations have signed up to the “Copenhagen Accord” for fighting climate change but Guyana is not among them.

The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department, along with the police and the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) and the revenue authority, will be strengthening the control mechanisms for importation, sale and use of precursor substances and chemicals.

Based on its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) earnings, Guyana has emerged as the “most generous” contributor to earthquake-relief efforts for Haiti, closely followed by the African nation of Ghana.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) presented the first recipient of the Chief-of-Staff Award for Academic Excellence to Zonel Hartley.