Repeat Bartica drunk driver fined, suspended
Steve King, 35, a miner of lot 32 Sixth Avenue, Bartica was on February 24 last arrested and charged with Driving under the Influence (DUI).
He was fined and his driver’s licence endorsed, the police said. On December 23, he was again arrested and charged with DUI. The defendant appeared before Magistrate Esther Sam at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court yesterday, pleaded guilty, was fined an additional $7,500 and his licence suspended for twelve months. The offences were committed in Bartica and on both occasions he was driving motorcar PTT 25. With efforts to revitalise the co-operative society movement in Guyana, the Ministry of Social Protection’s Labour Department will be establishing four new co-operative movements in the coastland areas in 2018.
According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), the US$12 million funded project aims to create a minimum of 160 jobs for persons in the Mocha, Buxton, Beterverwagting and Ithaca areas.
According to Chief Cooperatives Development Officer, Perlina Gifth, the movement will take the form of a worker-type society to benefit the employees.
“You can be a member of the society and be an employer of the society…We are working towards creating employment for the unemployed. A person can be employed in a co-op society and have the same benefits as outlined in the labour laws of Guyana,” Gifth said.
According to Gifth, the new approach (worker-type) will be introduced to other co-operative societies, since it is geared to attract more persons to the movement. According to DPI, she said the four new co-op societies will function as the pilot groups for a Rural Agriculture Infrastructure Development Programme, managed under the Ministry of Agriculture.
“These four groups are expected to have funding of over US$12 million dollars. The funding will provide all the equipment and whatever seedlings that they will require because it is agriculturebased,” Gifth explained.