Guyana News

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.

Following several glowing tributes testifying to her kindness, generosity and wealth of knowledge, Phyllis Carter, the wife of Guyana’s late poet laureate Martin Carter, was yesterday laid to rest.

Old age pensioners will receive the 6% increase on the monthly allowance given by government from this month.

With efforts being made to allow persons with disabilities to gain more skills, members of the Disabled People’s Net-work (DPN) in Region Six are being given the opportunity to learn to use the computer.

-as re-planting projects get underway New regulations have been put into effect to prohibit the removal of mangroves, while around $125M is expected to be spent this year on restoration projects across the coastland.

By Cathy Richards After being launched as a facility designed to meet the comprehensive health care needs of residents of Linden and surrounding areas, the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) remains plagued by a shortage of trained staff and a lack of equipment that see many cases referred to the Georgetown Hospital.

The Guyana National Committee for Haiti Relief said it shipped 11 additional containers with supplies to Haiti, courtesy of John Fernandes Limited.

A father of two of Number 3 Village, West Berbice burst into tears in the Blairmont courtroom on Wednesday after Magistrate Nigel Hawke sentenced him to one year in jail for beating his wife.

-UG begins optometry training A blindness prevention programme was launched on Wednesday, coinciding with the start of an Optometry Training Programme at the University of Guyana (UG) that is expected to augment the objectives of project to develop capacity to eradicate avoidable blindness.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – A suspected suicide bomber on a  motorcycle killed 12 Shi’ites in Pakistan’s commercial capital  yesterday, followed hours later by a blast at a hospital where  the wounded were being treated which killed 13 people.

A young man accused of looting his workplace on two separate occasions was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $100,000.

A post-mortem examination (PME) conducted Wednesday on the skeletal remains found in the backdam at New Hope, East Bank Demerara on Monday was inconclusive and DNA samples were taken to aid in positive identification.

The Ministry of Education started its school feeding programme on Tuesday, as it continues to take steps it believes will boost school attendance.

Patrick Coats, a prisoner who tried to smuggle cannabis in his rectum into the Georgetown Prison, told Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton that he got the drugs from a prison officer.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The United States and the  Dominican Republic could help Haiti recover from last month’s earthquake by employing Haitian workers to fill seasonal labour  gaps, a senior U.N.