Guyana News

Five years ago Maureen Mohabir noticed that her stomach had started to swell for no apparent reason; not long after her feet also started to swell.

Stabroek News has been reliably informed that the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) have joined the government ministries in the withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Two persons who allegedly conned a woman out of $60,000 by telling her that they could secure a genuine passport for her, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The body of a nine-year-old boy was yesterday recovered from the Demerara River where he had apparently drowned on Sunday after he had attempted to disembark the boat he was in by jumping onto another boat, but hit his head and fell into the water instead.

The development of a housing scheme area at Amelia’s Ward, is proving to be a boon to government as residents, expecting to benefit from the predicted economic growth, relocate to the Region Ten community.

The PPP is maintaining its view that the Deputy Speaker erred in preventing the Prime Minister from responding to a motion that called for the stoppage of work on the construction of the Berbice River bridge.

One of the leading figures in British public life, Trevor Phillips last Thursday delivered the Inaugural Coventry Cathedral lecture on ‘The Media and Morality’ to an audience of some 400.

Banks DIH Chairman and Managing Director Clifford Reis said the social and business climate which has prevailed in Guyana over recent times has tested the faith and resolve of every Guyanese and business entity.

Jane Ivy Thompson, who died in an accident last week Sunday, had told her son-in-law to “take it easy” on the road and while he obeyed her, an apparently reckless driver overtook another vehicle on the busy East Bank roadway and slammed into their car.

Trainee rangers and environmentalists from the North West began a one-month training exercise last weekend, as tour guide operators at the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development.

Little is known locally about the specific mental issues people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) face, but depression and isolation are reported to be among them.

The Trinidad Express is advising President Bharrat Jagdeo not to tilt his administration in any direction that is going to attract comparisons with the Forbes Burnham regime during the mid-sixties and mid-eighties.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) commends the government for the steps it has taken to bring immediate and tangible relief to consumers who were severely affected by the impact on the cost of living due to the implementation of Value Added and Excise taxes.

Sharmaine Gift, Mark ‘Super Markey’ Harris and Winston ‘Pecky Dread’ Bradshaw, along with Delroy ‘DMD’ Dash who was a no-show, were the first four contenders to be eliminated from the first round of the Carib Soca Monarch competition on Saturday.

Veteran journalist Cecil Griffith was yesterday laid to rest following tributes by colleagues and friends celebrating his life and legacy at the St George’s Cathedral, as they remembered him as a stickler for professional standards.

The Rose Hall, Canje Ground came alive on Saturday night when 18 singers, backed by the Shakti Strings Orchestra, participated in the semi-finals of the 2007 Mash Soca Chutney Competition.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee is yet to receive the report of a board of enquiry that he had established to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding last month’s jail break at the Mazaruni Prison.

The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) at its inaugural meeting last month, agreed to recruit a director and to urgently establish its secretariat within the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce.

As the investigation into the murder of Mark Ritchie which occurred last week Tuesday at Kuru Kururu on the Linden Highway continues, a suspect took police to a farm cultivated with cannabis in the Kuru Kururu Backlands.

Eighteen-year-old Kevon Washington had his life cut short on Sunday afternoon when he drowned at a mined out lake in Block 22, Wismar, Linden.