Guyana News

A 58-year-old man died on Saturday night after he was allegedly hit in the head with a piece of wood by his drinking buddy with whom he had an argument over a pornographic magazine.

Police in Berbice are continuing intense investigations into the shocking discovery of the decomposing bodies of two males, believed to be of Caucasian descent, which were found at different points on the Corentyne on Saturday and Thursday.

Bishop’s High School ‘old boy’ Arun Gajraj joined two relatives when he was recently admitted to the bar.

To many people Dr. Gary Stephens is the extrovert, bald-style man with a trademark smile at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) who recently led the medical team in Guyana’s first by-pass surgery.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is upping the ante in the protection of biodiversity and the conservation of natural resources with its new draft Wildlife Manage-ment and Conservation Regulations, now being circulated for comment.

One bill is to be introduced, and two motions are to be laid in the National Assembly when its sittings resume on Thursday, November 1 at 14:00 hrs in the Parliament Chambers after a two-month recess.

The Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud and the Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday educated farmers on the proposed Pounds Act amendment which is to be tabled in the National Assembly and which will see stiffer fines being implemented for owners of stray animals.

A 50-year-old man is now nursing stab wounds to his body at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he went to the rescue of a woman who was being robbed at the Linden bus park and was attacked by the bandit.

Clem Seecharran is a son of Guyana and a true scholar.

The Suddie Diagnostic and Treatment Centre is set for a year-end opening and is expected to service hundreds of residents from the Essequibo Coast.

The Ministry of Home Affairs through the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project has embarked on a mission to help decrease the spread of HIV among the prison population and to help reintegrate infected persons into society at the end of their prison sentence.

Three persons who were detained on Friday last following a narcotics and ammunition bust at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri remain in custody.

The bound, decomposing bodies of two males appearing to be of Caucasian descent were discovered at separate points on the Corentyne yesterday and Thursday and the police were last night contemplating the gamut of possibilities behind the macabre find.

TUC General Secretary Lincoln Lewis says the labour movement has to be more militant, vocal and aggressive on issues affecting it and he argued that there were increasing signs of an elected dictatorship, a charge that the ruling party yesterday slapped down.

For the first time in the history of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), a woman has been elected as president of the umbrella body.

Former President, Mrs. Janet Jagan, has re-stated her call for an end to the withdrawal of government advertising from Stabroek News.

Flour prices remain high even as the National Milling Com-pany of Guyana (Namilco) alleges that the Trinidad and Tobago National Flour Mill (NFM) is dumping flour on the local market and is contributing to heavy losses and scaled-down production.

The US State Department has taken steps towards a special resettlement programme for deportees from the US that will afford them job training and placement at a cost of millions of dollars.

Omai Gold Mines Limited is not yet done with gold in Guyana and hopes that in a year’s time it is ready to move forward with a new mine, having closed its 12- year operations in the Essequibo River in the latter part of 2005.

Mayor Hamilton Green has again placed the blame for the cash-strapped situation that the city is facing solely at the feet of the Central Govern-ment, stressing that the council is being prevented from broadening its revenue base.