Guyana News

The Guyana under-15 cricket team preparing for the upcoming regional under-15 tournament scheduled for Trinidad will be involved in a social skills seminar today at the UNESCO boardroom at the corner of Robb and Oronoque streets.

Five games are scheduled this week-end in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s under-19 limited-overs cricket competition.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno have signed agreements worth US$52M: US$27 million for the Competitiveness Programme and US$25M for the Justice Sector Modernization Programme.

Police in New York have arrested and charged a Guyanese man with the murder of Guyanese Natasha Ramen who had her throat slit last week minutes after leaving her Queens apartment.

Some 350 official Cricket World Cup (CWC) volunteers are ready for the six CWC matches being held at the Providence Stadium from Wednesday, according to Sabrina Panday, the volunteer coordinator at the Local Organizing Committee (LOC).

Traffic Chief Roland Alleyne says the department’s campaign against loud music in public transportation is proving effective with more adhering to the regulations, the Government Information Agency (GINA) has reported.

Ronald Daniels, the prison escapee who allegedly shot and killed an Essequibo logger over a month ago has changed his appearance, which might be making it more difficult for police to track him down.

The largest observer group at the 2006 general elections has not endorsed the allocation of seats for the National Assembly and RDCs, though it says the polls were free and fair and that the declared results were mostly representative of the will of the people.

Today is the final day to file returns for Value Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax (ET) for February and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) said in a press release that it was concerned over the “slow rate of returns.”

Guyanese are reminded that there is an urgent need to conserve on water, in view of the low level of the Lamaha Canal owing to the prolonged dry season, as the world marks World Water Day today.

Work on the surfacing of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has not yet begun as a suitable “binder” has not yet been found.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) recorded a 51% increase in profit after tax for 2006, which was $506 million, compared to $334.2 million in 2005.

It seems as if the 2008 Presidential race has the face of a changing America and there is history in the making.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh’s announced plan to ban all cellular phones in schools across the country has raised the concerns of some parents and some students are also unsettled.

A report on the services sector released on Monday, revealed that computer-related and environmental services have high export potential, while communication, road transportation and tourism-related services are best reserved for domestic supply.

Drug indicted businessman Peter Morgan was further remanded yesterday, when he made another appearance in a Trinidad Magistrate’s court.

The six former Republic Bank employees who were dismissed on Tuesday, following the disappearance of $8 million from an ATM even though no evidence implicated them, feel that their human rights have been violated.

The Chinese restaurateur who was shot on Tuesday night during a foiled robbery attempt succumbed yesterday afternoon in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday granted bail in the sum of $450,000 to a mother of five, the fifth person to appear in court to answer charges in connection with the Clico insurance fraud.

A man who admitted to robbing another man and then escaping from the police because he wanted to go to Mashramani was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.