Guyana News

Information on Carifesta X which is billed for Guyana in August next year can be accessed at its website, www.carifesta.net,

For the second time around USAID and PEPFAR will be teaming up with Lifeline Counselling as they prepare to host the 10th annual Phillip Vanderhyden walk-a-ton which is billed for tomorrow.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) are hosting Canje Night at the Rose Hall Community Centre in East Berbice, tonight.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has urged REOs to cooperate with his ministry to ensure that there is accountability and accuracy in the management of hospitals and health centres and he added that more authority will be given to them.

Five days after it was revealed that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) had seized 4,000 carats of rough diamonds from a Belgian firm suspected to have been smuggled into this country there has been no charge against the company and authorities have been saying little.

Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) says that pipelines are being installed in Sophia B Field to establish a network that will serve residents and within 14 days it is expected that the Sophia No.

Five days after it was revealed that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) had seized 4,000 carats of rough diamonds from a Belgian firm suspected to have been smuggled into this country there has been no charge against the company and authorities have been saying little.

Two boys who allegedly broke into a woman’s home and stole her jewellery and damaged items worth over $1.1 million and reportedly had 15 cartridges at Kwakwani were on Tuesday remanded into police custody by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

The trial of a customs officer accused of attempting to obstruct the course of justice by unlawfully uplifting four persons along with more than 1,000 cases of beer and a truck from the Leonora Police station began yesterday with Special Constable Robert Campbell of the Parika Police Station giving evidence.

A man was arrested yesterday morning at Limlair Village, Corentyne in connection with the robbery at a hardware store at Bengal Farm on Wednesday and the police recovered a 9 mm pistol and three matching live rounds of ammunition.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday sentenced two men to eight years imprisonment, after they confessed to breaking into homes, on the advice of a woman, and stealing items worth over $2M while the alleged mastermind was remanded.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier who allegedly hit another rank who was playing music over the head with a piece of iron was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge by Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Hitting back at Barama’s announcement that workers would have to be laid off as a result of heavy fines by the forestry commission, the government yesterday said it would not be blackmailed and it added that interim arrangements can be made to ensure the company’s plywood factory is supplied with raw material.

Queen’s College student, Wainella Isaacs who gained fourteen subjects at this year’s sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams has been named the most outstanding student overall and she will receive her award during the Annual Meeting of Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) slated for December 6 in St Lucia.

Guyanese management consultant Dr Aubrey Armstrong says trade unions have to be creative in the fight to sustain themselves and he slammed the government over the withdrawal of the subvention of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) noting that CLC had given many a second chance when the formal system failed them.

Government has allocated $40M for the construction of a two-storey block at the Camp Street Prison to mitigate overcrowding.

The Critchlow Labour College (CLC) might be forced to close its doors since the Government has once again withdrawn its monthly subvention without any reason, GTUC President Andrew Garnett warned last evening.

A former supervisor of Boodhoo’s General Store at Parika who was previously charged with stealing over half a million dollars from her employer denied 52 additional charges amounting to over $3.5M when she appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has underscored the need to strengthen the relationship between the CARICOM Secretariat and the various community institutions while addressing yesterday’s first ever assembly of regional institutions in the 34-year life of the Caribbean Community.

St Stanislaus College teacher Angelique Mohamed succumbed to the injuries she suffered during an accident on Sunday night.