Guyana News

The 38-year-old driver accused of causing the death of a 47-year-old cattle farmer by driving in a dangerous manner on the West Coast Demerara was released on bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Remedial work to a section of the Vreed-en-Hoop Com-munity High School (CHS) has restarted after being stalled for some time and the teachers are calling for the work to be completed quickly so that classes can return to normal.Meanwhile,

Regional Executive Officer of Region Ten Henry Rodney has invited tenders for work to be done on a number of teachers’ buildings in the Berbice River.

Even as an investigative committee is looking into several issues affecting the Wisburg Secondary School, there has been another violent incident there.

Gunmen last Friday afternoon robbed a Belgian diamond dealer outside the New Courtyard bar on Main Street of a bag of diamonds and some $350,000 in cash.

A Fisheries Advisory Committee (FAC) was officially launched on Friday, and this is said to signal government’s commitment to the effective management and sustainable development of the country’s fisheries resources.

Representatives of the Canadian Exploration company ExxonMobil met President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday to finalise offshore drilling arrangements in anticipation of a favourable outcome of the ongoing territorial dispute between Guyana and Suriname.

The Heads of State and Government of the Rio Group recently reaffirmed their support for what they referred to as the “legitimate rights” of the Argentine Republic in the sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands question.

The only son of Vibert Parvatan, Director of Laparkan Trading died in Canada five days after he had left Guyana where he had attended his uncle’s funeral.

Businesses whose Value Added Tax (VAT) returns claim a refund can uplift the refund application forms from the VAT and Excise Tax building at Albert and Charlotte streets.

Investigations are continuing into the suspected murder of a Zeelugt fisherman and his reputed wife is still in custody while detectives are said to have made a breakthrough in the case.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March: I am happy and honoured to send you my warmest wishes on International Women’s Day – my first one as Secretary-General of the United Nations.

No one works more hours than grassroots women. In a survey of women’s time use in 2004-2005, grassroots women in Red Thread followed the workdays of over 100 other grassroots Indo-Guyanese, Afro-Guyanese, Indigenous and mixed race women.

The Women’s Progressive Organisation salutes all Guyanese women on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Purple, green and white are the official international women’s colours. The colours originated from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), in the UK in 1908.

No matter where a girl is born, she should live free of discrimination and violence.

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Though the Spanish were the first to sail and chart the Guiana Coast it is the Dutch who are credited with establishing the first permanent settlements in Guyana.

President of Camptown Football Club, (CFC) Troy Mendonca, yesterday received a donation of $150,000 from Renatta Exeter, a representative of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) company, in aid of the club’s inter-street football tournament.

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Assoc-iation (GAWA) will commence their season with a National Novices Championship on March 25 at Blue Note Club.