News

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) says its certification programme for clinical laboratories will see ten new laboratories certified this year.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a cannon from the compound of the Ministry of Public Works may have been partially solved, though police are continuing with investigations.

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud declared Guyana ready for poultry exports, following plant visits with Jarrette Narine, the Trinidad & Tobago Minister of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources yesterday Minister Narine visited the processing plant of Didco Trading Company at Friendship and its Rising Sun Farm on the Linden Highway, along with Bounty Farm Ltd.

The road works recently undertaken in Region One will allow easy travel to and from communities in order to market farm produce and other activities that can generate income for hinterland areas.

The Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Con-servation and Development is partnering with Tigerwood Guyana Inc.

In yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the headline `First Lady hands over eye surgery microscope for Suddie Hospital’ it was incorrectly reported that 123 children would be going abroad for treatment.

Agricola resident Richard ‘Chucky’ Daniels, wanted in connection with the assassination of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow `Sash’ Sawh, is believed to have been arrested in Suriname last week along with another Guyanese, Acting Police Commissioner, Henry Greene has said.

Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc, a new company with funding from China, plans to invest approximately US$100M dollars over the next three years for value added processing as well as timber harvesting and hopes to have an annual production capacity of 300,00 to 500,000 cubic metres, the company said at a press conference held yesterday.

Two Kwakwani, Berbice women were electrocuted on Wednesday afternoon while in conversation as they held on to opposite sides of a fence.

A mini-bus conductor says that he got the shock of his life when six persons including four boys dressed in school uniform attacked and robbed him.

Chetram Singh, the Herstelling man who police were pursuing in connection with the murder of his wife Eileen Lall on Tuesday, was yesterday apprehended and is now in police custody.

Health officials yesterday said that Carol John, the pregnant North West woman whom relatives believe was buried alive, was in fact dead at the time of her burial and the male foetus that was also discovered in the coffin was expelled from her body as a result of the gas produced by the decaying corpse.

The Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facility will be running off a one-day pre-Valentine horse race meeting on Sunday at Alness Village, Corentyne.

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) will serve off their season with the Bounty Farm Limited Mashramani Handicap tournament from February 13-18 at the Georgetown Club beginning 5pm.

Pele Football Club will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Sunday at Lot 40 Croal Street.

The NSC, in collaboration with the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has indicated in a release that the tournament is expected to attract the cream of the country’s top players including 2006 junior sportswoman Trenace Lowe.

Theodore Henry and Albert La Rose, two of Guyana’s star players in the West Indies Rugby Team (WIRT) for the International Rugby Board (IRB) World Sevens Series tournament that gets underway on Saturday say they think the tournament will be “brutally tough,” but warned the more established sides to beware the underdogs.

We often make jokes about our mythical Region 11, whether it be Queen’s, New York, or as we say for everywhere Guyanese find themselves overseas, “Foreign”.

A new father was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $30,000 after he admitted having 15 grammes of cannabis in his possession when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s court yesterday.

A Nandy Park customs broker and his reputed wife yesterday appeared in court accused of giving more than one kilogramme of cocaine to a Bahamian woman, who was later nabbed at the airport with the drugs hidden in false walls of her suitcase.