Guyana News

Guyana has not seen an increase in dengue cases but a few neighbouring countries have, so the country is on high alert and local surveillance has been scaled up, according to Minister of Health, Dr.

For farmers in two hinterland villages, located hundreds of miles apart, common concerns of transportation, markets, pests and climate change were raised with Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud, when he visited the two communities yesterday.

The Ministry of Health on Thursday launched its Youth Friendly Services (YFS) programme in Region Three at the Windsor Forest Health Centre.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) will next month hold special consultations with organisations, groups and individuals of the African-Guyanese community who will be able to make known their concerns.

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) says it is grateful to those persons whose generosity allowed it to respond promptly to the needs of the fire victims at Laing Avenue and it encourages the public to continue to assist.

Wireless Connections said three of its customers benefited from its Monday Moods and Friday Hits live radio programmes, with one walking away with $120,000.

Commonwealth Ministers of Finance in their discussions here this week focused on issues relating to governance at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as they recognised the need to identify and raise additional funding for infrastructure development programmes.

Chairman of the University of Guyana Council, Dr. Prem Misir barred the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) from sitting in at a key meeting last evening to discuss the contract renewal of Dr.

Defence attorneys for Ashanti Schultz who is accused of murdering a hospital porter during a shooting melee on Main Street argued for and received additional witnesses’ statements as the second witness testified.

The Buddy’s fuel trial was once again stalled yesterday owing to the absence of the prosecution and the defence has still not laid over their written submissions to the court although they were warned to do so almost two weeks ago.

Tempers flared last Friday while a time was being set for the continuation of the Farouk Razac murder PI this week and ended with special prosecutor Hukumchand threatening to give up the case in which beauty queen Carolan Lynch is accused of her husband’s murder, saying that his schedule was not taken into consideration when a High Court judge ordered that the case be heard whenever that court sits.

Stating that he could not “accept” the custodial penalty for simple larceny, a man accused of stealing produce worth over $170,000 was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday clarified his statement made at the opening of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting on Monday when he spoke about deploying the country’s forest in the fight against climate change, noting that he didn’t mean that ownership of the forest would have been transferred.

Financing for women and financial literacy for legislators and the citizenry formed the basis for the discussions when Commonwealth Central Bank Governors met Monday morning at the Central Bank.

Four men and a woman are in police custody while the search continues for a small aircraft registered to Air Services Limited which mysteriously disappeared from the Anna Regina airstrip early Sunday morning.

A lawyer for Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan, who pleaded not guilty to three drug charges in New York and was remanded to prison last month, is in plea bargain negotiations with the prosecution, court documents have said.

The developed countries’ agenda is no more on fighting poverty and alleviating hunger but rather on “economic aggrandizement at the expense of poor people” and developing countries can no longer depend on the “courtesies and handouts” of those partners, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday promised to render financial assistance to the relatives of the 10 victims of the Linden highway accident.

A pair of manatees was on Friday exported to Spain under an agreement that will provide funding for improvements to the aquarium to house the Arapaima exhibits at the Guyana Zoological Park.