Guyana News

DAEGU, South Korea,  (Reuters) – American sprinter Justin Gatlin continued his recent resurgence ahead of the London Olympics with victory in the men’s 100 metres at the IAAF World Challenge meeting today.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – A U.N. official criticized Canada today for allowing some of its people to go hungry, but the government shrugged it off, saying there are more pressing food concerns in other countries.

PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute, an independent non-profit group, has slammed the appointment of former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner as the country’s acting prime minister, saying serious allegations against him in the football organization remain unresolved.

(Trinidad Express) The criminal retrial against former prime minister Basdeo Panday who is charged with failing to declare a London-based bank account to the Integrity Commission for three consecutive years is expected to be decided tomorrow.

(Jamaica Observer) A repentant Beenie Man has issued an emotional apology to the international gay community. Beenie

A US-based man is in a serious condition after being shot and chopped today in a robbery at Bloomfield, Corentyne.

Police today said the post-mortem result on the mother of six who was found outside a Waiakabra shop showed that she died of hypertension.

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican-born British couple say they have been told they can’t foster a 16th child in their Derby County home, because as Christians they don’t believe homosexuality is right.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has tightened controls at importers of fruit and vegetables from Suriname because spot-checks carried out in 2010 and 2011 show that products from Suriname and many other countries contain too many residues and pesticides that carry a health risk.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite facing the perils of prison if convicted for harbouring a fugitive and attempting to pervert the course of justice, the Reverend Al Miller says he would transport Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke if he were confronted with the situation again.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The war on guns is going high tech as Columbus Business Solutions (CBS), in collaboration with the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Ministry of National Security, fights to find funding for a technology capable of preventing gun crimes.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A mother shot and killed her four children before turning a gun on herself in a small town in Florida yesterday, authorities said.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Bar Association is throwing its full weight behind a recent call made by attorney at law and political activist David Comissiong for foreign investigators to be brought in to probe all police killings.

Several persons were last evening being questioned by police as investigations intensify into the murder of GTM Director Lionel Bert Whyte and so far there are more questions than answers.

The Guyana Gold Board is to open two other locations and later a refinery to meet not only the high demands of the agency but particularly to curb smuggling of the precious metal which accounts for millions in revenue losses.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday in an address to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) called on governments to do more to “reduce poverty and inequality,” because they pose “the greatest threat to democracy and security” in the region.

Pandemonium reigned on Friday at the Yarakita Primary School in the Mabaruma Sub-Region when a party of heavily armed policemen forced a dozen young men from the community to strip naked in According to a teacher at the Region One school, on Thursday evening several men who work in the goldfields across the Venezuelan border were robbed by four armed men as they walked along  the trail which led to the goldfields in the Polvo de Oro area and which is  frequented by Guyanese miners.

A robbery under arms convict was brutally stabbed in the Camp Street prison yesterday and his mother fears that more harm may come his way.

President Donald Ramotar and his delegation yesterday met and held talks with US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman.

Queen’s College student Glinton Hanover has won a two-year, CDN$80,000 ($16.5M) scholarship to the Lester B Pearson College, Canada.