Author: TrakkerNews

Opposition Leader Dr keith Rowley has said the government’s plan purchase of Air Jamaica will be the recreation of a problem that has already been solved.
Rowley, speaking at a town meeting in Sangre Grande last night, said for years BWIA had been a drain on this country’s treasury.
He said this problem was rectified with the restructuring of BWIA into Caribbean Airlines.
Rowley said Caribbean Airlines has been financially viable for the past four years but this is now in jeopardy with the proposed merger of Air Jamaica.

 Georgetown – Long serving party activist, Mrs. Joan Baveghems, has been extracted from the Top Up List of the PNCR/1G List of Candidates for the 2006 General and Regional Elections, to fill the vacancy in the National Assembly created by the death of the late, Mr. Winston Murray. 

 Georgetown – Anticipation is high about the discovery of oil when the first attempt is made within months to drill a well offshore Guyana.

 Georgetown – Finance Minister in presenting the country’s largest budget of $161.4B, allocated $10.1 billion for roads and bridges of which $8.2 billion will be spent on roads and $1.9 billion on bridges.

West Bank. Demerara –
The police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at Belle Vue Public Road, WBD and which resulted in the death of
Terrence Mc Allister, 23 years, a member of the Guyana Defence Force, and of Princess Street, Lodge, Georgetown.

The police said, Terrence Mc Allister was driving motor cycle CF 6685 along the Belle Vue Public Road, when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with a sluice and received injuries.
He was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.