Guyana News

Reconstruction of the 6.2 miles Mahaicony Branch Road has been completed at a cost of $175M.

A 38-year-old man of unsound mind died after he was hit by a mini-bus while reportedly trying to cross the road at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Saturday evening.

A roadblock mounted by the Linden Police at Bamia along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway yesterday resulted in the arrest of a 27-year-old man.

Life sometimes moves slowly in the Rupununi. And for one man, it is an agonising wait to collect his salary for the past year with officials only telling him to be patient.

Carl Newton, 36, of 20 Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt was placed on $15,000 bail last Thursday for unlawfully assaulting Alicia Blackman on January 10.

The Ministry of Agriculture has opened discussions with  livestock farmers in particular within a six-mile radius of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri with a view to determining alternative placement for them.

Thirty-one-year-old Dwayne Little called `Tattoo’ of 2707 Billimby Place, South Ruimveldt was on Friday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly using a gun to rob another man of a quantity of gold in the Puruni, Bartica area last year.

Thirty-year-old Dwight Heywood of South Ruimveldt was remanded to prison on Friday when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly slashing another man in his face with a broken glass bottle.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s voodoo priests  are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake — and  have taken their complaint to President Rene Preval.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud has said that Guyana is pursuing the strategic management of water and so it is crucial to decrease water wastage and increase its conservation.

The Men Empowerment Network (MEN) is observing National Men’s Week with a roster of activities set to start from today aimed at engaging and enabling men to fulfil their roles in the family as well as in society.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s cabinet met yesterday. On a bench and some plastic chairs in an open-air yard.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – World leaders pledged  aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its  wrecked capital earthquake survivors were still waiting today for the basics: food, water and medicine.

One-year old Nicholas Ramnauth was a child who brought lots of joy to his family, but his life ended tragically yesterday after he fell into a septic tank in the yard of his Lot 504 Kaneville, East Bank Demerara home.

It gets dark early in the South Rupununi and for many people the darkness signals bedtime.

Bandits shot and wounded a pastor last night after he saw them robbing three men across the street from his home.

By Cathy Richards A Linden family is seeking compensation for a nerve injury a five-year-old boy sustained while he was being treated by a nurse at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) for an unrelated ailment.

A mining deal involving Presidential Advisor on Empowerment, Odinga Lumumba and the GGMC continues to raise ethical questions including whether there was a conflict of interest from the outset, and the propriety of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s intervention.

– in functioning as insurance commissioner Six months after taking over the functions of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, the Bank of Guyana (BoG) is finding the dearth of expertise in the insurance field a challenge to its operations, its Governor Lawrence Williams says.

– alliance with either PPP or PNC would mean ‘death’ With upcoming local government elections likely to be a key test of the AFC’s strength, party Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan says it has widened its constituency to become an equal player in national politics.