Guyana News

A Surinamese national who is facing a charge for possession of ammunition was slapped with a charge of escaping from lawful custody when he appeared before Magistrate Chandra Sohan at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says he is dissatisfied with the education bureaucracy and says he had suggested a long time ago that the Ministry of Education collaborate with the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD) to prepare special learning programmes to boost the sector.

Local wildlife dealers and trappers are to meet later in the week to discuss proposals on how the embargo on wild caught birds by the European Union (EU) can be mitigated.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says that though an investigation into allegations of transfer pricing is still ongoing, there has not been any evidence to suggest that companies here are engaging in this.

A woman is dead and two persons were critically injured after a speeding car crashed into another one on the Hutsonville Public Road, East Bank Demerara yesterday around 6.30 pm.

The still traumatised children of Agnes Henry and Abdool Hafeez constantly talk about the night their father “kill heself” and at night they are terrified, their grandmother Bibi Shahidan Khan says.

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Edwin Carrington, has expressed deep regret at the death of Oliver Jackman who served his home country Barbados, the Caribbean region and the international community as journalist, diplomat and jurist.

He was the surprise hit of the British TV autumn; Mark Ramprakash, the once removed son of the soil of Cornelia Ida West Coast Demerara, Guyana danced his way to fame (and fortune?)

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) would be executing some 60 feet of emergency revetment work on the Boerasirie Water Conservancy to strengthen the structure.

Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Development Kellawan Lall has called on officials to be more proactive in their respective communities by paying visits to schools and health facilities to assess, monitor, evaluate and give feedback to the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs).

Two years after their plight was highlighted in the Stabroek News, a family of 12 of Vive-La-Force is still anxiously awaiting a house lot after numerous frustrating efforts and even though the Ministry of Human Services had promised to work along with the Ministry of Housing in securing same.

City Mayor Hamilton Green is calling for a public apology or an explanation for what he considers an offensive statement in reference to Guyana in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 ticket brochure.

The Ministry of Housing and Water is seeking to expedite the issuing of land titles and transports for house lots in squatter settlements and housing schemes countrywide, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported Friday.

The Ministry of Health played a lead role in urging government offices and private entities to participate in a national blood donation exercise.

Businessman Clayton Hutson was recently arrested by the police and questioned in relation to several matters.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has started to investigate a complaint of unfair treatment by Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School Headmaster Alvin Johnson following his request to the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) for a promotion.

How did an old hefty cannon found in the Demerara River disappear from the Ministry of Public Works compound, Wight’s Lane although it was supposed to have been closely guarded?

The Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (NGMC) will be sending mobile trucks with supplies of basic commodities to Berbice and Linden, offering zero-rated and exempt items for sale at competitive prices to residents.

In the six months that it has been operational, the Cancer Care Institute at the Georgetown Public Hospital has seen a continuous flow of patients.

The Junior Calypso Monarch Competition got underway on Saturday at the St Ignatius Sport Club Ground as part of Region Nine’s roster of events for this year’s Mashramani celebrations.