Guyana News

The city’s departments which had their power cut off recently in a row over money had their electricity restored yesterday following fruitful discussions between the Mayor and City Council and the power company.

The Ministry of Health is placing heightened focus on mental health, building a strong surveillance system for infectious diseases and raising life expectancy among other things as part of its work plan for 2007.

The ten-year-old boy who was hit by a car a stone’s throw away from the East La Penitence Police Station and his home on Christmas Day, succumbed yesterday to the massive head injuries he sustained.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security plans to provide counselling to the 13-year-old mother whose five-day-old baby was taken by a woman who allegedly sent her to buy clothes for the child.

The Freedom of Information legislation that aims to allow public access to government bodies has not yet been tabled in the National Assembly.

The General Manager of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel has “no comment” to make on President Bharrat Jagdeo’s remarks that the rooms at the international hotel were “atrocious.”

The proposal from Govern-ment to introduce casino gambling, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon is not a done deal and all stakeholders would be given a chance to press their case.

Accumulation of water on the southern carriageway of the Rupert Craig Highway has been blamed on the garbage dumped on the seawall by persons who congregate there on Sunday evenings.

A Corentyne resident, who took his family to the Tom and Jerry Play Centre at the Esplanade Park in New Amsterdam last Tuesday, has come forward to recount their “scary experience” with the rollercoaster ride and to urge the organisers to put proper safety measures in place.

Eighteen fishermen from the Corentyne and East Coast Demerara were terrorized and robbed in four separate boats by pirates near the Corentyne River on Thursday.

The Genito Urinary Medicine Clinic at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) said it has nearly completed the process of computerising patients’ data.

A young mother who was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she suffered burns about her body on Christmas morning, succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday.

Figures reported by the Ministry of Agriculture on the rice sector revealed an increase in output and export earnings for 2006 over the previous year while sugar also showed in-creased production but was below the revised target of 279,000 metric tonnes.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton further remanded into police custody, Cyril Bovell, the father of now dead wanted man Neil Bovell when he made his first appearance before her at the Wales Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The trial of Swiss House Cambio boss Farouk Razac and his wife Carolan Lynch, who were charged with allegedly having a gun and ammunition at their home is set for March 5.

Four days after the 16% Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced a range of questionable practices continued amid widespread uncertainty and frustration among consumers and the head of the Georgetown Chamber acknowledged that there was confusion.

The National Centre for Education Resource Deve-lopment (NCERD) says that the final examination for the National Grade Six Assess-ment is set for April.

Health professionals in Guyana will soon be bound by law to operate under a set of guidelines following government’s endorsement of a code of ethics governing their operations.

Government is to pump more than $29 million into the local government and regional development community service enhancement project to convert three regions to towns.

First Lady Varshnie Jagdeo took Christmas cheer to children during the holidays.