Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the discovery of two bodies bearing gunshot wounds in the Hindustan, New Grant, community yesterday morning and Friday night and have taken a relative of one of the victims into custody for questioning.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has recorded, what many believe is a staggering number of maternal and infant deaths for the year so far, but Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsarran said the figures are not alarming as they are on par with last year’s and consideration should be given to the fact that it is the country’s only public referral facility, which receives the high-risk and critical cases.

Photos by Anjuli Persaud and Frances Abraham Liverpool on the Corentyne coast is situated about 18 miles from New Amsterdam, and consists of 450 homes with about 1,000 persons, the largest proportion of whom are African-Guyanese.

Maritime authorities searched in vain yesterday to locate missing cook Gerald Fraser, who was on board the cargo vessel Miss Elissa, which capsized in the Demerara River on Friday afternoon.

Police have arrested the suspected gunman who opened fire on Charlestown resident, Oriley Small at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) tarmac on Friday evening, injuring two other persons in the process.

A 12-year-old boy and his grandmother were held at gunpoint yesterday when their family business was robbed by four armed men.

Guyana’s Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions are among senior legal officials who have rejected a suggestion by Senior Counsel, Ralph Ramkarran that jury trials should be abolished.

Sharon Howell, the mother of 10 who was stabbed and hammered mercilessly by her partner, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital and is said to be resting at her Freeman Street, East La Penitence home.

Six months into the 10th Parliament, the first major piece of legislation—the Telecommunications Bill—will be tabled in the National Assembly by the Alliance For Change (AFC) and this will be done within two weeks.

The liabilities of Guyana Stores Ltd (GSL) at the time of its sale by the state and whether its assets had been stripped were among issues that arose as NICIL’s head Winston Brassington was cross-examined on Friday in a case where NICIL is seeking to recover an outstanding sum of US$2M which formed part of the purchase price.

University of Guyana (UG) staff members are still working under the same conditions at the Turkeyen campus that they protested earlier this year, leading to calls for new action.

A number of engineers with  China National Technical Industrial Corporation (CNTIC) – builders of the troubled Skeldon sugar factory – are expected to leave Guyana next month but questions remain over the quality of the company’s work and penalties it should have faced over what was to be a turn-key project.

The designation of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) to manage the Good Hope crematorium will not affect cremations by non-Hindus at the facility.

Mings Products and Services (MPS) recently presented a $360,000 ZOLL Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) to the St Joseph Mercy Hospital and this was coordinated by Dr Rohan Jabour, paediatrician, who works at the hospital, a press release stated.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Liberia closed its border with Ivory Coast today but did not confirm the claim by Abidjan that gunmen who killed seven United Nations peacekeepers, eight civilians and a soldier had come from its territory.

BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers agreed today to lend Spain up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) to shore up its teetering banks and Madrid said it would specify precisely how much it needs once independent audits report in just over a week.

The liabilities of Guyana Stores Ltd (GSL) at the time of its sale by the state and whether its assets had been stripped were among issues that arose as NICIL’s head Winston Brassington was cross-examined on Friday in a case where NICIL is seeking to recover an outstanding sum of US$2M which formed part of the purchase price.

PARIS (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova was crowned the new queen of Roland Garros after she kept her poise to outwit and outpower diminutive Italian Sara Errani 6-3 6-2 to complete her collection of grand slam trophies today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Convicted gangster, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke’s lawyer, Stephen Rosen says his client will not appeal the 23 year sentence he was handed in a United States Federal court yesterday.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo has urged a review of the contract awarded to China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Limited to rebuild the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri according to a report by the state-owned NCN.