Year: 2012

Acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brummel on Friday said the force got no directive from any political personality or minister of government regarding its policing of the volatile Linden community, which has been on tenterhook since last week when lawmen shot and killed three protesters during a power hike demonstration. In a statement clearing the air on the issue, police said: “Cognisant of rumours circulating among concerned members of the public, the Guyana Police Force wishes to categorically state that at no time was any directive or instruction given to the…

The three men shot dead during a protest last week in Linden against the hike in electricity rates were shot with live rounds and not rubber pellets, autopsies conducted by pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh and overlooked by a Trinidadian specialist have confirmed. The autopsies also revealed that the men were shot through their hearts, and in one case, the victim was shot in his back. Police in a release said post-mortem examinations were performed on the bodies of Ron Somerset, Allan Lewis and Shemroy Bouyea, of Wismar, Linden, by Dr…

Ecuadorian Tourism Minister Freddy Ehlers said he was captivated by Guyana, its architecture and sustainable development plan during a recent visit to the country, the Guyana Tourism Authority reported. The visiting diplomat paid a courtesy call on acting Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali last Thursday at the Housing Ministry in Georgetown, to discuss the integration of the two countries’ tourism product among other issues. Ehlers, who is also a television producer and journalist, will be making a video documentary during his stay. “This is my first trip to…

The 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) opened on Sunday evening at the Walter E Washington Convention Centre in the United States, with Washington pledging to continue its support for poor countries in the fight against the pandemic. The conference is being attended by some 25,000 delegates from more than 195 countries. It is focused primarily on bringing the greatest minds in the field of science and social sciences together, in order to come up with a strategy to eradicate the deadly virus and break the culture of stymieing development…

Foreign and local, and public and private sectors’ investments in the diversification of the local economy must factor in the concepts of “green” and “blue” economies in their plans and strategies. “We need to be aware of what is known as the blue economy,” Planning Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie said at the closing session on Friday of the Conference on Developing a National Diversification Strategy at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain. Tewarie defined the “blue economy” in island countries such as TT “as an economy based on the sustainable management of…

Light traffic has begun to flow on the Demerara Harbour Bridge, two days after a section of the structure collapsed. A team of dedicated workers and engineers attached to the Demerera Harbour Bridge has worked tirelessly for the past 48 hours, making it possible for light traffic to access the facility on Wednesday, just after 13: 00h. The bridge, which is 95 per cent complete, was opened to facilitate cars and other small vehicles, but it will take another few days to accommodate heavy traffic. General Manager of the bridge…