Guyana News

Government has heeded the concerns of New Amsterdam residents for the preservation of the building which formerly housed the town’s public hospital, and will now meet the Berbice private sector to design its future.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has urged the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) to consider installation of pre-paid meters by way of lottery, in the pilot areas it had selected, even as it prepared to suspend installation to address concerns raised by residents.

Go-Invest CEO Geoffrey Da Silva was recently appointed Honorary Consul for Portugal in Guyana.

The CIOG said the roster of activities planned for Amerindian Heritage Month must include checks to ensure that indigenous peoples are able to participate fully in national life.

The PNCR said Amerindian Heritage Month presents the nation with an opportunity to celebrate the artistic, culinary and cultural contributions this group has given to the nation.

More than a year after the burnt remains of eight miners were discovered at Lindo Creek, the murder of gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass allegedly by three members of the Coast Guard has once again raised questions about whether soldiers could have participated in the mining camp massacre and the trail of unexplored clues left behind.

LONDON (Reuters) – G20 finance leaders yesterday  took aim at excessive bank pay and risk-taking at the root of  the financial crisis and insisted trillions of dollars of  emergency economic supports would be needed for some time.

(BBC) Seven men on the Caribbean island of Grenada have been freed after more than two decades in prison for the murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.

URUMQI, China (Reuters) – China sacked the top official of  the strife-torn city of Urumqi as well as the regional police  chief yesterday, as the town crept back to uneasy calm after  days of sometimes deadly protests that inflamed ethnic enmity.

MAKHMOUR, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish mayor  Barzan Said Kaka says he has no choice but to declare  independence from the largely Arab-run council of violent  Nineveh province — it’s infiltrated with insurgents and  killers, he says.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Troops captured the  suspected killer of 17 patients at a rehabilitation clinic in  northern Mexico, one of the deadliest attacks in President  Felipe Calderon’s three-year war against drug cartels, local  media said yesterday.

US embassy denies espionage report Talks are underway between the Home Affairs Ministry and Mormons on a settlement to allow church members to continue their work here and the US Embassy yesterday said that it issued no reports saying that the missionaries were expelled from Guyana because of possible espionage activities.

‘He was me only companion’ At midday yesterday, Salimoon Rahaman observed a minute of silence for her missing son, Ricky Jainarine, still clinging to the hope that he or his remains would be found.

Veronica Atherley, the newspaper vendor who was accidentally shot at Stabroek Square on Saturday, succumbed yesterday to her injuries while on a life support machine in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Saying the killing of Dweive Kant Ramdass by ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) exposes the criminality within the ranks of the security forces, PNCR leader Robert Corbin on Thursday said his party hopes the Chief of Staff would ensure that rogue elements in the army are reined in.

Fifty-year-old Lachman ‘Indar’ Balkarran left his Quakers Hall, Mahaicony home on August 23 to attend a wedding at De Hoop, Mahaica but suffered severe blows to his head which resulted in his death a few days later.

AFC concerned at administration’s activities in some communities With political party campaign finance laws largely ignored, Guyana like other Caribbean states is vulnerable to the corruption of the electoral process, according to AFC Vice-Chairperson Sheila Holder who told Stabroek News the party is concerned about the activities of the administration, particularly in indigenous and depressed communities.

-Guyanese mothers had to lodge children’s passports Guyana has written the Antigua and Barbuda government inquiring about its new immigration policy after it received information that the passports of three sets of Guyanese children travelling to that country with their parents were being held by the authorities until their exit.

The Guyana Embassy in Beijing, China launched its official website www.guyanaembassybeijing.cn

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Sir Shridath Ramphal, the mediator appointed by CARICOM Chairman Bharrat Jagdeo, explained that 24 hours before the breakdown of the talks on Tuesday between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players’ Association, he believed that “agreement was at hand; and that he had actually invoked assistance of various kinds to make implementation of the Agreement feasible”.