Guyana News

Dear Editor, I have been following with close interest what has been developing in the press between the Government News Agency and Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, On a recent cruise, we took organised bus tours around a few Caribbean islands, including Barbados, Trinidad and Grenada.

Dear Editor, I refer to an Article in KN dated 25th.

Dear Editor, It angered me to read about the death of the motorcyclist on the Harbour Bridge, and the injury to his pregnant girlfriend.

“I am no gangsta rapper,” singer Gialiani exclaims with a slightly baffled looked on his face.

Authorities are continuing a probe into the electrocution of two Kwakwani, Berbice women on Wednesday afternoon while in conversation as they held on to opposite sides of a fence.

The Herstelling fisherman who allegedly stabbed his reputed wife to death on Tuesday after she refused to return to the home they shared, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with murder.

The withdrawal of government advertising from the Stabroek News is “an issue of manipulation which goes to the root of freedom of the press,” the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) said yesterday, adding that the government explanations thus far appear “spurious”.

Citing a clause relating to performance, the board of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) has decided to terminate the five-year UK-funded contract with Severn Trent for the management of the water sector which was to come to an end in December this year.

A Guyanese-styled cabaret of song, dance and theatre will be held next Saturday at Sky 7, Sea Breeze Hotel at Pere Street, Kitty.

If you crave the taste of Ackee and salt fish then you no longer have to travel to Jamaica or elsewhere for that country’s popular dish.

A major exhibition of his work has been on in London for two months at the October Gallery, yet in his homeland, Guyana, the work of world renowned artist Aubrey Williams has been vandalized.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said the road at the junction of Mandela Avenue and Go-Slow Avenue will be closed to facilitate the installation of sewer pipes.

As the Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speaking Competition sponsored by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), Regent Street branch, continued on Thursday Marian Academy and Covent Garden Secondary prevailed over their respective opponents.

A six-member gang of armed bandits early yesterday morning robbed a Canje, Berbice family of some $1.4M along with cash and jewellery.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC), with assistance from a number of private sector organisations will host the first ever Georgetown International Village during the Cricket World Cup Season.

Police are looking for two men who reportedly attempted to douse a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital with acid on Thursday afternoon.

The government is disbursing some $10.8M to support this year’s Mashramani activities in all ten administrative regions, central ministries and departments, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

More charges have been suggested and twenty-one recommendations dealing with security enhancement, prisoners’ welfare and administrative changes are contained in the report of the board of inquiry that was set up to investigate the January 12 Mazaruni Prison jail-break.

The Office of the President says the cut-off of ads to Stabroek News is not a press freedom issue but simply a shift of patronage to another private newspaper because of its higher circulation and the limited financial resources available to the state.