Guyana News

A Tuschen cane-cutter was on Monday struck down by a sand truck and later died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

A man accused of shipping 13 kilos of cocaine stashed in corilla on a Caribbean Air-lines flight bound for Canada, which was discovered in Trinidad, was yesterday refused bail at the George-town Magistrate’s Court.

Armed bandits operating with a speedboat robbed the Esso service station main terminal at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Tuesday afternoon.

Some 80% of the 2,100 businesses registered for VAT filed their returns on time and 32.8% of those filing returns have claimed refunds; the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) plans to examine these.

A quick response by the Guyana Fire Service yesterday averted what could have been a major fire at the upper end of Robb Street, a few doors away from Nigel’s Supermarket.

Calabash Gift Shoppe, the official licensee of Cricket World Cup souvenirs and memorabilia, moved to the High Court last week against two local stores allegedly caught selling counterfeit CWC items and was granted an injunction.

A 30-year-old bartender appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with attempted murder and was remanded to prison.

Pele Football Club took the `lion’s share’ of prizes in the just-concluded Mayor’s Cup knockout football tournament coordinated by Lennox Arthur.

Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally is understandably upbeat about the 24th Summit of the Rio Group which opens in Georgetown today.

A remand prisoner who allegedly escap-ed from the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court lockups last week was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison a man and his girlfriend after they pleaded not guilty to robbing a woman of a large sum of money and other items.

Dear Editor, With portions of the proceedings in the National Assembly being televised, members of the public are now afforded the opportunity to observe and evaluate the performance of their parliamentary representatives.

Dear Editor, Our Community – Kwakwani is still trying to regain its composure after the terrible tragedy that claimed the lives of two women on February 7th 2007, one an elderly great grandmother who was caring for her blind husband and the other a single parent working to maintain her three children.

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate two entrepreneurial Guyanese from New York whose initiative and unity in working together has brought about what could be described as an outstanding collaboration in hosting cricket fans at an international calendar of events during Cricket World Cup in Georgetown, in March, and April.

La Ventura Secondary school held on to beat St John’s Community High school by 16 runs in an exciting encounter at the Versailles ground, West Demerara, yesterday.

East Bank romped to a comfortable 58-run victory over East Coast in the Diamond Fire and General Insurance inter-association limited overs cricket competition at the Lusignan Community Centre ground yesterday.

Recently there have been conflicting reports about the factors responsible for Guyana’s poor performance in the just concluded regional four-day and one-day tournaments.

The Caribbean is bustling with action, one week before the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 bowls off with its warm-up.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd yesterday joined the growing group of billion-dollar developers with the turning of the sod for its $1.3 billion bank at Camp and Robb streets.

Dear Editor, It is said that seeing is believing but in this case after witnessing many trials in my twenty seven years of watching cricket at all levels in this cricket loving nation of ours, I am again shocked and am now convinced that the reason for the decline in our cricket is our selectors at our under 19 and under 15 levels, especially in Georgetown.