Guyana News

Dear Editor, What are we waiting for? We have the hotel; beautiful Buddy International Hotel.

Dear Editor, It’s a shame to see politically fostered racism still affecting the Guyanese people.

Dear Editor, We of the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) endorse the appointment of acting Commissioner Greene to the substantive post of Commissioner of Police.

Dear Editor, I read with interest a letter dealing with Internet Services by Mr Leon Jameson Suseran, who is advocating that the internet services should be zero rated with respect to the recently introduced VAT.

Dear Editor, Inasmuch as I would like to see our city with some semblance to what it once looked like many moons ago, I am in sympathy with the vendors who have been asked to move from around the Stabroek market square permanently.

Three bandits, armed with a long gun and a cutlass, attacked a family at Belvedere Reef on the Corentyne around 3.15 am yesterday and made of with about $500,000 in cash and antique gold jewellery.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) yesterday launched the Diamond Fire and General Insurance under-19 Inter-Association cricket competition at the insurance company’s head office in Kingston yesterday.

An East Ruimveldt man was on Sunday night shot dead by a policeman who is also the driver of Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee during an altercation at Jerries Snackette on Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty.

One man has died and four others were nursing injuries at the Linden Hospital Complex last night, following an accident about four miles from Mabura.

Guyanese businessman Shaheed Khan, yesterday pleaded not guilty to 18 additional charges brought against him by the US Government when he appeared before Justice Dora Irizarry in a New York court.

Dear Editor, Now that Buddy’s hotel is open for business, I hope both the proprietor and the government come clean with the public at the opportune time on how much money was hauled in by the hotel and casino operations so that the public can know if government would be getting back its multimillion-dollar ad-vance, as President Bharrat Jagdeo boasted would happen.

Dear Editor, The observances of Hindu Festivals in India are similar to those in Guyana and NY with some differences.

Residents of the northern side of Good Faith Recess Dam, Mahaicony say the dam is in a terrible condition with huge potholes and needs to be fixed urgently.

In the wake of recent criticism by one of its Region Four councillors, the Alliance For Change (AFC) says that its leadership is only interim until it holds its first national conference.

Five suspects are in custody in connection with a $16 million fraud detected at Clico Life Insurance, police said yesterday.

Secretary-General of the International Criminal Organisation (Interpol), Ronald Noble says he is pleased with Guyana’s security arrangements for the hosting of Cricket World Cup (CWC).

Four persons have won the right to represent Guyana in Trinidad next month at the finals of the Qaseeda competition.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has made a call for the city enhancement exercise to be recognized as a national effort to be supported by all rather than “the notion being peddled by some that the move

The recent delivery of 250 breeding sets of supermale tilapias from the United Kingdom is expected to provide the boost the National Aquaculture Association of Guyana (NAAG) needs to make aquaculture the leading economic sector in Guyana by 2015.

The Guyana leg of the US$2 million training programme for security personnel manning the world cup stadiums in the nine host countries commenced yesterday, with Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene lauding the initiative of the Cricket World Cup committee for organizing such an event.