Guyana News

Dear Editor, Not so long ago the Government of Guyana, at the behest of donor agencies, passed the Fiscal and Financial Management Accountability Act, the aim of which was to foster and sustain accountability and transparency in the use of government funds.

After years of working under poor conditions and numerous letters to the authorities regarding the situation, students, their parents and staff of the L’Aventure Secondary School located on the West Bank Demerara yesterday locked the gates of the school to protest its deplorable state.

History was created on Saturday when members of the Continental Cycle Club unanimously elected a female president for the club.

Representatives of the regional media yesterday met President Bharrat Jagdeo in St Vincent and expressed concern over the potential of the withdrawal of government advertisements from Stabroek News to escalate and also expressed a willingness to work with his government to resolve the dispute.

The Ministry of Education/ National Sports Commission/Guyana Cricket Board, Georgetown Secondary Schools competition is scheduled to be played at four venues today from 10am.

Police yesterday morning discovered the partly decomposed and buried body of a woman in a burnt-out coal pit at the back of the Wisroc Housing Scheme in Linden.

It would be regrettable if Marlon Samuels is excluded from the West Indies squad for next month’s Cricket World Cup on account of the allegation that he leaked team information to an Indian bookmaker during the recently concluded ODI series in India.

Former president Janet Jagan is entitled to her opinion as a private citizen, President Bharrat Jagdeo said in response to her views calling for a reversal of the government’s withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.

In a commentary on Sunday in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, senior journalist Irene Medina warned that “it is always a dangerous precedent when a government decides to use its power to stifle the free voice of the press, as is happening in Guyana today.”

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has expressed profound sadness on the passing of Angela King, a distinguished Jamaican who was a former UN Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women.

Cancer jumped within the last seven years from being the fourth leading cause of death in Guyana to the third with breast cancer leading the number of cases recorded within this period.

Lindeners can reach more people on their mobile phones now that new cellular services provider Digicel has constructed three state-of-the-art base stations in the mining town.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday granted bail to a minor while three persons were remanded to prison after pleading not guilty to charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

In an effort to beat the troublesome 911 telephone system, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company in collaboration with the Police Force will soon launch an emergency short messaging service, which would allow citizens to report crimes via text messages.

An East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman was yesterday robbed of cash by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

Housing and Water Minister Harry Narine Nawbatt yesterday said that Severn Trent Water Incorporated’s (STWI) contract to manage the country’s water sector was terminated because of its failure to achieve specific targets.

The St Rose’s High School is hosting its annual garden party to raise funds to enhance its co-curricular and physical facilities.

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) is urging the public to give blood as a pre-Valentine show of love during their blood drive.

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) says though it continues to render assistance to persons in need, the constant use of scarce resources for disasters which are deliberate or caused by irresponsible behaviour limits its capacity to respond when natural disasters occur.

Joseph Leeham, retired public servant ‘Personally I don’t think that that was a good thing to do.