News

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) commenced their Toucan Industries Inc. Mashramani Junior Squash tournament at the Georgetown Club on Tuesday night with some interesting matches.

Former world champion Gairy “Superman” St. Clair is set to take on a Brazilian on the T.J.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday urged hundreds of secondary school students to show discipline as they compete for supremacy in the 2007 inter-secondary schools FUTSAL (football) tournament.

There will be top notch cellular phone connection for those who are connected with the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) company in time for Cricket World Cup as the company’s GSM facility at the Providence Stadium will be up and ready by March 15, according to GT&T’s Chief Executive Officer Joe Singh.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has announced traffic diversions along some roadways to facilitate dignitaries attending the Rio Summit.

By noon yesterday, hotels had confirmed bookings for over 150 guests attending the 19th Summit of the Rio Group today and tomorrow.

Scholarships for Guyanese students to study medicine, the dredging of the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Pomeroon rivers and offers of additional fuel supplies are among areas of cooperation being pursued with Venezuela.

A gun was drawn on a student at the North Georgetown Secondary School, leading outraged parents to pull their children from classes until security is improved.

Foreign ministers and representatives of the 20-member Rio Group were last evening in discussions on the Draft Declaration of Turkeyen and the group’s statement on human and social issues ahead of the substantive 19th Summit.

Over $200 million went up in flames at midnight on Wednesday when two buildings which housed Dharry’s Furniture Store and Echo and another store at Rose Hall, Corentyne were gutted.

Charging that drug trafficking and money laundering were pumping billions into the local construction sector, the US government yesterday again blasted the government here for not succeeding against major traffickers and warned that in some cases drugs were being traded for weapons.

Dear Editor, The year 2007 marks the bi-centennial of the abolition of the trade of African captives.

Dear Editor, I congratulate Stella on her column in Kaieteur News, Sunday February 25 in which she made four basic points about the forced removal of the vendors from outside Stabroek Market.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says that nine persons were arrested in the Diamond Housing Scheme following a series of raids after residents’ frequent complaints of voltage fluctuations.

The British High Commission has introduced a Biometrics Programme as a prerequisite to processing visa applications which are now to be submitted online.

(BBC) Barbados has topped the Latin American and Caribbean region in a tourism survey of 124 nations.

Representatives from the three major religions have joined forces with two non-governmental organisations and a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded group to promote abstinence as a means of staving off HIV/AIDS.

The Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) at Turkeyen is ready for its first international conference – the 19th Meeting of the Rio Group – scheduled for tomorrow and from which the Turkeyen Declaration is expected to flow.

The PNCR-1G and the AFC have been advised to meet to resolve a row over the opposition nominees for a parliamentary delegation that will undertake a study of the Nebraska Legislature in the US.

Police from the Narcotics Branch destroyed two marijuana camps that were found this week, while roadblock interceptions also yielded finds.