Month: September 2010

The People’s National Movement will be holding a public meeting in Belmont tomorrow to address the 2010/2011 budget.
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley is expected to deliver the feature address.
The response to the budget by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
 

Bumper to Bumper for 10 Days

A man identified as Cleveland Bovell of D’ Field Sophia this morning was discovered hanging from a ceiling of a hut located at the back of his Brother’s House.

Family members were very tight lipped about the man’s death and the police barred the media from entering the premises to cover the story.

  Information coming out from the Public relations office within the Guyana Police Force last night stated that there is a 10% decrease in serious crime in the country for this year up to yesterday September 06, 2010, compared to the same period last year, in spite of a number of recent incidents which may have given the perception that there is an upsurge in crime.

In celebration of Amerindian Heritage month, the United States of America through the local embassy in Georgetown donated 50,000 high nutritional meals to be distributed to flood affected hinterland villages.

Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai received the donation which was transported to Guyana via the HSV Swift, a naval ship, which docked Guyana’s shores recently.

Residents of Sister’s Village on the West Bank of Demerara woke up at 4 a.m today to find their homes under water.

Some of the residents trying to hold back tears said they lost almost everything in their homes, their furniture, household appliances, vehicles covered with water, poultry and kitchen garden.

The flooding was as a result of a spring tide and poor drainage and irrigation in the area.

SIR David Simmons was today sworn in as the chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the 1990 attempted coup.
Simmons, Diana Mahabir-Wyatt, Dr Eastlyn Mc Kenzie, Sir Richard Cheltenham and Dr HA Mohammed were sworn in at the Knowsley Building today.
 

The thrust of the first People’ Partnership budget is to Bridge Entrepreneurship and Development, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran has said. He just wrapped up a two-hour plus presentation at the Red House entitled "Facing the issues,Turning the Economy Around".

Pandamonium broke out late this afternoon along the West Bank of Demerara just a few minutes drive from the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Along  Vreed –en-Hoop village water from the Demerara River over flowed and flooded the area. It was reported that cars were unable to traverse the road because the water was about 8 inches above he ground and continues to rise.

The road is higher than the land where thousands of residents live.

A long line of traffic stalled for hours from the Harbour Bridge to the junction that leads to

At about 11:30h today 18 year old Keisha Fernandes of Block ‘Y’ Cummings Lodge, ECD, was abducted by a woman from her work place in Brickdam, Georgetown, and taken to a hotel in Church Street, Georgetown.

Acting promptly on the reports made and information received, the police went to the hotel where they found Keisha Fernandes and the woman. The woman was arrested and will attend court tomorrow to face charges.