Guyana News

AFC leader Raphael Trotman yesterday accused the ruling PPP and the main opposition PNCR of engaging in secret shared governance talks-a charge that both parties strongly denied.

The partial remains of a skeleton were yesterday morning discovered on cane land aback of the Bel-Lu Clay Brick Factory, Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara.

Local beverage company Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is sending bottled water worth $8M to earthquake-devastated Haiti.

A man and a teen appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with last week’s killing of 62-year-old security guard, Dhanpaul at Chesney, Corentyne and were remanded to prison.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh will be presenting the 2010 National Budget to the National Assembly on Monday, February 8.

A businessman was among four people recently jailed in the United Kingdom for importing cocaine from Guyana hidden in tins of Chinese cooking sauce.

The AFC is “very, very concerned” about the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) “lack of preparedness” for upcoming local government polls, saying that the citizenry remains in the dark about its rights and responsibilities under the new electoral system.

A day after Barticians shut down the community and staged a massive protest, life in the community returned to normalcy yesterday as the residents await word from President Bharrat Jagdeo regarding the implementation of six months notice before mining among other controversial proposals.

-study cites poor salaries, conditions Money is a major pull factor for nurses to migrate but a poor working environment also plays a significant role in the country’s nurses leaving, a recent study on nursing migration in Guyana found and a plan is to be devised to staunch this flow.

A man who was allegedly found with a little over six kilos of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri  was charged on Monday.

The Vreed-en-Hoop office of money-transfer agency, MoneyGram was broken into sometime over the weekend and $3.3M was taken away, the police say.

The three-year-old child who was hospitalized on Saturday at the Fort Wellington Hospital after a severe beating is expected to be placed in protective custody and charges are likely to be laid against his relatives.

A special constable attached to the Guyana Power & Light (GPL) office at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice suffered injuries above his left eye and forehead after a glass bottle was thrown at him around 4:15 pm yesterday.

-brother held A 27-year-old woman who was trying to save her sister from being attacked ended up being badly chopped on her head and left hand around 1:30 pm yesterday at Number 29 Village.

A 43-year-old man is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital after he stepped into the path of Fire Service vehicle on Monday.

A burglar was given a severe beating by residents of Campbellville Housing Scheme early yesterday morning shortly after he had broken into at least five homes, stealing cash and cellular phones.

The parents of the Australian who was shot during last month’s attack at Safraz Bar have expressed frustration at their failed attempts to return him to his homeland for urgent medical attention According to yesterday’s edition of the Australian Herald, Jason Montgomery remains in a critical condition here.

A hire car driver was placed on $65,000 bail on a charge of fraudulent conversion on Monday.

CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington told a regional Youth Forum in Suriname last week that free movement within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is being gravely hampered by the Immigration Restriction Acts within member states.

-uncleared conference advances also a worry Overpayments by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for fuel from GuyOil in 2006 have been queried by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.