Even as Guyana’s gay right organisation held the country’s first ever march- though small in number - to clamour for equal rights, plans are in train to intensify a bipartisan political lobby to scrap laws activists say are discriminatory.

Three St. Lucians were Saturday injured when the car they were travelling in collided with a vehicle driven by former government minister, Dr. Henry Jeffrey.

Winston Brassington

Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington says his brother’s 30 percent stake in Hand-in-Hand Trust is not a conflict of interest, coming years after the former state-owned entity- GNCB Trust- was sold out.

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A  sticky-fingered airport employee with a stone-cold heart was collared for snatching pricey items from packages meant for U.S. troops overseas, officials said.

Local Gov't Minister Ganga Persaud and UNDP Resident Rep. Khadija Musa sign the project documents for the Guyana Youth Empowerment, Inclusion and Reconciliation Project.

The Guyana government and the UNDP have launched a two-year, US$150,000 project which will see some 30 potential youth leaders being trained to boost youth involvement in governance and community development.

The agreement was signed on Friday by Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud and UNDP Resident Representative Khadija Musa at the ministry’s boardroom. That ministry will be the implementing agency of the project.

This past month One World Youth Project (OWYP), an international education non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., is training university students in Georgetown and in the U.S., Turkey, Kosovo, and Pakistan to facilitate global education and local leadership in secondary school classrooms, the organisation said in a statement.

A State Funeral for internationally acclaimed artist and sculptor, Phillip Moore has been effectively ruled out but relatives are continuing their lobby for a grand national farewell. 

At the same time, his two children are willing to accept a “big funeral” if there is no consensus.

A summons was Friday issued for Presidential Advisor, Odinga Lumumba to appear before a city magistrate to answer a charge connected with a fracas at a polling station on general election day last November.

Dead: Shane George

A 17-year old boy was Friday arraigned on a charge of murdering his lessons classmate, Shane George on Wednesday.

Four days after Assistant Company Secretary for the Guyana and Trinidad Fire and Life Insurance Companies, Bert Whyte was stabbed to death, his car was found abandoned in Berbice, police spokesman, Superintendent John Sauers said.

In the face of allegations that moves had been made to steal the registered name of a local airline, the Guyana government on Thursday denied funding a study for a national flag carrier and making efforts to register the company.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman believes that time has come for Guyana to establish the official status of National Hero, a title for which he believes the late iconic Guyanese sculptor Phillip Moore was more than qualified.

In a statement on Thursday Trotman said the National Assembly needs to set the criteria for the recognition of those persons as has been done in other Caribbean countries.

The government says it will be narrowing its focus for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative to distribution as it contemplates the impact of the opposition’s budget cuts.

A statement from the Office of the President (OP) on Thursday said that the vision that propelled the OLPF initiative has been affected by those cuts.

Police and education officials have started a probe in the wake of gangs visiting the LBI Primary School and recently chopping a student to his head and searching for the Head Teacher and another teacher.

Two men lost their lives when the boat in which they were travelling struck an object and toppled in the Chenapau River, Region 8, police said.

One of the posters to be placed in healthcare and social services facilities.

The abuse of members of the gay community allegedly by law enforcement officials was highlighted on Thursday at a Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) event to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

The event was used to launch public education material aimed at enlightening healthcare and social services providers about the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual (LGBT) individuals and was part of a wider project that also included workshops in several regions and training sessions for stakeholders last year.

Russia's Ambassador to Guyana, Nikolay Smirnov.

Russia is preparing to wipe off the remainder of Guyana’s debt that harks back to the former Soviet Union and also help the South American nation combat narco trafficking.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon on Wednesday said some of the agencies affected by the budget cuts are in “dire straits” as uncertainty over whether they will get funds to pay salaries and meet other expenses continue.

Addressing the weekly post-Cabinet news briefing he pointed out that employment charges and utilities are some of the areas affected by the almost GUY$21B in cuts from the budget which have left some agencies with allocations of $1.

Teachers at LBI Primary School, East Coast Demerara are fearful of one or two gangs that chopped a student earlier this week and days after returned to the school in search of the head teacher who was probing the incident.

(CITIZENS VOICE).-A man who has been deported from the United States four times will be charged with illegal re-entry and other charges, including identity theft.