Guyana News

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass yesterday after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba.

Millions of dollars worth of groceries were early this morning destroyed in a fire at the Stabroek Market Bazaar, which is believed to have been caused by a faulty power pole.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former Red House hostage Mervyn Assam said there were rumours that insurrection leader, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, always harboured ambitions to lead Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Leaders of the People’s Partnership (PP) Government will meet for a third time next Wednesday to try and resolve simmering issues, Congress of the People general secretary Nirad Tewarie has said.

(Barbados Nation) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay wants Raul Garcia freed immediately.

LILONGWE, (Reuters) – Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, medical and government sources said today, although few of his countrymen mourned a leader widely seen as an autocrat responsible for a stunning economic collapse.

In a few days, Guyanese would know the outcome of Henry Greene’s position as Commissioner of Police following the court ruling that he should not be tried in a rape matter against him.

The Government has sold its 20% shares in the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph company to a Chinese company for US$30M ($6B), Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday.

Work on the Kumaka revetment in the Mabaruma Sub-region has stalled for the second time this year and loads of earth, which were packed into the area, were last evening falling into the nearby Aruka River.

A car said to be speeding on the Vreed-en-Hoop Public Road last night struck down and dragged a destitute man several feet away where he subsequently died.

A 43-year-old labourer of Edinburgh Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice was yesterday stabbed to death around 9:30 am.

A West Bank Demerara man is nursing injuries to his face suffered at the hands of three armed robbers who on Wednesday evening invaded the Best Village home of his employer, terrorized two other workers and made off with over $4M in local and foreign currency along with the home owner’s gun.

The government has begun deliberations under Article 225 of the Constitution in relation to the ethical issue of Commissioner of Police Henry Greene’s admission that he had sexual relations with a witness in a matter under investigation, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

The announcement by Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh at the reading of the national budget last week that the electricity tariff in Linden would be increased resulted in street protests by residents yesterday morning.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the recent discharge of the treason case warrants a challenge but stopped short of saying whether one would be mounted.

CGX Energy says that there is “nothing new” to report from the operations in its 100 percent operated licence at the Eagle well off the Corentyne Coast as it approaches the end of its drilling campaign.

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday overruled the preliminary objections raised in the parliamentary committees’ case and will next Wednesday hear arguments on whether a constitutional breach has occurred in the numerical make-up of those committees.

Police say they have five men in custody assisting with investigations after six men were robbed in a holdup and relieved of a quantity of raw gold, US$1,000, one cell phone and a quantity of imitation jewellery in the Wenamu River, Cuyuni on Wednesday.

Notice has been served that APNU MP Carl Greenidge will move a motion in Parliament for the repeal of the controversial former presidents’ benefits act but without prejudice to the payment of benefits.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St. Catherine Police are now questioning a 44-year-old man of a Harbour View address in Kingston, following the attack on the life of his girlfriend, Jody-ann Gray, a 28-year-old broadcaster and journalist yesterday.