News

A lone bandit carrying a handgun shot a female pump attendant at a Texaco service station on Saturday night during a robbery.

A Queens family is desperately searching for a deaf relative who vanished hours after arriving in New York.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) Inc. is advising consumers that brown sugar is zero-rated and as such does not attract Value Added Tax (VAT).

Three men armed with handguns on Saturday robbed the Enmore Post Office of $748,960 before escaping.

Members of the medical fraternity are preparing to send a position paper on the controversial Health Licensing Facilities Bill of 2006 to the select committee to which the bill was sent last week.

A man who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison in December last year by jumping the fence continues to evade capture by law enforcement authorities more than a month later.

The Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) has expressed disappointment that President Bharrat Jagdeo has not taken into account the views of the religious community in terms of withdrawing the Gambling Prevention (Amendment) Bill for wider consultation.

Officials should stick to procedures in order to avoid the potential for the cultivating of corrupt practices and to project a positive image of the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs).

Over 16,000 public assistance recipients countrywide will soon be able to collect their grants from various post offices, according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security Trevor Thomas.

Former Region Three Chairman Esau Dookie has taken up a position to head the Saraswat Primary School after receiving a letter of introduction from the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), despite opposition from the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU).

Chairman and Managing Director of Banks DIH Limited Clifford Reis said that the Value Added Tax (VAT) would cost the company between $200 to $300M per year and that the “jury is still out” on the new tax regime’s revenue neutrality.

Relatives of a 21-year-old man who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital six days after jumping into the Lamaha Canal popularly called the `Blacka’ believe that negligence by the hospital’s staff had a big part to play in his demise.

The Iwokrama International Centre and Conservation International have scheduled a public viewing of An Inconvenient Truth on Thursday, January 25, in the Rupununi Room, Hotel Tower at 6 pm.

The government, with the assistance of international agencies, has spent approximately $5 billion to repair damaged infrastructure and improve drainage and irrigation (D&I) capabilities countrywide since the disastrous flood of December 2004/January2005.

The Guyana Government has shot itself in the foot with a very bad political move that smacks of the old, discredited ‘Burnhamist doctrine’ of the late President Forbes Burnham which had reached into all aspects of governance, including crude interferences and worse, in the functioning of the country’s media.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has established a board of enquiry to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding the jail break at the Mazaruni Prison on Friday January 12.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison an 18-year-old man accused of having carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan remanded to prison a man accused of larceny when he yesterday appeared to answer to the charge at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Jamaica Gleaner daily yesterday in an editorial headlined “President Jagdeo’s shame” accused the Guyana government of a “vulgar and unworthy act of reprisal” in pulling government advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Officials of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security will soon launch an investigation into the recent reports of child marriages.