Guyana News

December 8 has now been set as the new date for the University of Guyana’s (UG) annual graduation exercise, following the postponement of the ceremony owing to a fall out between the Academic Board and the Council.

Over the last week police have made a further 1,648 cases against defaulting motorists as zero tolerance enforcement of traffic laws continues across the country.

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) said preliminary findings of an audit on Willems Timber and Trading Company have indicated that the company has breached its operational procedures and penalties will be instituted upon the completion of the investigations.

Trinidadian Jacqueline Jack was elected as the first-ever female president of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) at its 16th Triennial Delegates Conference earlier this month in St Vincent.

The national programme for the prevention and control of Tuberculosis (TB), a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-funded project has been further boosted with the successful training of 14 new field outreach workers.

‘Trunkers’ (thieves specializing in stealing from vehicles) yesterday made off with a large amount of money from a vehicle belonging to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) employee after supposedly tracing him from a city bank.

Two vehicles collided at Grove on Thursday night killing a pedestrian and injuring two others who are now patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The water treatment plant at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) has been experiencing some technical difficulties, which have affected Guyana Water Incorporated customers in the areas from Atlantic Gardens to Industry.

Former Guyana Defence Force soldier Mark Fraser was found guilty of manslaughter in the High Court yesterday over the killing of another soldier at an East Coast camp five years ago.

A Bagotstown man was shot dead and then robbed of cash shortly after eight o’clock last night by at least two bandits, while he was delivering cooking gas at Stevedore Housing Scheme in south Georgetown.

A chef who allegedly chopped another in his head with a hatchet during a confrontation in City Mall on Regent Street was on Wednesday charged with attempted murder.

Seventeen Latin American and Caribbean countries have pledged to improve basic water and sanitation services by placing these issues high on their political agendas.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday that consistent electricity supply would return in a day or two.

A gun-toting bandit yesterday snatched a bag containing the day’s sales from a Kissoon Furniture Store employee, as he was about to do a safety deposit at a city bank.

A 35-year-old father of six of Friendship, Corentyne had to be rushed to the New Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon after four persons in the area beat him about his head and body pieces of wood and a steel rod in apparent revenge over a previous matter involving the police.

For a second year HIV testing will be done countrywide today and efforts have been scaled up to reach the target of 2,500 persons before sites close at 5 pm.

A new four-year Collective Labour Agreement (CLA)was signed Wednesday by the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) and the Management of Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc at Watooka House in Linden.

The defence and prosecution in the case involving a man accused of stuffing over 13 kilos of cocaine in corilla for shipping made closing arguments at the Providence Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, but the matter was later adjourned to allow the defence counsel to make further submissions.

A group of senior tourism students from the University of Guyana (UG) recently handed over a number of items to Youth Challenge Guyana’s (YCG) Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programme.

The Food for the Poor (FFTP) organization recently presented 50 combination chairs and other items to the Lachmansingh Primary School at Bush Lot, West Berbice, as part of its drive to assist in the education sector.