Guyana News

Recent changes in the schedule of the MV Malali, which plies the Adventure to Parika route in the Essequibo have not gone down well with commuters, though officials say the changes are absolutely necessary.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Clarissa Riehl says that she will not be intimidated by persons who felt dissatisfied by her ruling on the Berbice Bridge motion debate in Parliament two weeks ago.

An accident early yesterday morning during which a car hit a parked truck has left three persons nursing injuries at the hospital Indra Chintan, her 15-year-old daughter Padmini, of Endeavour, Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and the driver of the car were admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Corporation.

Guyana Publications Inc has assumed responsibility for the publication of the Guyana Review monthly news magazine with effect from 1st January 2007.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is conducting Value-Added Tax (VAT) outreach exercises in Region Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara).

A tuberculosis (TB) laboratory which has the capacity to conduct complete testing for the disease has been commissioned at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) is still awaiting a response from the Office of the President on its request to meet President Bharrat Jagdeo on the issue of government’s withdrawal of ministry advertisements from the Stabroek News.

A nine-month-old baby suffered burns to his face during a fire at a Sophia home on Tuesday night, which has left a once homeless family without a roof over their heads yet again.

The two men accused of breaking into the CCS store on Camp Street and stealing over $1.8M were on Monday granted $150,000 bail each by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan when they made a second court appearance.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez sentenced a repeat offender to prison, after he admitted to breaking and entering and larceny of his sisters’ home, when he yesterday appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.

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Two prison officers appeared in the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday accused of negligence in the escape of nine convicted prisoners from the Mazaruni Prison earlier this month.

A farmer from the village of Kuru Kuru was shot and killed early yesterday during an encounter with three bandits who escaped with a significant quantity of cash and jewellery after tying up the man’s family with duct tape.

Hopes of the police ever finding the killers of activist and talk show host Ronald Waddell have begun to fade one year after they pumped 13 bullets into his body outside his Subryanville home.

Essequibo police suspect that a prisoner who staged a successful escape from the Mazaruni prison may have left his Bethany Mission, Supenaam Creek community and may be nearby in Mashabo.

A man of unsound mind was fatally shot yesterday afternoon by one of two armed policemen whom he reportedly attacked with a bread knife on Robb Street.

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir says a Ministerial Committee on HIV/AIDS was on Tuesday launched to educate employees about the infection and the support programmes available to help them to cope with it in the workplace.

Contractors in Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) were cautioned recently by Regional Executive Officer (REO) Desmond Kissoon that the Regional Tender and Procurement Board will this year debar or blacklist contractors who fail to deliver satisfactory and complete work within agreed deadlines.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) on Monday said that it is currently not investigating a complaint lodged with it by Vreed-en-Hoop headmaster Alvin Johnson as the matter had been referred to the Attorney-General’s Chambers by the Teaching Service Commis-sion (TSC).

More than two months after his wife was shot and killed during a robbery outside their home, a city jeweller is upset that to date the police have not yet taken a statement from him.