Guyana News

Twenty-year-old Janelle Marshall died early yesterday morning in Wismar when the truck she was travelling in crashed into a store before hitting a lamp pole on Burnham Drive and injuring the other three passengers.

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo is clever when, at the Caricom summit in St.

Approaching two years since government unveiled a much-heralded drug strategy master plan, with promised innovations such as wiretapping legislation and an enforcement post near the Orinoco Delta, the administration is yet to appoint a coordinator and the National Anti-Narcotics Coordinating Secretariat (NANCOS) is still to be set up.

On the night of February 17, 2007, the man known as ‘Mighty Rebel’ sang his way to a history-making fifth calypso monarch crown.

The pilot who landed his aircraft at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri last Tuesday and then disappeared for four days returned to remove the plane on Saturday and has now been identified as a reserve Major of the Jamaican Defence Force.

Eleven-year-old Ottey Simon is amazing doctors with her upbeat attitude and energetic spirits while undergoing last-chance chemotherapy to treat the growing tumour that has been threatening to take over her face.

Security reform and the increasing crime rate topped the budget debate presentation by PNCR-1G Parliamen-tarian Deborah Backer who sang a rhyme highlighting the gun problem facing the country.

By Miranda La Rose Though in principle the Guyana government has accepted the need for a better governance mechanism within Caricom, it has certain reservations based on what it perceives to be the technocratic nature of the proposed Caricom Commission, Minis-ter of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation, Dr Henry Jeffrey says.

A 28-year-old man who allegedly abducted a young girl and later fondled her was on Friday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) has congratulated the government and BOSAI on the deal for the bauxite company at Linden as the continuation of operations is important to the country.

Police in Berbice are set to lay charges today against Dorset Mc Cammon, the man who allegedly fatally shot a policeman two Saturdays ago at the Carib Soca monarch contest in New Amsterdam.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) two Saturdays ago seized a number of weighing devices from fish vendors at the Meadow Bank wharf, East Bank Demerara, during an early morning inspection.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently coordinated a tree labelling exercise for ten different types of trees along some popular city streets and is encouraging businesses to sponsor such exercises.

The steering committee of the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO) said its inaugural annual general meeting (AGM) for the establishment of its television station will be held on March 7.

As the allocations in the budget were scrutinized on Friday opposition parliamentarians queried various allocations to ministries, in particular an increase in contracted staff at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

Health workers in Region Five were overjoyed after the district was honoured by the Ministry of Health for being the “best performing region in the management of Maternal & Child Health delivery services.”

Proprietor of the Celina Atlantic resort, Bernard Yhun, says that he is being victimized.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says it is concerned that when the high voltage power lines in Sophia burst and fell the squatters dwelling on Engineering Dam could have been injured.

Chief Justice Carl Singh on Saturday convened what he termed ‘a troubleshooting exercise’ where magistrates were given the chance to thrash out matters affecting the proper functioning of the Magistrate’s courts.

A 61-year-old man on Saturday night collapsed while singing chowtals at a religious function and was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital.