News

Three armed bandits were last night shot dead, but not before they wounded a policeman during a blazing gun battle at a house, the bandits had invaded in Section ‘C’ Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara.

A 20-year-old tractor operator of Black Bush Polder who narrowly escaped being executed when gunmen opened fire on him at around 8 pm on Thursday, is nursing pellet wounds at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Guyana successfully presented its case for compensation for standing rainforests to the just-concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kampala, Uganda.

Five persons living with HIV were awarded house lots from the Ministry of Housing and Water yesterday through a lottery that comes with the bonus of a home.

University of Guyana Tain Campus Director Dr Parsram Thakur has accused the university’s deans of “gross hypocrisy”.

As Guyana joins the rest of the world in celebrating World AIDS Day 2007, the National AIDS Committee (NAC) has welcomed the move by government to reform the Sexual Offences Act.

“Guyana has a genuine multi-sector approach to the fight against HIV,” Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said adding that he is confident that the battle against the disease can be won.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV (UNAIDS) has reiterated that leadership is essential for an effective response to HIV.

Security units in Suriname have arrested and detained several alleged assassins, a top government official has disclosed.

Digicel has launched a new free-of-charge service to connect customers across 16 of its Caribbean markets to local HIV resources via text messaging.

The advisory board of the USAID/GHRAP public/private sector partnership on HIV and AIDS is currently being re-organised to widen its scope in tackling the infection at work places.

Gun-toting bandits struck again yesterday robbing a man of $2 million and firing two shots before escaping.

The sixth edition of Explore Guyana, the official magazine of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana, was launched Thursday evening during a simple ceremony.

A 2.7 million euros ($751.4 million) five-year project to curb illegal chainsaw milling, reduce conflicts and promote sustainable forest practices in Ghana and Guyana was launched yesterday at the Cazabon Room, Hotel Tower.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s suggestion that an online university to provide tertiary education throughout the Commonwealth should be established is to be discussed at the upcoming Commonwealth Ministers of Education meeting scheduled for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Guyana might not have the exposure, expertise and finance, but it has a special type of tourism that can reap many benefits, Minister of Tourism Manniram Prashad said yesterday.

Government revenue from Value Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax (ET) stands at $17.1 billion for the first six months of this year, which is 68.95% of the projected $24.8 billion collection for 2007.

Powerful tremors from a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea near Martinique were felt across Guyana yesterday afternoon, and had scores of people rushing out of shaking buildings in panic.

Guyanese should expect “a series of blackouts for the Christmas season,” owing to deteriorating finances at the power company, escalating prices in fuel and the power company’s failure to bring this to the attention of the government, the President said yesterday.

Officers from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday made their second cocaine bust in five days, nabbing an Italian woman who was attempting to leave the country with some ten pounds of the drug concealed among the clothing in her suitcase.