News

As the Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speaking Competition sponsored by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), Regent Street branch, continued on Thursday Marian Academy and Covent Garden Secondary prevailed over their respective opponents.

A six-member gang of armed bandits early yesterday morning robbed a Canje, Berbice family of some $1.4M along with cash and jewellery.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC), with assistance from a number of private sector organisations will host the first ever Georgetown International Village during the Cricket World Cup Season.

Police are looking for two men who reportedly attempted to douse a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital with acid on Thursday afternoon.

The government is disbursing some $10.8M to support this year’s Mashramani activities in all ten administrative regions, central ministries and departments, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

More charges have been suggested and twenty-one recommendations dealing with security enhancement, prisoners’ welfare and administrative changes are contained in the report of the board of inquiry that was set up to investigate the January 12 Mazaruni Prison jail-break.

After experiencing significant losses and route duplication as a result of a “ruthless price war”, two of the Caribbean’s dominant airlines decided to merge in an effort to provide more efficient service.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) yesterday sent a strong signal to Caribbean governments, urging them to build on their current agricultural momentum to cope with the consequences of globalization on their economies.

Perhaps it’s the Mashramani spirit and season – when some calypsonians utilize the imaginary scenario of our two departed political behemoths, Forbes and Cheddi, discussing current goings-on amongst the local living.

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There is a distinct air of urgency, perhaps even desperation among local forest producers.

Local forest producers are firmly on the side of responsible timber harvesting and are “deeply concerned” at what the Guyana Forest Producers Association (FPA) says are “unfair and unwarranted attacks” on the operations of its members by environmentalists and other groups many of whom take little time to understand their particular role in the industry and in the community as a whole.

The first phase of the new multimillion dollar National Hardware Super Centre situated on the Industrial Site at Ruimveldt is scheduled to be opened by the end of February.

A man and his nephew appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of stealing a woman’s brand new laptop.

International Cricket Council (ICC)/Cricket World Cup (CWC) Cricket Operations Director, Michael Hall, is of the view that the Providence Stadium compares favourably with any of the other venues that will be hosting CWC games beginning next month.

President Bharrat Jagdeo emphasised the importance of the agriculture sector as a viable contributor to regional economies in his address at the 5th meeting of the Core Group supporting the Jagdeo Initiative.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

Another feasibility study on the construction of a highway between Bon Fim in Brazil and Linden and the restart of construction work on the Takutu River Bridge are among the key infrastructure expansion and modernization initiatives expected this year.

West Demerara sugar workers have complained bitterly about the hike in prices of basic food items, including zero-rated items, by businesses in the region and relief in the form of trucks selling essential food items will be sent to the area this weekend, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud assured them.

Neal and Massy, the Trinidadian based conglomerate reported profits for the group of TT$402 million for the year ended 30th September, 2006.