Guyana News

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,  (Reuters) – Republican Rick Santorum won a pair of crucial Deep South primaries yesterday, taking control of the party’s conservative wing in the presidential race and dealing a severe setback to rival Newt Gingrich.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The Hague international war crimes court found Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty in its first ruling today after a decade of work limited largely to Africa while major cases in the Middle East and Asia remain beyond its reach.

Shadow Finance Minister Carl Greenidge will not be attending a proposed meeting between the government and opposition tomorrow to discuss this year’s budget, since he is yet to be convinced that the administration is interested in anything more than a public relations show.

Almost two years after the murder of Latisha ‘Samantha’ Rodrigues the Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for the accused, Lexie Abiola Abigail Richardson.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) will in three weeks complete running a cable across the Demerara River to boost the power supply to the West Demerara.

Residents at Kwakwani waterfront were in a state of mourning yesterday after a pregnant woman who lived on the west bank of the Berbice River drowned in a boat mishap while travelling with her husband and three-year-old daughter.

A family is bewildered as to how their home at Lot 496 10th Street Paradise Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara went up in flames on Monday night, destroying everything that they owned and leaving them with only the clothes on their backs.

A 23-year-old man will spend the next six years and nine months in jail after he admitted yesterday  invading the home of Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase–Green last Saturday morning.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Defense attorney Robert Simels was disbarred in New York today by an appeals court,

Representatives from the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI), the local RUSAL subsidiary, yesterday failed to show up at the first arbitration meeting with the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU)—a move the union is calling “contemptuous.”

Director of Public Prose-cutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday submitted her written response to applications made by lawyers representing Police Commissioner Henry Greene to block a rape charge she recommended, from being instituted against him.

“Green” products and solutions took centre stage as the Region Four Department of Education’s Science, Technology and Mathematics Fair opened yesterday at the Diamond Secondary School,

Hopeful small miners flocked the Guyana Geology and Mines Commis-sion (GGMC) lottery of special mining permits held yesterday.

The Chinese company BOSAI is on the verge of a major expansion in Linden and government is in the process of finalising the company’s prospecting licence for the Block 37 area, Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud said Monday.

A National Insurance Scheme (NIS) inspector was thrown out of the Wales sugar estate compound while attempting to uplift workers records last Thursday.

Lindeners are concerned that the growing piles of garbage spread across several communities pose a serious health threat, while the Town Council is blaming malfunctioning trucks and lack of resources for the situation.

An x-ray and pictures taken from different angles refute claims by city businessman Nigel Reid that his recent tooth extraction resulted in extraneous damage.

The Public Relations Office of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion says that at around 9.40 yesterday morning, one of the hospital’s staff was carrying out welding works on the Middle Street gate, during which a small fire started but which was quickly put out.

After recent attacks on vendors, including where one was shot a week ago, Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green has said that the City Constabulary Department has improved security at Bourda and the other markets in the city.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is verifying its community workers to regularise their employment and to stamp out corruption, including the inflation of payment sheets.