Guyana News

A Fisheries Advisory Committee (FAC) was officially launched on Friday, and this is said to signal government’s commitment to the effective management and sustainable development of the country’s fisheries resources.

Representatives of the Canadian Exploration company ExxonMobil met President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday to finalise offshore drilling arrangements in anticipation of a favourable outcome of the ongoing territorial dispute between Guyana and Suriname.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says that Caricom shares with the Rio Group deep concerns over rising crime in the region and the need for security cooperation.

The National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) recently sold 25 Boer goats to farmers countrywide to improve the local breeding stock under a public/private sector initiative.

A strike by workers has caused a total shutdown at the La Bonne Intention (LBI) sugar estate and this action has since spread to the estate at Enmore where workers downed tools two days ago over what they call the “wrongful dismissal” of a colleague.

Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Edward Collins yesterday told the opening of the Army Officers Conference that all of the hard work of the joint services would come to naught if they did not recover the stolen AK-47 rifles which were spirited out from Camp Ayanganna last year.

By Johann Earle The United States Southern Command yesterday handed over a newly completed disaster response warehouse to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) to serve Guyana and countries in the region suffering from natural and other disasters.

The only son of Vibert Parvatan, Director of Laparkan Trading died in Canada five days after he had left Guyana where he had attended his uncle’s funeral.

Businesses whose Value Added Tax (VAT) returns claim a refund can uplift the refund application forms from the VAT and Excise Tax building at Albert and Charlotte streets.

Investigations are continuing into the suspected murder of a Zeelugt fisherman and his reputed wife is still in custody while detectives are said to have made a breakthrough in the case.

The Heads of State and Government of the Rio Group recently reaffirmed their support for what they referred to as the “legitimate rights” of the Argentine Republic in the sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands question.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March: I am happy and honoured to send you my warmest wishes on International Women’s Day – my first one as Secretary-General of the United Nations.

No one works more hours than grassroots women. In a survey of women’s time use in 2004-2005, grassroots women in Red Thread followed the workdays of over 100 other grassroots Indo-Guyanese, Afro-Guyanese, Indigenous and mixed race women.

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Though the Spanish were the first to sail and chart the Guiana Coast it is the Dutch who are credited with establishing the first permanent settlements in Guyana.

The Women’s Progressive Organisation salutes all Guyanese women on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Purple, green and white are the official international women’s colours. The colours originated from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), in the UK in 1908.

No matter where a girl is born, she should live free of discrimination and violence.

President of Camptown Football Club, (CFC) Troy Mendonca, yesterday received a donation of $150,000 from Renatta Exeter, a representative of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) company, in aid of the club’s inter-street football tournament.

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Assoc-iation (GAWA) will commence their season with a National Novices Championship on March 25 at Blue Note Club.