Guyana News

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Florida scam artists told elderly  victims the government had changed the laws regulating toilet  paper and that their septic tanks would be ruined unless they  bought specially formulated rolls, court documents said.

A light Cessna 152 aircraft which was enroute from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana, crash-landed in a rice field on the island of Wakenaam shortly after lunchtime today.

(Jamaica Observer) The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says 95 per cent of incomplete shooting-related cases are awaiting the results of forensic testing, and has recommended that the necessary steps be taken to improve the operations of the Government Forensic Lab, or give the commission budgetary allocations to use private local and overseas laboratories.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has announced support for the police to ensure that the upcoming polls are peaceful, including a commitment to provide transportation and other resources to ranks and setting up an operations centre to monitor the electoral process.

Demerara Bank Limited today warned the public to be on the look out for forged manager’s cheques.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Darren Bravo tormented  India’s bowlers with a classy 166 as West Indies racked up a  mammoth 575 for nine in their first innings today,  virtually ending the hosts’ hopes of inflicting a whitewash in  the final test at the Wankhede Stadium.

(Barbados Nation) Shmona Simpson, a model student of the Cayman Islands and the holder of a first-class honours degree from the University of London, is the latest recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

(Barbados Nation) Two former governors of the Barbados Central Bank have suggested that Barbados heed the advice of the international rating agency Standard & Poor’s.

(Barbados Nation) The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) will not be privatized and will remain a state-owned radio and television station despite its debt-ridden state, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has affirmed.

A mother of five is among two people killed after a truck transporting persons into the mining areas aback Buck Hall, on the Essequibo River, overturned yesterday morning.

A 35-year-old labourer of Burnham Avenue, Rosignol, West Bank Berbice was stabbed to death around 4:40 pm yesterday while consuming alcohol at a rum shop in the village.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday said that Elections Day should be declared a national holiday.

A man died yesterday afternoon after he was pinned by the tray of a sand truck at the corner of Church and Albert streets.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry sentenced a Canadian National who pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri to four years jail, when he yesterday appeared in court.

By Johann Earle Presidential Candidate of the PPP/C Donald Ramotar gave an undertaking to residents of Annandale on the East Coast that his government will root out corruption, but blamed the previous administration for the state of affairs the PPP inherited in 1992.

By Marcelle Thomas The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday accused the Ministry of Works of discrimination and hypocrisy over the removal of the party’s campaign banners in the city and at Ogle, East Coast Demerara—charges Minister Robeson Benn denied.

An elderly man lost his home after a fire of unknown origin completely gutted it while he was out late yesterday afternoon.

Organisers of the Linden Fund Trust (LFT) media forum are peeved at the no-show of the representative of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) despite assurances of their participation by the Linden campaign coordinator.

With sugar production for the year at 220,000 tonnes, Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Paul Bhim confirmed yesterday that the revised target set for the year is out of reach.

Dexter Pires, 29, the Tucville, Georgetown man for whom police issued a wanted bulletin in connection with narcotics trafficking, is being linked to a recent bust in Berbice in which 10 kilogrammes of cocaine was found hidden in a car.