Guyana News

-Luncheon Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon admitted that there were some “legitimate names” included on the parliamentary opposition’s dossier of human rights abuses but said that these could be categorised as “work in progress” since the police would still be investigating the cases and would not have officially closed their investigations.

-Interim Board The deplorable state of field and factory assets within the sugar industry has been blamed by the Interim Board as a factor responsible for the current troubles plaguing GuySuCo.

Minister of Health of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday said he had invited the Guyana Pharmacy Council and Pharmacy Association to a meeting on Thursday to discuss the sale of the single-dose malaria drug in pharmacies even as he indicated that there would have to be a restriction on the import of the drug because of the threat it posed in the malaria fight.

Chairman of GECOM, Dr Steve Surujbally said the commission must provide its services with optimal efficiency as well as courtesy, respect and understanding.

-Sukhai The trail from Lethem to Aishalton as well as roads in the South Pakaraimas will be improved to make access in the sprawling Rupununi region easier, Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai says.

(Barbados Nation) Air traffic controllers at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) all reported sick on Saturday.

A dispute over a plot of farming land at West Coast Berbice has caused farmer, Rawlston Cambridge, to have recourse to the High Court and Justice Diana Insanally is now calling on the Chairman of the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary (MMA) board to defend his decision to repossess the land from the farmer.

An exhibition featuring the paintings of UK-based Guyanese, Dennis de Caires opened at the National Gallery of Art on Wednesday with the artist hailing the high standard of local artwork and donating two of his paintings to the National Collection in memory of the late editor-in-chief of Stabroek News.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday called on the Guyana Police Force to undertake more public education about what road users should do when they hear the sirens of an ambulance, the police or the fire service.

A Guyana family of four recently lost their bid to remain in Canada through the refugee route when a federal court found that while they may be at a risk of becoming victims of crime in Guyana they would not find themselves in an unusual situation.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran announced plans yesterday to  build 10 new uranium enrichment plants in a major expansion of  its atomic programme, just two days after the UN nuclear  watchdog rebuked it for carrying out such work in secret.

PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Commonwealth states  representing a third of the world’s people said yesterday  momentum was growing towards a global climate deal, but nagging  doubts remained over funding levels and degrees of commitment.

PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – The Commonwealth has  admitted French-speaking Rwanda as its 54th member in the  latest expansion of the geographically diverse group of mostly  former British colonies, its leaders said yesterday.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Switzerland voted to ban the  construction of new minarets yesterday, a surprise result  certain to embarrass the neutral government and which the  justice minister said could affect Swiss exports and tourism.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cubans are bracing for hard  times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts  government spending to get Cuba out of crisis — and they are  growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform.

LONDON (Reuters) – Simon Mann, a British mercenary  jailed for plotting against the government of Equatorial Guinea,  has said South Africa tacitly supported a failed 2004 coup in  the oil-rich African nation.

LONDON (Reuters) – The debut album of Scottish  singer Susan Boyle, who shot to fame after her audition for TV  show ‘Britain’s Got Talent,’ has become the fastest selling  album in Britain this year.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says government will soon inform the US officially that the administration cannot honour its request for the extradition of Barry Dataram because a year-old Full Court decision still stands.

“Life nice,” says Nicola McDonald, the Victoria amputee who was the victim of a brutal attack by her partner a little over two weeks ago, “It still nice.”

The Guyana and Suriname ferry service is to resume today following the completion of an emergency bypass which had to be created after the Jackson Creek bridge collapsed on Thursday.