Public sector, disciplined services, pensioners get $19.8b – ministry

Some 69,000 public sector employees including members of the disciplined services and government pensioners received their 10 per cent across-the-board increase last week, while over 12,000 members of the disciplined services received their year-end one-month bonus yesterday with the total disbursed amounting to $19.8 billion, a Ministry of Finance release stated.

Merry Xmas

The brilliantly lit Main Street last evening heralding Christmas Day (Office of the Prime Minister photo)

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha (right), engaging fishmongers at the Meadowbank wharf (Ministry of Agriculture photo)
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha (right), engaging fishmongers at the Meadowbank wharf (Ministry of Agriculture photo)

Upgrades to Meadowbank wharf 80% complete – Mustapha

Upgrades to the Meadowbank wharf in Georgetown are 80 per cent complete with some $150 million expended so far, to the benefit of fisherfolk and fishmongers who operate there.

Gold is Money, Road Warriors, Bent St. A advance to quarterfinals

Kashif & Shanghai National Futsal – matches set for tonight at Sports Hall Gold is Money, Road Warriors, Bent Street A, and Team Cruel secured their berths to the quarterfinal section when the Kashif and Shanghai National Futsal Championship continued at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

Basketball, like most sports, lack developmental push – Bowman

– says that cricket has a clear developmental vision While acknowledging that the discipline of cricket has a clearly defined vision, Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Co-Director Chris Bowman stated that other disciplines such as basketball lack that type of foresight required for their development, which is evident in their dearth of national infrastructure and investment.

Armed men fire on Haiti hospital reopening, killing at least 3

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and others injured yesterday when armed men opened fire on a group of journalists gathered for a government press conference set to announce the reopening of Haiti’s largest public hospital, a witness to the attack told Reuters.