Guyana News

-Singh Although the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) projects increased expenditure over the next three years, according to Finance Minister Dr.

GuySuCo will pay sugar workers an Annual Production Incentive (API) of 6 days pay for last year.

Two British women were arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday with cocaine in the wigs they were wearing as they were preparing to board the same flight.

– moves to curb cash transactions Scotiabank yesterday un-veiled its Small Business Banking (SBB), a suite of products, which promises to help proprietors grow their businesses.

The Ministry of Housing and Water is embarking on an initiative to promote home ownership by professionals and low-income persons, revealing that it expects to allocate about 5,500 house lots this year.

A clothes vendor was not required to plead to the indictable charge of robbery under arms when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday.

The 46 children, who were displaced because of Saturday’s fire at the Care Centre for Children in Hadfield Street, are said to be slowly recuperating from the traumatic experience.

HALLE, Belgium (Reuters) – Two commuter trains crashed head-on near Brussels during the morning rush hour yesterday, killing at least 18 people.

A Stanleytown, New Amsterdam man was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics.

RIYADH (Reuters) – The United States believes Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are driving the country towards military dictatorship and should be targeted in any new UN sanctions, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday.

ABUJA (Reuters) – Acting President Goodluck Jonathan ap-pealed to Nigerians yesterday to stop putting adverts in newspapers to congratulate him on his new role.

Muslims will start celebrating the Islamic month of Rabi-ul-Awwal today by preparing for Youmun Nabi on February 27.

School of the Nations’ Berbice campus has raised over $62,000 for relief efforts for Haiti.

LONDON (Reuters) – The use of full-body scanners at British airports may breach human rights laws, the country’s equality commission said today, potentially undermining the latest weapon against terrorism.

– after six-month pilot later this year Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh announced the introduction of a digital speech recording system in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal later this year as part of a pilot project set to run for six months.

MARJAH, Afghanistan – US Marines leading one of NATO’s biggest offensives against the Taliban in the eight-year war are facing fierce resistance in some areas, including heavy gunfire, snipers and booby traps, US officials said yesterday.

A 44-year-old Guyanese who worked as a security guard in Manhattan was stabbed to death early Sunday morning behind a Brooklyn gas station as he walked home from a party.

-huge agri losses projected With El Nino now forecast to last until mid-April and the next rainy season, months away, the agricultural sector is facing a potential $3 billion in losses.

By Cathy Richards and Alva Solomon A mid-afternoon accident on the Linden/Soesdyke High-way yesterday left one person dead and several nursing injuries following a head-on collision between a car and a pick-up.

Hours after he was stabbed in the abdomen during a confrontation with three men Gregory `Micey’ Stuart died at the Georgetown Public Hospital.