Guyana News

Over the next week and a half, President Bharrat Jagdeo will be out of the country on official state business.

The country continues to do well economically in spite of the global financial crisis, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said, stating that its performance on the revenue side was encouraging.

Another man accused of setting the Ministry of Health on fire was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

–childcare agency launched President Bharrat Jagdeo says his administration will get tough on prosecuting child abusers, persons accused of trafficking in persons and also domestic violence, declaring yesterday that he has called on law enforcement officials to “pay greater attention to these issues”.

A delegation from the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services will be visiting the National Insurance Scheme’s offices in Berbice on August 3 as part of the Committee’s mandate.

GuySuCo CEO Errol Hanoman has corrected a report in Tuesday’s edition of the Stabroek News in which he was quoted as saying “GuySuCo is not young-people friendly”.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats broke a logjam in President Barack Obama’s drive to revamp the costly U.S. 

KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – A Sudanese woman facing 40  lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance  in a court packed with supporters yesterday, in what her  lawyer described as a test case of Sudan’s decency laws.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric  Holder warned yesterday of increased “radicalization” of  Americans in recent months, two days after seven people were arrested in North Carolina for allegedly plotting attacks overseas.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Attacks on press freedoms in  Gambia are the worst in West Africa, a press watchdog said yesterday amid mounting criticism of the country’s case against  six journalists charged with sedition and defamation.

Only a part of the squatter-filled Skull City can be regularized, according to Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali.

The Inter-American Development Bank yesterday approved a US$800 million supplementary loan to Venezuela for the completion of the Manuel Pilar (Tocoma) hydropower project in the Lower Caroní River Valley.

An informant for the US government yesterday said confessed drug kingpin Roger Khan ordered the execution of political activist Ronald Waddell.

The Government Information Agency last night reported that twenty leaders from the various regions were elected before Amerindian Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai, to serve on the National Toshaos Council (NTC).

-pleads guilty, jailed for four years A woman was yesterday fined $2,658,600 and sentenced to four years imprisonment for the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking after she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 30-year-old Guyanese man appeared before a court in The Bahamas yesterday for allegedly beating his girlfriend’s daughter in the mouth with a belt buckle.

The Guyana Sugar Corpo-ration is disputing PNCR claims that  sugar is increasingly scarce in Georgetown and other urban areas, saying it had not received any complaints from consumers on shortages.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Colonel Godwin McPherson has died. He was 62 years-old.

Olga Bone, a woman acknowledged as one of the nation’s premier educators, has died. 

A member of the New Horizon Project, a former fire-fighter in the Maryland Fire & Rescue Department  in the US  visited the Guyana Fire Service  last Wednesday  to make his expertise available  in light of the recent fire at the Ministry of Health.