Guyana News

Residents of Bartica have expressed concern over the dumping of garbage by a private entity along the shoulders of the roadway in the interior mining community by a private entity.

The Guyana Police Force said yesterday said that a hair sample in the Sheema Mangar case which was to be taken to Barbados for testing in October 2010 was left behind by a policeman but it was eventually dispatched to Bridgetown in August last year and the results are being awaited.

With no mining operations in the Haieka River, along which the communities of Chinoweing and Wax Creek are located, teams investigating fish deaths in the area did not test the water for mercury, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said yesterday.

First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar is planning on creating a garden on a section of the lawns of State House, to promote gardening among children in Georgetown.

Two more persons accused in the January 18 cocaine bust aboard the MV Bismarck 2 were yesterday remanded to prison after being arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A fisherman accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint was yesterday admitted to self-bail after his attorney produced proof to the court that he was not identified as the perpetrator of the crime when placed on an ID parade.

Approximately 1 kilogramme of cocaine has gone missing while being transported from Bartica to Police Headquarters, Eve Leary by an officer and ranks from the Narcotics Branch and Tactical Services Unit last Friday.

Police in Mahdia last Friday discovered an unlicensed gun and several matching rounds near the airstrip and an arrest is yet to be made.

The Guyana Police Force today said that a hair sample in the Sheema Mangar case which was to be taken to Barbados for testing in October 2010 was left behind by a policeman but it was eventually dispatched to Bridgetown in August last year and the results are being awaited.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, whose members have been accused of rape, assault and sparking a cholera epidemic in the country, is investigating new allegations that peacekeepers sexually abused minors.

Police today said that last Friday, a total of ten police ranks from the Narcotics Branch and the Tactical Services Unit, headed by an Officer, uplifted 137 packets of cocaine from Police Headquarters to be escorted to Bartica.

The celebration of the life of Cyril Shaw will be held at the National Cultural Centre, tomorrow, Tuesday 24th January at 2pm.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Although the Chinese association Kong Ngie Tong Sang is content with last year’s results, it calls for a speedy settlement of the legal residence permit for over 1,000 Chinese.

(Jamaica Observer) The St Ann police have charged a 13-year-old boy in connection with the death of seven-year-old Delano Greenwood, who was killed in Scarlett Hall near Salem in St Ann last Saturday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In a few days Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says the Government will create approximately 700 jobs when the much talked about Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) begins rolling.

The Jamaican Force Constabulary has told the Guyana Government that it will provide a full report by the end of this month on the DNA analysis of samples taken from Lindo Creek where eight miners were murdered in June 2008.

Nine gold diggers have been killed in a gunfight between rival gangs at a remote site in French Guiana, say police in the territory.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Indian batsman Virender Sehwag rates the current Australia pace attack as among the best he has faced in his 10-year test career.

(Barbados Nation) The strike by more than two dozen Alexandra School teachers is heading into its third week in spite of the intervention of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court said today it would try Kenya’s presidential contenders William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta and two other men on charges of crimes against humanity during post-election violence in 2008.