News

Ten fishermen from the Corentyne area yesterday positively identified one man who they said has in the past been attacking them at sea.

The Neal and Massy Group of Companies will host two annual Needy Children’s Christmas parties to benefit children from the East Bank Demerara area.

Niko’s Jewellery establishment at 133 Church Street, Georgetown now has a permit to use the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) standards mark on its gold articles.

The Bureau of Statistics is still to supply the Urban (Georgetown) Consumer Price Index (CPI) for a basket of goods for the months of August, September, October and November even as 2007 comes to an end.

The Guyana Police Force Bands and the Joint Services Choir will be hosting a carol tour for the Christmas season at a number of venues countrywide.

Businesses are being asked to provide data that will better inform investment policies since the economy has changed over the decade and a half when the last economic survey was done.

Police are calling on members of the public for their assistance in identifying a man who was killed in an accident on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.

An explosive shoot-out on Saturday in the Pomeroon which resulted in the death of a Venezuelan man and the arrest of another after they kidnapped a mother and a child is believed to be linked to drugs, a statement from the Guyana Police Force last evening said.

A 39-year-old Guyanese woman was found bludgeoned to death in her New York, Queens home early Friday morning and her estranged husband is the main suspect and is now in police custody, a New York Daily News report has said.

Seven engines, fishing seines and drums of gasoline belonging to Guyanese fishermen from the Number 66 Fish Complex were recovered in Suriname last Friday and several men were also taken into custody.

Social work graduates of the University of Guyana have been called upon to give back to the country and rally efforts on pressing social issues.

The US National Transport and Safety Board (NTSB) has completed its strip assessment of engines and other parts of the Air Services Limited (ASL) aircraft which claimed the lives of three persons when it crashed near Kopinang last year.

Caricom leaders must confront their regional counterparts on human rights violations such as the withdrawal by the Guyana Government of advertisements from Stabroek News, the newspaper’s Editor Anand Persaud told a press freedom seminar in Jamaica on Thursday.

The overall balance of payments for the first half of 2007 reflected a deficit of US$8.6M or $1.7B, from a surplus of US$17M or $3.4B for the corresponding period of 2006, said the Half Year Report from the Finance Ministry.

A Herstelling resident is fighting for her life in the Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal Corporation after reportedly setting herself afire following a dispute with her husband.

Teachers and students at a Mahaicony Creek school were left without tap water after cows damaged the pipeline and the headmaster said that is one of many issues at the school that needs to be addressed.

Ten Guyanese recently completed training in Geneva, Switzerland on strengthening the implementation of recommendations made to Guyana by UN human rights bodies and a plan of action has been drawn up.

Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy is calling on members of the public to help the Blood Bank to reach its 6,000 units of blood target for this year.

Suspected arson at Number Nine Village, West Coast Berbice resulted in major losses when a two-flat, three-bedroom house belonging to rice farmers was completely destroyed around 10:15 pm on Saturday.

Two hours after leaving to go to church, the body of an epileptic man was fished out of a drain at Patentia, West Bank Demerara that he had apparently fallen into.