Guyana News

The Junior Calypso Monarch Competition got underway on Saturday at the St Ignatius Sport Club Ground as part of Region Nine’s roster of events for this year’s Mashramani celebrations.

Two Guyanese, a 40-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy are being held by the Canada Border Services Agency in New Brunswick after they were caught on Monday last attempting to enter the US illegally.

Wholesale vendors operating behind Stabroek Market staged a protest yesterday which culminated at Freedom House over what they claimed was the city constabulary’s unfair decision to remove them an hour before the arranged time.

The Ministry of Education will be moving to recruit retired teachers as part of a wider effort to enhance the delivery of education countrywide.

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is calling for the withdrawal of the Teaching Services Commission (TSC) appointment of former Region Three Chairman Esau Dookie to head Saraswat Primary School.

Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela, Dr Odeen Ishmael has found hope in the statement by Chairman of Venezuela’s Communist Party Jeronimo Carerra that the government of President Hugo Chavez could eliminate, once and for all, Venezuela’s “absurd claim” to five-eighths of Guyana’s territory.

An international audit agency has found Barama Company Ltd (BCL) and its auditor SGS-Qualifor deficient at varying levels following an audit late last year of BCL’s forest operations which led to a three-month suspension of BCL’s certification.

The Government Information Agency GINA) in a release yesterday decried what it called Stabroek News’s “lobbying efforts” directed at a number of organizations and agencies in an attempt to “garner sympathetic ears” over government’s decision to withdraw ministry advertisements from the newspaper.

The United Nations has reaffirmed its commitment to helping the Caribbean region build capacity to combat transnational crime.

Bosai Minerals Group Company Ltd has signalled its intention to invest US$1 billion in an alumina refinery and aluminium smelter, once the government approves the US$46M deal, which will give it a 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI).

The Venezulean authorities are yet to submit a report on the shooting to death of Guyanese Parsaram Persaud allegedly by members of the Venezulean army at Eteringbang on October 6.

A businessman who took four engines from another man by pretending that he had the money to pay for them, made an appearance yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 53-year-old minibus driver appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving and was released on $100,000 bail by Magistrate Fazil Azeez.

A 24-year-old man accused of willingly accepting a stolen car appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Two men who were arrested at Kurupung Landing, Mazaruni after police allegedly found a quantity of cocaine and ganja in a shop they were in, on Thursday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and were remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John on Thursday sentenced a man to six months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to larceny when he appeared before her at the Weldaad Magistrate’s Court.

A 50-year-old housewife accused of threatening behaviour towards two other women appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was released on bail.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Thursday remanded to prison a man who was found with a quantity of cocaine and cannabis.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John granted bail to two men who were charged in separate incidents with indecent assault and indecent exposure when they on Thursday appeared at the Weldaad Magistrate’s Court.

Launching a $1.6B credit facility, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday said rice producers should not squander the funds loaned to them as happened in the past or use the credit facility to re-finance outstanding debts.