Guyana News

The police say they are investigating the murder of Mark Ashby, 20 years of Mabaruma, NWD, which occurred yesterday at Port Kaituma, NWD.

A 60 year old man was found tied up with his throat slashed early this morning at an Enmore shop where he was employed as a security guard.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Lawyers for the suspects in the December murders case have reacted shocked and disappointed over the decision by the court martial to adjourn proceedings.

(Jamaica Observer) Ten Jamaican men, who reportedly left The Bahamas for Miami by boat between late February and early March this year, have seemingly disappeared into thin air.

(Jamaica Gleaner) CHEDWIN PARK, St Catherine:In 1845, on May 12, the first set of East Indian indentured labourers landed at Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, to fill the labour gaps left by enslaved Africans, after Emancipation in 1838.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strode, sang and gave a rousing speech yesterday in a careful show of vigour after his latest cancer treatment in Cuba fanned rumours he was dying five months before an election.

Water levels in Lethem and other sections of the Rupununi remained constant yesterday and the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has been activated to assist communities that have been hit by floods over the past few days.

-also received $1.2 billion gov’t subvention In 2004, government holding company National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) recorded revenues of $26.9 billion and profit after taxes of $1.6 billion, compared to revenue of $30 billion and profit of $12.5 billion in 2003.

Story and photographs by Johann Earle Work on the Supenaam and Parika stellings is not yet completed despite an assurance by Transport Minister Robeson Benn that they would have been ready to accommodate the two recently-acquired Chinese ferries by the end of last month.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday accused the government of creating unease by exaggerations about the opposition’s budget cuts, particularly in Amerindian communities, and has called on the administration to stop.

Quancy John, the policeman accused of fatally shooting Patentia schoolboy Kelvin Fraser almost two years ago has been committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder.

The autopsy performed on Valerie Gordon—the mother of nine who dropped dead after police allegedly opened fire near her Sophia home—revealed she died of a burst artery in her brain and the case has raised questions about when lawmen should resort to the use of firearms.

A cousin who returned to Guyana with the construction worker accused of murdering a teenager in Trinidad and Tobago has also gone into hiding and relatives are calling on the duo to turn themselves in to the police.

Two of the men charged with the murder of taxi-driver Seerajie Singh pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the High Court on Thursday, while the third accused walked away a free man after he was found not guilty.

Jaikarran Singh, the man that police say was held at Moleson Creek, in Berbice, with over 12 kilogrammes of cannabis, was yesterday arraigned on a charge of narcotics trafficking.

Rice farmers in regions Five and Six are facing losses with the start of the rainy season, according to the Agriculture Ministry, which has warned them to take precautions when harvesting as rainfall is expected to continue over the next two weeks.

Four financial provisions voted down by the Opposition two months ago because of the lack of details were presented again to the National Assembly on Thursday.

The debate on a motion to compel the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to deposit its finances into the Consolidated Fund was deferred, since there was no time for it at Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly.

Plans are being streamlined to give the public more access to the work of the National Assembly and this could see loudspeakers being installed outside the Public Buildings and a dedicated channel to broadcast parliamentary sittings.

Partners of the Americas Farmer to Farmer programme is hosting a two-week training session with Professor Dr Robin Brumfield, a farm financial management specialist at Rutgers University, to boost the operations of  hydroponic shadehouse vegetable growers in Guyana.