Guyana News

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on his first visit to the Guyana School of Agriculture told students of the role their institution must play in the nation’s development programme.

Member countries of the Organisation of American States (OAS) face issues such as a lack of transparency in governance, bureaucracy and corruption and Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza thinks that “the quality of governance is certainly progressing” in the OAS.

Accredited foreign journalists last night flocked the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) at Turkeyen on the eve of the Summit of the Rio Group Meeting and minor hiccups with the toilets have been rectified.

Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally is refuting claims that he “turned down” requests for a meeting with JFAP leader CN Sharma.

AFC MP David Patterson has been named as part of the parliamentary delegation scheduled to travel to the US this month to study the Nebraska Legislature.

The Drop-in Centre for street children has recorded much success during the past year and marked development in the children who attend its literacy and nursery programme.

Two months into the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT), low income earners including civil servants who constitute the bulk of the country’s consuming public are still reeling from the steep increases in the cost-of-living sparked by the tax system.

A committee has been set up to investigate several discipline issues at the Wisburg Secondary School at Linden following an article in this newspaper and a report from the acting education officer in Region Ten.

Teachers and students of the Grove Primary School are upset over the water pressure level being supplied to the school which forces them to work and learn in an unsanitary environment.

Five bandits who pretended to be taxpayers on Thursday robbed the Better Hope/La Bonne Intention Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) of more than $2M which represented deposits and wages.

The US Government says that Guyana’s anti-money laundering regime is ineffective and the regulations accompanying the Money Laundering Prevention Act are inadequate.

Police in Essequibo were up to late last evening scouring the backlands at Bethany for the Mazaruni prison escapee who reportedly shot and killed the owner of a logging concession on Tuesday last.

The Venezuelan authorities are yet to turn over a report to Guyanese officials on the shooting to death of a Guyanese by members of the Venezuelan army at Etering-bang in October last year.

The parents of students attending the North George-town Secondary School staged a protest yesterday in a bid to win better security at the institution.

Holika Dhan or the burning of holika, which sets the stage for a day of gaiety and colour, takes place tonight at the Camptown Ground, Campbellville on the eve of Phagwah.

A man who was allegedly seen wheeling away another man’s motorcycle was on Wednesday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

The ‘A’ Division Community Policing Groups Management Committee made appointments at its 16th annual general meeting.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Thursday met with a team from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to discuss possible areas of cooperation in the aquaculture and pelagic (deep sea) sector.

A man who allegedly conspired with two others to plant narcotics on another man was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

A woman and her reputed husband who allegedly had large amounts of cocaine and cannabis in their possession at a hinterland location were yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.