Guyana News

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson remanded a 22-year-old man accused of indecent assault when he on Wednesday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Human Services Ministry recently distributed 4,000 uniform vouchers to needy students across Region Six as it continues its school uniform assistance programme.

Seventy-three students who have completed the Hinterland Scholarship Programme (HSP) are set to return to their communities to share their knowledge and to help in the development process.

Twenty-two persons graduated from a three-day Trauma Team Training (TTT) workshop on Sunday and were urged by Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy “to make sufficient use of their skill to reduce trauma”.

The PNCR said Caricom must boost its governance structures and implement decisions taken as it attempts to conquer challenges and move forward.

The PPP has called for all the peoples of Caricom to rededicate themselves to promoting the unity and solidarity of the Caribbean.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) advises Customs House brokers that they must be licensed in order to conduct brokerage activities with the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA).

The Rotary Club of Georgetown, which marked its golden jubilee as a member of the Rotary family, having joined Rotary International in May 1959, recently installed its Board of Directors for the year 2009-2010.

– court hears Hatty Blackman, a twenty-four-year-old woman who in her attempts to secure employment with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) allegedly uttered a forged Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) certificate to the police constable at the Recruiting Office, was granted bail when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson last week.

In the face of doubts about the effectiveness of the current leadership of the main opposition, PNCR leader Robert Corbin says the party cannot allow itself to be diverted from the real issues facing the nation.

Every Child Guyana in collaboration with US-based charity Empowerment through Education and Equity, recently handed over a quantity of books on child protection topics to six secondary schools in Georgetown.

The Ministry of Agriculture has solicited support from the University of Arizona and has bought an excavator to further develop aquaculture.

The Social Work Unit of the University of Guyana will host the 9th Biennial Conference of Caribbean and Social Work Educators from July 20-24 at Le Meridien Pegasus.

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) urged delegates at the 18th Meeting of the Councils to use their resources to prepare a national disaster response as the region combats climate change and the H1N1 flu pandemic.

A 33-year-old Wismar resident was on Sunday evening shot in his left upper thigh after he attempted to escape from a policeman who was conducting a search on him at a joint services roadblock.

LONDON (Reuters) – David Cameron said yesterday the Conservatives would take a fresh approach to culling Britain’s 790 non-elected quangos that spend nearly 43 billion pounds a year, and singled out the media regulator Ofcom for particular attention.

A new executive was elected to head the Bush Lot Community Development Committee (CDC) which would now have responsibilities for the entire village instead of just the new housing scheme.

– relatives displeased with police investigation Almost three weeks after sustaining multiple injuries during a road accident Bibi Nisha Alli died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) without ever regaining consciousness.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara died yesterday aged 93.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Singers Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Usher and Lionel Richie, and Motown records founder Berry Gordy, will be among those taking part in Michael Jackson’s memorial today, the family’s spokesman said.