Guyana News

Police are investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a Zeelandia Estate, Wakenaam, Essequibo River pensioner.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says customers in Kingston will experience a disruption in service as the well which supplies the area is undergoing emergency repairs.

The allocation for the housing sector in this year’s budget supersedes last year’s by some $500M and special emphasis would continue to be placed on low-income earners, Housing and Water Minister Harry Narine Nawbatt said on Monday.

The Ministry of Agriculture is mourning the passing of one of its former ministers Gavin B Kennard.

The Women’s Studies Unit, located in the Institute of Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana, was the recipient of a generous donation from the Democracy and Governance Programme of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The National Elections in August last year has been blamed for the lateness of the Auditor General’s report, which is now to be presented to the Speaker of the National Assembly in March.

A three-member Guyanese delegation is participating in the first India-Latin America Conclave: Project Partnerships 2007, being organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi.

The department of education in Region 10 is investigating the vandalizing of the head teacher’s office and some vital equipment belonging to the Linden Foundation Secondary School.

Citing data from a study put together by the World Bank, Alliance for Change MP Khemraj Ramjattan in parliament on Friday sought to highlight a number of aspects of the country’s development which he argued were not dealt with in the budget.

The People’s National Con-gress Reform-One Guyana (PNCR-1G) yesterday joined calls for a complete overhaul of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and said that the organisation was now being looked at as a burden to workers.

Several shortcomings and in one instance inaccurate information were discovered in the early stages of the implementation of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Guyana, according to an audit done in 2005.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha encourages devotees to attend celebrations for this year’s Maha Shivaratri.

Gunmen on Monday robbed the proprietor of a jewellery shop and his customer of more than $400,000 in cash and jewels.

On Monday teachers at the Mackenzie High School implemented a board of governors decision to suspend classes for Forms One to Three as the steps to the building which hosts those classes are unsafe.

A suspected armed robber is under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he sustained injuries in an exchange of gunfire with his intended victim.

Point guard Steffon ‘Penny’ Henry and centre Horace Hodges came into Courts Pacesetters’ starting lineup Sunday night to help the Georgetown number one seeded team get past East Coast at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

They are the defending KFC Cup One-day champions. They also won the inaugural Stanford Twenty20 cricket competition beating none other than Trinidad and Tobago in the finals last year.

Black History Month-which used to mean little more than patronising publicity about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King-has taken on new life in America this year.

Robbery under arms accused Shawn Barrow will face another trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Demerara after a jury last week failed to reach a verdict.

Nearly two years after his ex-wife’s burnt body was found in a cemetery behind their Mocha home Lloyd McCleoud is on trial in the High Court for murder.