News

by Adelle Z. Roopchand July 2014 – Nairobi….The access to finance is and has been a debilitating factor in the progress of agricultural development across the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions.  Farmers from the regions have called on governments to address the financial strategies for better access by the agricultural sector to funding from lending institutions.  The farmers addressed ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Tuesday appeared to suggest that a purported form showing the transfer of weapons to the People’s National Congress (PNC) is a bogus document. Testifying before a Commission that is inquiring into the bomb-blast death of Guyanese politician and world-renowned historian,  Lt.Col. Patrick West said the regimental number on the document differed from that in ...

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant fingered in the death of Guyanese politician and historian, Dr. Walter Rodney is dead but his status in the army remains a mystery because his personnel file cannot be found, according to testimony provided to a Commission of Inquiry on Tuesday. Lt. Col. Patrick West said records show that there was a 4141 William ...

The bodies of two fishermen, who were victims of an alleged piracy attack earlier this month, have so far been found at different locations of the Corentyne foreshore. They are those of 22-year old Naresh Persaud of Number 72 Village, Corentyne and 36-year old Omesh Derhup of Skeldon, Corentyne. Persaud’s body was found on the Alness foreshore and that of ...

The woman, whose decomposed remains were found last week in a clump of bushes, died of stab wounds, according to an autopsy conducted Monday. The autopsy was conducted by Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh. “He gave the cause of death as due to incised wounds to the abdomen,” said police spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said in a statement. The unidentified body ...

The Region 10 branch of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Monday pledged to mend fences after the most chaotic Congress ended with question marks about the integrity of the internal electoral process. “Congress is over, and we are now faced with the task of moving forward, of mending our rifts, of correcting our weaknesses and building on our ...

Police on Monday began initial investigations into a shooting incident at the headquarters of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) one day earlier. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Leslie James said police have been initial investigations. No one has been arrested and the identity of the man has not yet been established.  Leader of the PNCR, David ...

Police have been studying a complaint lodged by the Alliance For Change (AFC) against Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh for spending monies from the Consolidated Fund on programmes and projects that have been already voted down by the opposition-controlled House during the budget process. Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said investigators were also due to seek advice from the Director of ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger Sunday evening denied that the elections machinery facilitated rigging and padding of the delegates list to sweep him back at the helm of the party.  “These things are not true” he told a news conference at the end of the three-day 18th biennial congress that was marred by allegations by ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger said Sunday evening that it was a member of the Returning Officer’s security team that discharged a loaded firearm during the party’s 18th biennial congress. “The person whose image is there might have been engaged to secure the Returning Officer’s staff, not by Congress Place,” he told a news conference. ...