Guyana News

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh last night unveiled a list of 40 more zero-rated items including dried blackeye peas, cooking salt, all locally produced uncooked meats including salted fish, sanitary napkins and local river and air transport.

Three persons died yesterday as a result of the injuries they sustained after being involved in separate vehicular accidents.

Armed bandits on the prowl at Mc Doom yesterday morning robbed an Eccles money- changer of $3M before hijacking his car and escaping.

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) says the GINA ads cut-off to Stabroek News appears prima facie to be an attempt to stifle free expression and the body along with regional publishers and broadcasters is seeking an early audience with President Bharrat Jagdeo to discuss the matter.

1. Cooking oil 2. Goods when imported by a budget agency named in the schedule to the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 3.

The Guyana Police Force said on Wednesday it retrieved an unexploded grenade that was thrown into an East Bank Demerara yard by unknown persons.

A cell phone technician appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with receiving stolen cell phones and accessories from North Point Imports on King Street earlier this month.

Casinos may be at least six months away and the bill was not sped through parliament to facilitate Buddy’s International Hotel capitalising on Cricket World Cup 2007 but was meant to attract investment by large hotels in the country.

President’s Bharrat Jagdeo’s statement that the decision to withdraw all ministry advertisements from the Stabroek News was a business decision is not credible, David de Caires the editor-in-chief of the newspaper said yesterday.

The government and its creditors have reached an “amicable settlement” on the bauxite bonds issue, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced on Thursday.

Head teachers believe that far too many children are pressured into extra lessons at an early age causing “burn-out” and influencing the high incidence of school dropouts; they want the Education Ministry to take policy action in this respect.

A Werk-en-Rust man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Thursday charged with stealing 34 pounds of chicken from the Brickdam Police Station where he is employed as a handyman.

Guyana would be obtaining half of its petroleum needs or 5,200 barrels per day (bpd) from Venezuela at a concessionary rate under the Petrocaribe agreement from May 1, 2007, Prime Minister Sam Hinds says.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall said the country’s municipalities on Thursday received computers to boost their services.

Stakeholders in the North Rupununi Wetlands project on Tuesday took the first step towards identifying hindrances and coming up with programmes to preserve and sustainably manage the rich ecosystem found there.

A New Amsterdam resident who was shot around 11:40 pm on Thursday has to undergo surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his jaw.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that Friday, February 2 is Budget Day.

The body of a Herstelling resident was found lying on the public road in the village early yesterday with bruises about the upper body.

Two men appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with stealing over $1.8M from CCS on Camp Street last weekend.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said the axing of GINA ads to Stabroek News was purely a business decision made by the agency and that the government would advertise in two of the country’s dailies – the state-owned Chronicle, the privately-owned newspaper, the Kaieteur News, and some newspapers that are published once a week.