Month: November 2010

About 45 Essequibo rice farmers on Wednesday received 90% payment for paddy exports to Venezuela. Two cheques amounting to over $600,000 US Dollars were handed over to the farmers by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud. The payment represents 5000 tonnes of paddy exported to Venezuela this year. The Minister is pleased with the payments for the current rice crop and said that next year is expected to be better for the rice industry with the figure surpassing 263,000 tonnes of paddy exports for this year.

 Police Commissioner Henry Greene said that no effort will be spared to stop the criminal activities that occur almost daily at the stabroek market and surrounding areas. The top cop raised serious concerns about what he calls the spot and rob criminals who ply the area only to pounce on people. The criminals up their tempo this time of the year and increase in number. The Police fully aware of this, deployed ranks in plain clothes and others in mobile patrols in the surrounding areas.

Three women from Georgetown were arrested and taken into Police custody after an investigation was launched at Bartica where there are five separate reports of stolen articles.
 
The women had in their possession a quantity of clothing, DVD players and an electrical iron which are suspected to have been “shoplifted” from business places in Bartica.
 
The women are expected to be charged for court shortly.
 

Fazeer Mohammed’s dismissal from State-owned Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG) is "quite reasonable" the founder of a new association purported to represent media practitioners has said.
Devant Maharaj the founder of the Association of Independent Media of Trinidad and Tobago (AIMtt) said according to his information Mohammed was being paid an exorbitant salary at the expense of tax payers.
Maharaj, also the newly appointed chairman of the Public Service Transport Commission (PTSC),  in defence of Mohammed’s dismissal from

 The long awaited paving of the tarmac at Guyana’s lone stadium is presently on-going at Providence. Yesterday President Bharrat Jagdeo while attending the National school’s track and field event took time out to visit the $103M GD project.