Guyana News

Authorities are being urged to sensitise miners on safer mining practices, following the fatal cave-in of a mining pit at Mahdia, Region 8 on Tuesday.

Two teenaged prisoners on remand for trafficking in narcotics and simple larceny escaped from the Den Amstel police station lock-ups on Tuesday.

Two men who were found to be driving their vehicles while being over the legal limit of alcohol consumption yesterday appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennon in the Christianburg Magistrates’ Court and were each fined $50,000 with an alternative of six weeks imprisonment after they pleaded guilty.

A former student of Anna Regina Secondary School yesterday became the fifteenth recipient of the Anne Blue Scholarship Award which honours academic as well as extra-curriculum activities.

Eleven contestants made it through to the quarterfinals in the Cellink KidStage workshop According to a news press release, Amanda David, Alliah Corlette, Aaliyah Rosheuvd, Kyle Archer, Melissa Benjamin and Tiffany McAlmont were selected and they are expected to perform today at the Theatre Guild.

-cottage industries encouraged Residents of Linden and surrounding communities are being encouraged to invest in cottage industries with the availability of a new $100M loan scheme investment by the Caricom General Insur-ance Company Inc (CGIC).

Preliminary discussions are ongoing between the government and a consortium of US and Brazilian investors to set up an ethanol plant here, according to Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud.

Despite the current El Niño conditions, farmers in Region Six are enjoying adequate water for their crops as the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) is “working around the clock” on the drainage and irrigation (D&I) systems.

The  Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has reported that a major mechanical failure at the No.

The Mashramani Secretariat has postponed its awards ceremony for the winners in the recent Mashramani contests until Friday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A Western proposal for fresh UN sanctions on Iran includes a call for restricting new Iranian banks abroad and urges “vigilance” against the Islamic Republic’s central bank, diplomats said yesterday.

CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – A series of strong aftershocks rattled south-central Chile yesterday, panicking residents nearly a week after one of the most powerful earthquakes on record rocked the area and killed hundreds of people.

A Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) cashier was placed on $150,000 bail on Thursday, after pleading not guilty to charges of stealing over $600,000 from the revenue agency.

Levi Kulsum, a naturalised US citizen, was sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday, when he pleaded guilty to a trafficking in narcotics charge, after being arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri with cocaine in his suitcase.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – An aspiring Colombian presidential candidate had a sandal tossed at him yesterday in an incident reminiscent of a protest against former US President George W.

A man was remanded to prison on Wednesday on a charge of unlawfully setting fire to a building at Farm, East Bank Demerara.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, announced plans yesterday to deploy an army of mothers worldwide as part of an Internet-based network to connect women in need with people ready to help.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Don’t mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country’s national anthem gender-neutral.

The bids to build the access roads and other infrastructure to facilitate the development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project have been evaluated and an announcement on the award is expected to be made shortly.

Caricom finance ministers at the Fourteenth Meeting of Council of Finance and Planning (COFAP) again pledged to support rebuilding efforts in Haiti even as Secretary-General Edwin Carrington urged the region to support Chile in the wake of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on February 27.