Guyana News

Calling on men to stand up in opposition against all forms of violence, especially the rampant plague of violence against women, the Men Empowering Network (MEN) yesterday launched an ambitious agenda to tackle the problem through direct engagements across the country.

– British High Commissioner ‘frustrated’ British High Commissioner Fraser Wheeler yesterday blamed the administration’s bureaucracy for delaying implementation of the UK-funded security sector reform plan.

–  victim’s brother says The twin brother of 38-year-old Enid Sharpe, who died in a tragic accident on the Linden Highway at Amelia’s Ward last Friday has denied the police’s claims that he showed aggression to army ranks adding that they first fired at his feet and not in the air.

A speeding, overloaded vehicle is believed to have led to the Corentyne tragedy that left a mother of two dead on Sunday.

A policeman and a merchant, who allegedly robbed another man at gunpoint of a motor van and several other items totalling over $8 million, were both remanded to prison yesterday when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Poor security, leaking roofs and insanitary conditions at the Bourda Market are just some of the reasons why its vendors are refusing to pay what they are calling “unfair” increases on stall rentals.

The CIOG said the nation must resolve to curb exploitation and face other challenges head-on if it is to chart a future that builds on the sacrifices of ancestors, as it observes Guyana’s 43rd independence anniversary today.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has issued a call to action to reassert the country’s independence and common humanity on the occasion of the 43rd Independence Anniversary being observed today.

Mayor Hamilton Green calls on the media, educators, youth activists, religious and political leaders to curb the creeping moral decline insidiously taking hold of the society, in his message to mark Guyana’s 43rd independence anniversary.

While Guyana has come a far way since it became an independent state 43 years ago, the country is now more divided than ever, according to the PNCR.

In its independence message the Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU) said it celebrates the Guyanese defiance of dictatorship and applauds current attempts to rescue the country’s socio-economic independence from both internal and external factors and enemies.

Fifty-six years after it was formed the Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO) says that it is proud to say that it has played a fundamental role in shaping the political and social landscape of Guyana.

The strengthening of the country’s economy and the continuous development of its human capital is seen as vital to consolidating and developing the freedom the country attained on May 26, 1966, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said in its independence anniversary message.

A fire last evening destroyed a two-bedroom house in the Meadow Brook Squatting Area leaving six persons homeless.

– urges political cooperation President Bharrat Jagdeo early this morning slammed the current upsurge of domestic violence perpetrated against women and children stating that his administration would not tolerate such abuse.

The transplant operations of the two kidney patients were success stories and both patients and their donors are recuperating and responding well to treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

An East Canje resident is pleading with a senior police officer to repair her damaged fence and storeroom, which he collided with shortly after midnight on Saturday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a pig farmer when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the 2005 murder of Roy Talbot.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The UN Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear test yesterday, saying it was a “clear violation” of a previous resolution passed in 2006 after Pyongyang’s first atomic test.

A poultry farmer and his family were on Sunday afternoon robbed of over $3 million in cash and jewellery by two men, one of whom was armed with gun, who had visited the family under the pretext of purchasing chicken.