Guyana News

The police say they are investigating the murder of Raymond Roberts, 25 years of Child Hill, Matthews Ridge, North West District, which occurred on Sunday at Black Banana, Matthews Ridge, NWD.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Iran appears to have worked on  designing an atomic bomb and may still be conducting relevant  research, the U.N.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio  Berlusconi confirmed today that he would stand down after a  new budget law is approved in parliament.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The doctor convicted of  involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson will  star in a tell-all TV documentary airing this week, the company  behind the film said today.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo  Chavez urged respect for the legal rights of “Carlos the  Jackal” during his trial in France and saluted him as a  “worthy” fighter for revolutionary causes.

In the wake of a furore over the presence of a Brazilian governor at a PPP/C meeting in Lethem on Sunday, Brazil this afternoon issued a statement reiterating its position of non-intervention and neutrality as it relates to the upcoming elections.

(Trinidad Express) Ian Alleyne’s Crime Watch programme has been suspended until further notice.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Timber multinational Greenheart Group Limited (GGL) denies it wants to cut down all of Suriname’s forests.

(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – “This is sensational news. The Dutch government has fully admitted that there were concrete plans to invade Suriname militarily.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sugar produced from the 2010-2011 sugar cane crop was 139,594 tonnes, an increase over the 122,104 tonnes produced in the 2009-2010 crop.

(Barbados Nation) Over 20 non-national women, who came to Barbados to perform as exotic dancers, were sent packing this past weekend after police and immigration authorities swooped down on a City nightclub.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Sachin Tendulkar became  the first batsman to pass 15,000 test runs as the hosts moved  within 124 runs of victory against West Indies despite losing  both openers on the third day of the first test in front of a  sparse crowd today.

(Barbados Nation) The five-day search for Patrina Lord has ended tragically.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Joe Frazier, the relentless  slugger who became the heavyweight champion of the world and  earned boxing immortality with three epic battles against  Muhammad Ali, died yesterday at age 67, his personal manager  said.

Elizabeth Hinds, the daughter-in-law of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, has requested asylum in the United States and is seeking to regain her three-year-old son after a court granted custody to his father—a custody battle that prompted the PM’s wife last evening to threaten legal action against any attempt to distort the case or discredit her family.

Five Guyanese men along with two Barbadians were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court in Barbados charged with drug importation.

Opposition parties the AFC and APNU are unhappy with recent statements made by the Governor of the State of Roraima, José de Anchieta Junior, at the PPP/C’s Lethem rally on Sunday where and say they will be lodging formal complaints with the Brazilian authorities over the appropriateness of the remarks.

Some 200 jobs could be created in Region Ten next year, with the opening up of a new bauxite mine among with the construction of a kiln and a dust collector, but residents feel it would take an act of God or the waving of a magic wand for the 1,000 jobs promised by the PPP/C to materialize.

Eleven-year-old Lawrence Paul was last evening struck down in front of his Lot 44 Church Street, Patentia, West Coast Demerara home by a hit and run driver, as he was riding to a nearby shop on an errand for his mother.

Should the government decide to have foreign nationals fill senior positions in the Guyana Police Force it would indicate a lack of confidence and contribute to the low morale of police officers, former police commissioner Winston Felix said, adding that the force suffered tremendously when the UK-backed reform project was scrapped.