Guyana News

“Girl, when you poor and you can’t do this and you can’t do that, wa you gon do?”

Government has placed emphasis on recovery of the sugar industry even as it prepares to deal with a loss of $9 billion in revenue from October 1 and the new board has already started to make positive changes, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said.

What was a far-off dream for 12-year-old Kyle Joseph became a reality when he found out that he topped his region in the 2009 National Grade Six Assess-ment (NGSA).

– Director The National Public Health Institute (NPHI) which serves as the nucleus of national laboratory services and does advanced laboratory testing and comprehensive clinical care under one roof marked its first anniversary last Friday.

– says climate change, free movement, economic crisis need urgent attention Guyana’s main opposition party, the PNCR says it believes that Caricom would have to urgently tackle the challenges of climate change, free movement of its citizens and measures to overcome the current economic crisis, even as it expressed satisfaction at the recent Caricom Heads of Government Meeting.

The PNCR believes that if it is indeed necessary for the government to sell its 20 percent share in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), employees of the company should be afforded the first option to purchase same.

In the continuing court saga surrounding Clico’s (Guyana) immovable assets Appeal Court judge, Justice B.S

– ministry eying speedier distribution The Ministry of Housing has begun the move to a more organized and project-oriented system which will result in shortened transaction time for house lot applicants, and under this new dispensation no applicant, as long as he/she does not already own property, will be refused.

-govt refuses request to have bill sent to Special Select Committee A bill legalising the appointment of lay magistrates and the establishment of Lay Magistrates’ Courts locally was on Thursday evening passed in the National Assembly, ten years after it was first introduced in the House.

– urges ministry to hand over sports commission’s funds The 2007 Auditor General’s report has outlined some concerns in relation to financial transactions associated with the National Sports Commission and the National Trust, which fall under the oversight of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

Approximately $406,727 is spent annually to maintain one prison inmate, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee told the National Assembly on Thursday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs last Friday donated a Nissan Frontier 4×4 vehicle and a JH125L Jailing motorcycle to ‘A’ division Community Policing Group (CPG).

Roy McCoy, who was injured in the motorcycle crash that killed two persons on the Essequibo Coast on Saturday is to undergo an operation tomorrow.

An East Coast Demerara businessman died after he was reportedly electrocuted while operating a plucking machine at his home yesterday.

Three teachers from the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) and a University of Guyana lecturer on Wednesday received certificates following their successful completion of the Online Teachers Training Programme.

Police raided a Corentyne home on Friday and arrested two men following the discovery of an unlicensed firearm.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Alan Garcia  named a member of his pro-business ruling party as prime  minister yesterday after bowing to opposition pressure to  shake up his Cabinet in the worst crisis of his term.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) said its ranks on mobile patrol are briefed on proper code of conduct when stopping motorists, in response to an item published in the Friday edition of the Kaieteur News.

URUMQI, China (Reuters) – China raised the death  toll from ethnic rioting in Xinjiang, giving for the first time  the ethnicity of the dead, and a big security presence in the  city at the centre of the strife prevented protests yesterday.

ACCRA (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama told  Africans yesterday that Western aid must be matched by good  governance and urged them to take greater responsibility for  stamping out war, corruption and disease plaguing the continent.