News

The Bank of Guyana yesterday said that on Monday it will release a commemorative coin to mark the opening of the cricket stadium at Providence.

Many health services for which government previously supported travel abroad are now available in the private sector and as a result requests for overseas medical treatment have fallen.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sport Club (RHTYSC) recently distributed more than $1M worth of prizes at its 17th annual awards ceremony hosted on Sunday.

Government has granted Goldstone Resources Ltd permission to conduct geological geophysical surveys (PGGS) in areas in Roraima which overlap with Amerindian Villages.

Former army chief and military dictator of Suriname, Desi Bouterse, on Sunday publicly apologized for the first time for the 1982 killing of 15 political opponents, Radio Netherlands (RN) said on Monday.

Even as the police reported last night that they were following some good leads, the three prisoners who staged a daring escape on Thursday afternoon remained at large up to press time.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds in a written response to a question in Parliament on Thursday, raised in the name of PNCR-1G member Judith David-Blair said several areas in Region Seven are sequenced for electrification, but certain requirements must be met.

Government says the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) is unable to provide a ferry for Berbice River residents but the service remains available for private investors.

Government is seeking funding from the UK Department for International Develop-ment (DfID) to expand potable water systems for ten hinterland areas.

Several Albouystown thoroughfares have been given a facelift under the government’s enhancement programme for the city.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has endorsed Vincent Alexander’s nomination to serve as a commissioner on the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM).

African, Caribbean and Paci-fic (ACP) Ministers have agreed that the permanent shortfall of sugar from St Kitts and Nevis, as part of the ACP quota to the EU, would be retained by the Caribbean, the Guyana High Commis-sion in London announced in a press release yesterday.

Some two dozen young media workers were yesterday urged to return to the rudiments of the profession in order to lift standards and help make a contribution to the development of the country.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) said it recently approved the national standard for street-vended food to ensure that foods prepared are safe for consumption.

More than 1000 Region Ten students will soon have access to secondary education when the state-of-the-art Wisburg Secondary School is complete.

Two minibus conductors who were implicated in separate incidents of rape and carnal knowledge appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday and were remanded to prison.

Park-and-Ride and Parking tickets for the Guyana National Stadium at Provi-dence go on sale from Monday at a cost of $1,000 at the Guyana Local Organising Committee office, Middle Street and other places to be announced.

Plans are underway for Travel Span GT Inc. to offer regular scheduled flights to Canada later this year according to the airline’s General Manager Mark De Freitas.

When the essential services of two large para-statal corporations – Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) and Guyana Power and Light (GPL) – were seriously threatened, the Administration moved to deal decisively with the scourge of vandalism.

The five men who were charged for allegedly being involved in the attacks on four homes at Black Bush Polder made another appearance yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.