Guyana News

The government, with the assistance of international agencies, has spent approximately $5 billion to repair damaged infrastructure and improve drainage and irrigation (D&I) capabilities countrywide since the disastrous flood of December 2004/January2005.

The Guyana Government has shot itself in the foot with a very bad political move that smacks of the old, discredited ‘Burnhamist doctrine’ of the late President Forbes Burnham which had reached into all aspects of governance, including crude interferences and worse, in the functioning of the country’s media.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has established a board of enquiry to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding the jail break at the Mazaruni Prison on Friday January 12.

Officials should stick to procedures in order to avoid the potential for the cultivating of corrupt practices and to project a positive image of the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs).

Over 16,000 public assistance recipients countrywide will soon be able to collect their grants from various post offices, according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security Trevor Thomas.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison an 18-year-old man accused of having carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan remanded to prison a man accused of larceny when he yesterday appeared to answer to the charge at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The body of an employee of the National Communications Network (NCN) was on Thursday night discovered at the back of the building face-down inside a drain.

President Bharrat Jagdeo apologised to the leaders of the local religious community for the disparaging remarks made by two government ministers at the January 11 sitting of parliament, according to the head of the Guyana Council of Churches (GCC).

The Committee for the defence of the Constitution has moved to the High Court against the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and its members over the status of five High Court judges, two of whom have been acting for more than five years in that capacity.

The Jamaica Gleaner daily yesterday in an editorial headlined “President Jagdeo’s shame” accused the Guyana government of a “vulgar and unworthy act of reprisal” in pulling government advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Officials of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security will soon launch an investigation into the recent reports of child marriages.

Amid the furore over VAT, the government yesterday tabled a bill in the National Assembly to enable additions to the list of zero-rated and exempt items by way of order but a bid to have it taken through all of its stages and passed was rebuffed.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Andrew Kissoon revealed that he was shot four times.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has a roster of activities planned to target youths and encourage their involvement in the arts.

The Guyana Local Organising Committee (LOC) has said that at no time did it share any information with the public or with the media stating that Guyana might not take part in the opening ceremony of the ICC CWC 2007 in Jamaica in March.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) says it vehemently condemns what it terms the “unfair, uneven and vindictive act of GINA (the Government Information Agency)”, in withdrawing government advertisements from Stabroek News.

The advice of a Technical Working group on Governance was at the top of a list of priorities for the 18th Caricom Council of Ministers meeting which opened yesterday at the Caricom Headquarters, Liliendaal.

Members of the City Constabulary have recovered three busts that were removed from the Non-Aligned Monument at Company Path Garden, Avenue of the Republic on Thursday.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is to establish a Wide Area Network (WAN) which is expected to boost government’s move to reform its taxation system.