Author: TrakkerNews

Georgetown – Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon this morning briefing the media said, Guyana will be mounting an assimilation exercise done through the ministry of Agriculture in region 9 from the 13th to the 17th December 2010.

Works Minister Jack Warner says he did nothing wrong in the FIFA voting process.
Warner has been heavily chastised by the English media for their unsuccessful bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
Warner says if this country experiences any diplomatic backlash from England because of the failed bid then it would show that England’s motives were "blackmail".
Warner says FIFA’s decision is to have Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 world cups respectively.

 Georgetown –President’s College won the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) second Secondary Schools’ Science and Technology Quiz Competition.  The runner – up is Queen’s College. Sixteen schools took part in this year’s competition, the four schools that competed in the semi-finals were Berbice High School against President’s College and Abrams Zuil Secondary against Queen’s College.

Industrial site Ruimveldt, East Bank Demarara – Managing Director of National Hardware Edward Boyer on Thursday evening told TrakkerNews that Freddie Kissoon’s behaviour and accusation of assault against him is quite unfortunate. Kissoon, a loyal columnist of the often controversial Kaieteur Newspaper had a verbal feud with Boyer at National Hardware Supercentre where he went to shop.

Georgetown – The Agriculture Ministry had issued a warning for citizens to take precautionary measure during the month of December with the predicted heavy rainfall coupled with unusual high tides, now the ministry is leading from the front.

Captain Vaman Bajnath has been appointed as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago.
Works Minister Jack Warner presented Bajnath and the nine other Board members with their letters of appointment today.
Bajnath has promised to improve the airports at Piarco and Crowne Point in Tobago.
Felix Hernandez has been appointed as Deputy Chairman.

Georgetown – The headline “Sugar Workers accept two weeks’ pay offer” is misleading and erroneous as carried on the front page of the December 7th, 2010 edition of the Stabroek News, this is according to the Guyana Agricultural and general workers union (GAWU).

Eve Leary, Georgetown– TrakkerNews caught sight of these stray catchers parked for months in the police compound, Eve Leary, while the busy roadways, particularly along the county areas continue to be inhabited by stray animals. Cows and horses often take over portions of the road, posing serious danger to vehicular traffic, particularly at nights. Apart from speeding and reckless driving which result in most accidents, statistics have shown that stray animals are also a major contributor and in the past have resulted in deaths on the roadways.

Georgetown- Guyana’s lone IP satellite provider E-Networks has move a step forward with the launch of the WiMax 4G broadband services. President Bharrat Jagdeo endorsed the initiative last night with the company’s launch and described the technology as an advanced system that will propel Guyana in the forefront of cutting edge technology around the world. He pointed out that this will allow Guyana to move fully into E Government mode, hooking up schools,hospitals and everything else so technology can be  deploy to the service of the people.

West Ruimveldt. Georgetown– After months of trying to resolve issues and have an investigation done by the Ministry of Education, the PTA President of West Ruimveldt primary school, Eric Benjamin has moved to the press. Benjamin told TrakkerNews that he wants to expose the unethical behavior of the Head Teacher(name given). He said that since she took over from August 2009, PTA funds are missing with no account given.