Guyana News

By next year the government is hoping to construct a technical and vocational institute in Region Three, Education Minister, Shaik Baksh said while addressing a gathering at the commissioning of the $82M Greenwich Park Primary School on Wednesday.

Police from Suriname are expected in the country this morning and will be viewing the two bodies which were found on Thursday and Saturday in Corentyne, Berbice, since there are reports of missing men in the neighbouring country, local police said yesterday.

The National Assembly last night approved a motion acknowledging with appreciation the Guyana Government for having the courage and wisdom to take the Guyana claim on the Suriname maritime boundary to the UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

Though a warrant was issued for the arrest of the main witness to testify in the Number 60 Village wedding house murder trial, he failed to show up in court on Wednesday and Justice William Ramlal upheld no-case submissions.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) in its determination to recover outstanding revenue and reduce losses due to electricity theft is speeding up the system improvement and loss reduction work to standardize the network in the West Ruimveldt area.

Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza is reportedly facing an allegation that he unduly pressured the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to reverse a decision to fire its Freedom of Expression Rapporteur.

The historic inaugural meeting between Secretary-General Edwin Carrington, Heads of CARICOM institutions under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, and other regional institutions, concluded in Georgetown with a commitment to maintaining a continuing dialogue.

Town Clerk Beulah Williams said yesterday that the striking workers have been paid their October salaries and garbage collection in the city has resumed.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has launched an investigation into an allegation levelled against one of its officers by a Greek national who said that he was forced to give the officer US$20.

The Guyana Forestry Com-mission (GFC) is refuting the Forest Products Association’s (FPA) charge that there was little or no stakeholder consultation on the new lumber yard and sawmilling regulations and standards set to come into force in January.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it is working to restore service to the St Mary’s Secondary School.

President Bharrat Jagdeo encouraged youths at the launching of Tourism Awareness Month yesterday to set a target of contacting one million persons through social networking sites like hi5 and Facebook and spread positive news about Guyana.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security says 2008 old age pension books are available for a number of areas.

The man discovered dead on the Georgetown seawall on Wednesday afternoon has been identified as 55-year-old Mohamed Haroon Alli of North Grove, East Bank Demerara.

A Jamaican man who allegedly had over seven kilos of cocaine in his possession while he was an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Kevin Anthony, who was accused of killing another man at the Main Big Lime celebrations two years ago, was freed in the High Court yesterday after a jury found him not guilty of murder.

The handwriting of a junior supervisor attached to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri allegedly linked him to the 38 kilos of ganja, grenades and firearms bust at the airport.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) says Fazeel Ferouz was unanimously returned as president when the Central Executive Council (CEC) recently held elections.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday averted a garbage disaster in the city when he agreed to allocate $184M to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to pay striking workers and garbage contractors who had withdrawn their services.

A 32-year-old man went berserk yesterday and severed the head of another man around 12:15 pm at Seafield Village, West Coast Berbice after firing several other chops wildly.