Day: January 18, 2011

Georgetown-
Maternal and Child Health Unit will be launching  the PRENEVAR (pneumococcal 13- valent conjugate vaccine).  PCV13 replaces a previous conjugate vaccine (PCV7), which protected against 7 pneumococcal types. In Guyana, this will replace the PCV 7 which was in use from 2009.

The new pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) protects against 13 strains of pneumococcal infections. These bacteria types are responsible for most severe pneumococcal infections among children.

 Regent Street, Georgetown – The police today are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at late last night Monday at Regent and Bourda Streets, Georgetown, during which huckster Sanjay Persaud of No. 60 Village, Corentyne, was attacked and robbed by three men, two of whom were armed with handguns.

 Meadow Bank – East Bank Demerara – 23 year old Mark Greene, a labourer of Meadow Bank Squatting Area, Georgetown, was stabbed to the neck by another man after an argument erupted at the Meadow Bank Wharf.

 Essequibo –Acting on information received, the police arrested, 18-year-old Brazilian national at Itaballi.

Georgetown- Faced with a troubling year of poor performance, financial problems, strikes and infrastructure troubles, the Guyana Sugar Corporation now has a priority to increase cane availability with expanding acreage until cultivation along with higher levels of participation by private cane farmers. Finance Minister Ashnie Singh in his budget outlined a series of interventions to enable the survival and viability of the corporation. Among these are the acquisition of mechanized cane harvesters, cane loaders, tractors and haulage units.