Guyana News

The Public Utilities Commis-sion (PUC) has written to both Digicel Guyana and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited reminding the two companies of the per-second billing that was ordered.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited said the senior secondary schools have emerged winners in the preliminary sessions of its Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speech competition.

Samples from a shipment of soap imported from China were sent overseas for testing after an injunction on February 6th, 2007 barred the importer from distributing 1,266 cartons of a soap bearing the name Lux, Stabroek News has learnt.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) was historically a working class movement dating back to the Civil Service Association, displaying a national brand of militancy that benefited the nation and the labour movement throughout the Caribbean.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed sympathy to the family of the late Minister of Agriculture and Guyana High Commissioner to Canada Gavin B Kennard.

Several Amerindian communities which received government grants have shown improvement in their economic activities and this year more communities will be benefiting, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Monday.

A man, who said he was set on fire after methylated spirits was poured on his body, is accusing the police of dragging their feet on the issue as it involves one of their members and two members of the Guyana Defence Force.

Five days after a Bartica gold miner was brutally chopped to death by another man during a row over water, police in the area are yet to arrest the killer.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the schoolyard ecology (SYE) workshop recently hosted for 50 Corentyne Coast environmental club members aims to equip learners with the skills needed to become “schoolyard scientists”.

Dubraj Latchman, 58, of Good Faith, Mahaicony who was robbed by bandits around 4 pm on Monday told Stabroek News yesterday that this is the first time in 30 years that a robbery had occurred in broad daylight in the area.

Farmers in the Mahaica Creek area are enjoying the current dry weather with occasional showers although it may require topping up the water conservancy, but some are a bit disturbed by pests and plant diseases which are affecting their crops.

Various efforts by the Administration to project Guyana as a tourist destination are paying off and for 2007 many aspects are being pushed to propel the sector even as Guyana prepares to host several major international events.

There was a strange feeling of love in the air last week.

Coordinator of the just-concluded 2007 Bounty Farm Ltd Mash Handicap Tournament Robert Fernandes has hailed the event a success.

The two finalists in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football tournament will be decided this evening at the GFC ground where an explosive double header is carded.

Jamal Duff and Chelsea Edghill secured the boys and girls’ under-11 titles respectively when the 2007 annual National Sport Commission (NSC) Mashramani table tennis tournament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.

Last week’s assault by a cutlass-wielding criminal who injured a student while angrily pursuing a teacher at the St Gabriel’s Primary School in Oronoque Street, Queenstown, has highlighted the threat to safety in this country’s schools.

Bandits armed with guns and cutlasses terrorized two families at Williamsburg Squatting Area, Corentyne on Monday at 9 pm and at 1:45 yesterday morning and made off with almost $3M in jewellery and cash.

Four youths who allegedly broke and entered a video game store and carted off close to $1M worth of items appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on Monday.

Dear Editor, I welcome the opportunity to continue the dialogue that Mr.