Author: TrakkerNews

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), with funding from the World Bank is in the process of establishing a modern Hydroclave Healthcare Infectious Waste Treatment Facility, which has the capacity to sterilize all infectious waste generated daily in Georgetown and its environs.GPHC’s management says the Hydroclave system is 95% completed and is estimated to be commissioned during the second week of November 2010.

Information coming out of Police Headquarters today, is that more officers will be dispatched around the country aided by members of the various Policing groups and the possibility of army ranks. There are indications that a joint task force will be set up to tackle the alarming incidents of robbery and gun violence that continue almost daily. In the wake of more attacks this time in New Amsterdam Berbice, the police stated that it is sparing no efforts in finding those responsible.

A memorandum of understanding will soon be signed between Guyana and Suriname, paving the way for rice trade in the Caribbean market. According to the Ministry of Agriculture today, once the MOU is signed, transfer of technical resources between the two countries will begin and hopefully Guyana will start exporting it’s paddy to Suriname.