Guyana News

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday conferred the Instruments of State Commission and other awards on 23 Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officers.

Three identification cards have been found in Robb Street and were handed over to the management and staff of NP Electronics Inter-national, Lot 45 Robb Street, Lacytown.

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir says a Ministerial Committee on HIV/AIDS was on Tuesday launched to educate employees about the infection and the support programmes available to help them to cope with it in the workplace.

Contractors in Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) were cautioned recently by Regional Executive Officer (REO) Desmond Kissoon that the Regional Tender and Procurement Board will this year debar or blacklist contractors who fail to deliver satisfactory and complete work within agreed deadlines.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) on Monday said that it is currently not investigating a complaint lodged with it by Vreed-en-Hoop headmaster Alvin Johnson as the matter had been referred to the Attorney-General’s Chambers by the Teaching Service Commis-sion (TSC).

More than two months after his wife was shot and killed during a robbery outside their home, a city jeweller is upset that to date the police have not yet taken a statement from him.

Another victim from the two-car East Bank Demerara smash-up that occurred on Sunday, died yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital without regaining consciousness.

An accident at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo has left a woman in hospital nursing head injuries.

A fire of mysterious origin razed a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home yesterday leaving its three occupants, who were not at home at the time homeless and with millions in losses.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday said veteran journalist Cecil Griffith who passed away on Monday was an eminent son of the soil who has left his “imprint in the spheres of journalism”.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds last weekend at Linden commissioned a brand new Wood-Mizer Super LT 40 Hydraulic Mill, acquired by the Region Ten Agriculture and Forest Products Association (RAFPA).

Stakeholders yesterday started to fine-tune a number of initiatives to respond to the challenges and concerns facing the nation’s youth while at the same time creating ways to ensure their participation in the country’s development.

Work is ongoing on the design and layout of the 12-acre Belvedere Industrial Estate in Central Corentyne and this is expected to accelerate development of local businesses.

Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are expected to be able to reduce their financial vulnerability to natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricane through access to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) with financing of catastrophe insurance coverage from the facility to be established in March.

Two men in a red motor car yesterday robbed a recently opened East Coast of Demerara gas station of a quantity of cash.

Four Amerindian communities will shortly receive titles to their lands and a fifth will be granted an extension as soon as the Lands and Surveys Commission has completed mapping the identified areas, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

The trial of an Orealla man charged with raping and sodomising a 12-year-old girl opened at the Berbice Assizes yesterday before Justice Rishi Persaud.

The US-bound passenger who attempted to smuggle 11 protected birds out of Guyana changed his plea from not guilty to guilty yesterday and was fined $70,000 by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Justice Rishi Persaud sentenced a man to 15 years imprisonment yesterday for the ice pick stabbing death of another man during Mashramani celebrations in 2002.

A father and his daughter yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court after a quantity of cannabis was allegedly found at the stall they operate near Salt and Pepper Restaurant on Longden Street.