Guyana News

I find it blisteringly hot at present and almost too hot to finish this piece of writing, but thankfully the discipline of it prevents me dozing off.

Last week’s column examined the first two causes of poverty according to the PRSP in relation to the forestry sector, namely (i) poor economic policies, and (ii) poor governance.

Roy Dookun and I were honoured the other night to receive awards from the Guyana Olympic Association for our contribution in the past to the sport of lawn tennis.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said the well which supplies Mocha is functioning as normal and there would be no disruptions.

In the obituary for Cecil Griffith which appeared on page 11A in last week’s Sunday Stabroek, we gave his date of birth as October 29, 1928.

Guyana and Brazil are working towards having a single motor vehicle insurance policy that could be used not only between the two countries but in all Mercosur (Southern Common Market) states in keeping with Brazil’s membership of Mercosur.

Workers of the now disbanded BWIA have all been paid a severance package plus gratuity and about 60% of them have been re-employed.

Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela Dr Odeen Ishmael has dismissed as “totally untrue” an allegation in the Venezuelan media he had been summoned by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry to a meeting following the publication of an interview and an opinion piece, or that he had been involved in clandestine negotiations with the Venezuelan Foreign Minister on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

A Non Pareil man was reported to have been shot several times during a robbery in the East Coast Demerara village yesterday.

More than three months after President Bharrat Jagdeo met with representatives of opposition parliamentary political parties to discuss the furthering of a framework for enhanced political cooperation, the representatives are disappointed that there has been no further discussion.

A single parent and her two children who had made the streets their home may soon have a better future following the intervention of the Minister of Human Services and the efforts of citizens.

A Lethem businesswoman was on Friday evening robbed of money and over $300,000 in jewellery by three armed men who are believed to be Brazilians and a photograph left behind by one of the men has been positively identified by Brazilian police as that of a known criminal who is wanted for a series of murders and armed robberies in that country.

Two student gangs connected to the Wisburg Secondary School, Linden, are engaging in acts of violence which are causing teachers and parents considerable anxiety.

Mrs Janet Jagan, the matriarch of the People’s Pro-gressive Party, has called for a reversal of the decision to withdraw government advertisements from the Stabroek News.

BioCapital, Brazil’s second largest producer of bio-diesel, is currently awaiting word from the Guyana government on a proposal to invest US$300 million to acquire lands and establish a distillery for the production of ethanol for local consumption and for export.

A 44-year-old man was on Thursday released on $30,000 bail on a break and enter charge after telling the court that he was beaten unconscious by persons who accused him of stealing over $362,000 worth of articles from a motorcycle store.

Little is known in Guyana about microbicides or the research that has been ongoing with them.

A 27-year-old West Bank hire car driver who reportedly caused the death of a seven-year-old girl by driving in a dangerous manner was released on bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 17-year-old boy accused of using forged money to purchase shoes and then escaping from the police station lockups was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

From the Bookmakers’ standpoint – the WICB will, I trust, forgive the utterance of the word Bookmaker at this sensitive time – the West Indies are probably the least fancied of the major cricketing nations to lift the 2007 Cricket World Cup.