Guyana News

More cocaine from Guyana has been seized by Canada in another shipment of fruit – this time in star apples.

(Barbados Nation) PORT OF SPAIN – Former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Patrick Manning was airlifted to the Walter Reed Memorial Hospital in the United States yesterday as his family questioned the quality of health care he had been receiving here even before he suffered the mild stroke that left him partly paralysed two weeks ago.

MALE, (Reuters) – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the hideaway resort islands, resigned today after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Saeed Ajmal, who tortured England’s batsmen in Pakistan’s clean sweep of their three-test series, believes no one has yet been able to pick his mystery “teesra” ball.

Three men who were on a mission to render assistance to the Pomeroon piracy victims were up to press time last night still missing despite hours of searching with a helicopter and boats.

Reports of sexual abuse of children have increased significantly over the last year, according to the head of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA), Ann Greene, who says more has to be done to empower children and to protect them from sexual predators.

Parents are seeking redress over the expulsion of 26 students from the Paramakatoi Secondary School, after a quantity of marijuana was found under a bed at the school’s dormitory.

The government will face scrutiny over a possible breach of the Fiscal Manage-ment and Accountability Act (FMAA) as Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh prepares to seek parliamentary approval for $5.6 billion in supplementary budget funds to cover spending that took place towards the end of last year.

Residents of Sand Pit and Red Village in Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast are calling on the relevant authorities to listen to their cries for help with the deplorable conditions they are enduring, including the lack of potable water.

With a view to ensuring that farmers’ losses are minimized, Government through the agriculture ministry is ensuring that there is dam maintenance and construction, and is deploying pumps and excavators to flood affected areas, GINA has said.

Floodwaters in the Pomeroon River have started receding but residents are expecting to be flooded again as the sluices close, leaving the water without another escape point—a situation that has been recurring over the past two weeks.

The indigenous Wapichan people of Guyana will today unveil a locally–made digital map of their traditional territory along with a proposal to save 1.4 million hectares of pristine rainforest, to protect their land and to develop their communities.

A British consultancy company has won the tender to provide the necessary services to carry out certain reforms within the Guyana Police Force, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has said.

Opposition Leader David Granger yesterday called on President Donald Ramotar to halt the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration’s plan to re-deploy overseers of several Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC).

Nandanie Singh, the woman whose baby died in a boat accident in the Cuyuni River on Sunday morning, was up to last night still in the Georgetown Public Hospital.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew Strauss said there would be no knee-jerk reaction to the 3-0 series defeat by Pakistan that has seen his team’s lead at the top of the test rankings slashed to one point.

(Jamaica Observer) The rigidly enforced zero tolerance policy of the Office of the Contractor General (OCG), which was first introduced in October 2006 to rein in public bodies which were refusing to comply with the lawful requisitions of the OCG, has now succeeded in producing another record 100 per cent compliance rate.

Police say that at about 1500h. on Saturday, a fishing crew of four comprising Ganeshwar Reddy called ‘Smallie’ of Mon Repos, ECD, Shafeek Khan, ‘Rackoo’ and ‘Kumar’, left in a fishing vessel from the Meadow Bank Wharf, EBD, with an additional outboard engine in order to render assistance to one of the fishing crews that was attacked and robbed by armed men in the Pomeroon River area.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago (RBTT) will formally make place for the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) today.

(de Ware Tijd) SARAMACCA – People reacted with shock and disbelief to a drama that took place in Saramacca Friday evening.