Guyana News

A Werk-en-Rust man is missing after the boat he was in capsized after being hit by another a short distance from the Bartica Stelling on Tuesday night.

The 2007 Guyana Business Outlook Survey has tapped a vein of confidence in the business community as it expressed its highest level of optimism for the economy in five years in the Ram and McRae 13th annual survey.

A fifth prison escapee was yesterday handed over to members of the Joint Services by a boat captain at the Mazaruni Boat Landing.

A vendor who denied robbing a woman of $22,000, but willingly gave her back a part of the money was on Monday ordered to do three weeks community service in the compound of the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Two men who appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer a charge of robbery under arms were granted their pre-trial liberty in the sum of $100,000 by Magistrate Chandra Sohan.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and the France-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters San Frontieres) have condemned the Guyana government’s withdrawal of state advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Cellular operators in Guyana can from February 16 fix rates as low as $7 per minute and as high as $32 per minute, according to their various plans, an order from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) said.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was yesterday morning pulled from a pile of logs on a beach at Parika, East Bank Essequibo after she never returned home the day before.

A US court judge yesterday ruled that drug-indicted businessman Roger Khan must be held without bail and turned down yet another bail application when he appeared in court in New York.

Secondary school students of forms one to three who are members of the Litchfield Library on the West Coast of Berbice recently participated in a ‘spelling bee’ competition sponsored by the library.

In a two-day session which ended on Sunday 350 more local volunteers were trained to provide service assistance for Cricket World Cup in March.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday called on the Guyana government to withdraw the Casino Gambling Bill, declaring that the assertion that Guyana’s nascent tourist industry, aimed at eco-tourists, stands to benefit from casinos is nonsense.

The owners of a rice mill at Number 19 Village Corentyne, Berbice suffered tremendous losses on Monday when the roof collapsed during heavy winds around 11.10 am.

Digicel, which recently acquired Cel*Star/U Mobile, plans to introduce prepaid roaming when it rolls out the full range of its cellular service here and will also offer per second billing.

The Beacon Foundation says numerous entities and countless individuals have contributed to it being able to embark on its 22nd year of continuous social welfare service but more work is still to be done.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues on Wednesday handed over the title to land in Region One in keeping with the government’s survey and demarcation exercise.

With piracy a recurrent problem, the Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday that plans are in place to eliminate the incidence of hijackings, in the long term, by further increasing security arrangements with fishermen and the Ministries of Agricul-ture and Home Affairs and the coast guard of the Guyana Defence Force.

Significant emphasis will be placed this year on revitalizing in excess of 1000 co-operative societies countrywide as the first step toward ensuring that they operate in conformity with the Co-operatives Act, Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has said.

The Region Seven administration has planned a series of exercises to make Bartica more visible and attractive for the influx of visitors expected for the Cricket World Cup (CWC).

An 11-year-old girl is still a patient at the Skeldon Hospital after she was brutally raped last Saturday by a man who has since been placed in police custody.