Guyana News

The shooting of Commissioner of Insurance Maria van Beek by a gunman last month may have been to settle an old score relating to a local insurance company, according to a reliable source.

Even as President Bharrat Jagdeo prepares to press the case for better treatment of Guyanese residing in Barbados, the sentiment among politicians is that there should be improvements at home so as to encourage them to stay here.

– Alexander feels all parties need to atone Admitting that the PNC has made mistakes and some members may have done wrong in the past, prospective leadership candidate Dr Richard Van West Charles says the party has to take the blame, apologise as a principle and move forward.

Former first lady Varshnie Singh has described the recent passage of the Office for the Spouse of the President Bill by the National Assembly as a good move.

– pins him in trench A rice farmer of Wash Clothes, Mahaicony Creek was killed when the tractor he was driving careened into a trench and pinned him around 8.20 pm on Friday as he was returning home from work.

– challenges EC ‘interpretation’ Government, in defence of its actions regarding budgetary disbursements by the European Commission (EC) said it has met required deadlines and specified conditions but funds are still being withheld.

“We deh from house to house since the accident,” a frustrated Mohamed Kazim Hanif, whose house collapsed after two cars slammed into it last month, said yesterday.

Five workshops were held on Friday at the Guyana International Conference Center, Liliendaal, for children between the age groups of 9 and 14 to develop their capabilities in the application of ICT for creative and innovative activities.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO hosted an International Health Regulations and Pandemic Influenza workshop in order to equip health care workers to detect and manage pandemic influenza.

Two men, who robbed a Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara Chinese Restaurant of over $280,000 on Friday night, are in police custody and will be charged shortly.

Almost a month after being severely injured when the vessel he was in was rammed by another boat, goldsmith Tulsiram Sukdeo is conscious but has lost portions of his memory and cannot remember the incident.

– Jagdeo President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday that the account for the US$15 million he was able to secure from the Petroleum Fund to meet some of the liabilities of CLICO Guyana has been established at the Bank of Guyana but the funds have not yet been disbursed.

The GDF soldier who had accidentally shot himself in the face on May 2 is still a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

In a new twist of events, the man who claimed that police “broke open” his door on Wednesday morning to arrest him for a murder that had not occurred is in fact wanted for questioning into robbery under arms.

Thomas Road and Albert Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 pm tomorrow to facilitate the smooth conduct of the Independence Anniversary Flag Raising Ceremony.

The transmission rate of HIV can be significantly reduced should infected patients on treatment adhere to their medication, a treatment specialist who has been working with patients for the last few months has said.

Preventing the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children and providing ongoing care and treatment were some of the issues dealt with at the World Health Assembly.

Representatives of the YWCA of Guyana have joined 50 other women in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) at a workshop aimed at ending violence against women and the spread of HIV in the Caribbean.

Justice Diana Insanally last week sentenced an armed robbery convict to five years imprisonment after a probation report she had requested was presented at the Berbice Assizes.

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce said it has thrown its full support behind the hosting of ‘Wakenaam Nite’ set for August.