Month: September 2010

Tobago will soon get its hospital and fire station, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced today.
Persad-Bissessar told of the plans for Tobago at today’s post-Cabinet news
brief at CoCo Reef hotel.

National Security Minister Brigadier John Sandy has vowed to tackle the issue of human trafficking affecting this county.
Sandy made the statement during today’s post-Cabinet news conference in Tobago.
He said legislation will soon be brought to address the issue.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has chastised her Cabinet Ministers for debating the issue of resuming hangings in public.
Persad-Bissessar made the comment during today’s post-Cabinet news
conference held at Coco Reef in Tobago.

   Seventeen year old Tyrone Rowe called COBRA and described by the police as the most wanted man in Guyana today surrenders to the Police accompanied by his close relatives and his girlfriend.

 His girlfriend was detained for questioning.

 Rowe from 268 Independence Boulevard Albouystown was wanted for a number of murders and armed robberies.

   A search party comprising of Police Ranks and relatives recovered the body of Godwin Maxwell around 06:30 h today.

A port mortem examination was performed on the body by Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh who gave the cause of death as asphyxiation due to drowning and blunt trauma to head.

58 year old miner Vincent Williams of Supernaam Essequibo Coast was murdered at around 04:00 h at 14 Miles, Issano.

According to information from Police Headquarters in Georgetown Vincent Williams and another man were consuming alcohol when they became involved in an argument over a female.  He was later chopped and stabbed about the body by the suspect and succumbed to his injuries.

The suspect was apprehended by public spirited persons in the community and handed over to the police.  The weapon used in the incident was also recovered.

  Ninety two students successfully completed their bachelor’s and post graduate degrees overseas in various academic fields through Government scholarships via the Ministry of Public Service.

   Residents of Canal Number Two Polder today are calling for the main access bridge leading to the Mc Gillvray Primary School to be reconstructed.

They claim that the neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) dismantled the bridge that more than 300 children use to get to school about two months ago and promised to rebuild it but to date nothing has happened.

A four-year-old girl has been left orphaned with the death of her parent in a vehicular accident this morning.
Dead are Prakash Soobir and his wife Michelle.
The two were killed when their vehicle crashed into a pole near Ramai Trace in Penal around 1 a.m. today.
The couple was on their way home in their black Toyota pick-up which veered off the roadway and crashed into a utility pole and concrete wall.
 

PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and members of her Cabinet are scheduled to fly to Tobago later today in preparation for a four-day
retreat. The team are scheduled to stay at the Coco Reef Hotel.
The Government workshop is carded to start tomorrow and end on Sunday.
The workshop will include programmes such as Art of Negotiation hosted by Harvard director Dr Daniel Shapiro.
The team will also be guided through dialogue on Government and the Media, Good Governance, the separation of powers between the Executive among other programmes.