Guyana News

-Wallisa Roberts is top student Queen’s College student Wallisa Roberts, who obtained Grade One passes in five subjects, heads the list of outstanding performers at this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE), according to preliminary results released by the Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday.

-army mum The main sugar union GAWU yesterday expressed concern about testimony in a New York courtroom that members of the army in 2005 moved the bodies of missing sugar workers from the front of Buxton to the backlands and it raised the question as to whether those who have been named shouldn’t be made to provide a response.

Early morning raids were conducted by the police yesterday in several East Bank Demerara villages and a number of persons including a suspect in two murders were arrested and an unlicensed weapon found.

They thought their life could get no better. Seeking shelter under an old wooden table as rain fell through the porous zinc sheet roof was the way of life  for 61-year-old Gladys Madramootoo, called ‘Moon’, and her surviving son David, a forty-five-year-old drainage and irrigation foreman, attached to the Canefield Enterprise Neighbourhood Democratic Council in East Canje, Berbice.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) says with access to quality education, decent work opportunities and adequate remuneration young workers can make an important contribution to the development of the country.

Magistrate Priya Beharry on Tuesday granted $100,000 bail each to two East Bank men accused of conspiring to commit a felony, when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A man accused of forging a will for a plot of land for his own benefit was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $200,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A $95M contract was yesterday sealed for the construction of a dormitory at Liliendaal for hinterland scholars.

The Education Ministry will be examining a proposed five-year educational plan, prepared by the Board of Governors of the St Stanislaus College which the institution says can be used as a model for private-public sector partnerships to transform secondary education in Guyana.

A Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara businessman and his wife were attacked and robbed by four men on Thursday of $200,000.

Magistrate Priya Beharry granted $60,000 bail to a woman accused of knowingly providing the police with false information that she had been raped.

A prisoner, who was serving two concurrent three-year sentences, escaped from the New Amsterdam Prisons on Thursday.

Government is spending $15M towards the hinterland component of the Uniform Programme this year and the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs is targeting approximately 7,000 students with a focus on Regions Seven and Eight, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a release.

The Linden Chamber of Industry, Commerce  and Development  (LCICD) at its recent AGM elected Basil Jaipaul as president and  Marvin Burns as senior vice- president, the Chamber said in a news release yesterday.

A Charity, Essequibo captain died shortly after sustaining injuries when two boats collided on the Moruca River on Thursday afternoon.

-elude chasers Two taxi drivers of Number 28 Village, West Berbice are upset that bandits stripped their cars early yesterday morning of lights valued over $200,000, cash and a bottle of cologne.

The Bauxite Company of Guyana (BCGI) has repaired 60 km of road including a 38-km stretch from Aroaima to Ituni (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice).

An Eccles/Ramsburg Neighbourhood Democratic Council tractor trailer driver who alleged caused the death of a co-worker and failed to report the incident and render assistance, was yesterday slapped with three charges and later released on $360,000 bail.

Over 250 books were delivered to the Buxton and Friendship Primary schools and Buxton Community High School each following a meeting between President Bharrat Jagdeo and community leaders about illiteracy in East Coast communities.

Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Thursday granted $100,000 bail to an Alexander Village man accused of stealing a man’s bag which contained $100,000.