Month: August 2010

Prison officers are staging a silent protest outside the office of the Prime Minister in St Clair.
They are calling on the Government to do more to protect officers both on and off duty.
Within the last few months a number of prisons officers have been attacked and some killed in incident police suspect are directly related to their jobs.
Caribbean Trakker is following the protest and will bring an update later.

   Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon said the crafting of new laws, regulations and licenses are nearly finished and they would form part of a cabinet consultation before the public consultations. This would be hallmark, comprehensive reform at the end of which it is anticipated that the telecommunications sector in Guyana, like the other sectors in Caricom and the rest of the world, would be enjoying greater coherence and more parallels.

City Hall Georgetown

Replacing Tin Cans

Worldwide Catastrophe waiting to happen

   Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn today handed over 25 wheel clamps, along with chains and padlocks to the Guyana Police Force, at Ministry of Public Works and Communication, Kingston , in an effort to reduce congestion as a result of illegal parking or failure to conform to road signs. The device consists of a clamp which surrounds a vehicle’s wheel, designed to prevent removal of both itself and the wheel.

Today around 02:00 h six Bandits, two who were armed attacked
Telcoms Solution located at Industrial site on the East Bank of Demerara just outside of the capital city, robbing two security guards of two 12 gauge shot guns and twenty matching cartridges.
The police says the two armed security guards are from a private security service and another attached to the business entity were on duty when they were held up. The guards were assaulted and tied up by the group of men

   Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon today says cabinet gives it’s no objection to the tune of 188 million dollars. The Public works sector was given 88.9 million dollars for the repairs of traffic light and five culverts at region 9. Fifty six million dollars was budgeted for the extension of the Georgetown Magistrates court.

There are two confirmed dengue deaths in Tabaquite today.
These deaths now push the official toll of people who have died of dengue haemorrhagic fever to five.
There are reportdely 600 confirmed cases of dengue in Trinidad and Tobago, according to Chief Medical
Officer, Dr Anton Cumberbatch.

Anton Christopher Goodridge, the main suspect in the beheading of a Diane Williams and her ten-year old son Shaquille appeared before a San Fernando magistrate today.
Goodridge appeared before Senior Magistrate Annette McKenzie charged with the killing of Williams and Shaquille at Ste Madeline on a day unknown between July 17 and July 21, 2010.
The dismembered bodies of mother and son, minus the heads and Williams’ arms, were found scattered at the Forres Park Landfill near Claxton Bay on July 21, 2010.