Guyana News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s Senate approved  Garry Conille as prime minister yesterday, endorsing President  Michel Martelly’s third nominee for the post in a move many  hope will boost reconstruction efforts in the  earthquake-ravaged nation.

A suspected bandit and a hostage drowned Sunday in the Mazaruni River after a getaway boat capsized following a stunning raid by an armed gang on a Puruni mining camp, during which three Brazilians were shot and several other persons robbed and beaten.

The six Guyanese men, who were slapped with ten charges each after they were found aboard a Guyanese cargo boat with weapons and drugs in St.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that drug traffickers including Roger Khan have managed to elude capture because of the lack of evidence.

After deliberating for  almost two hours, the mixed  jury  in the Berbice Assizes  returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty in favour of Rooplall Abrahim, called Vijay, who was on trial for the murder of a 13-year-old girl three years ago when he was just sixteen-years-old.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday denied that the suspension of CN Sharma’s broadcast licence was related to the upcoming general elections saying that timing never crossed his mind and that it was the station’s Programme Manager Savitree Sharma who suggested four months.

Avon Guyana is inviting 100 women with low incomes and no medical insurance, and whose risk of developing cancer is high to a free breast cancer screening and mammogram test, as part of its activities for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The trial of Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ is to commence today before Justice Winston Patterson five years after 34-year-old Chandrapaul Persaud was murdered.

A call is out for Region 10 chairman Mortimer Mingo to resign his  position as a representative of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on the grounds that his judgement is questionable over the offer of a lot at Pradoville 2.

Commissioners of Police or their representatives from several Caribbean countries are expected to participate in a regional strategy session on countering gang violence.

When eight-year-old Renee Bisnauth of Cropper Primary School walked on the stage at the National Cultural Centre for the National Spelling Bee Competition she was confident she would emerge a winner.

Two men who allegedly robbed a woman of items which amounted to $15,000 in value were  yesterday placed on $80,000 bail each after they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is expected to announce the date for the upcoming regional and general elections within the next week.

The administration has pumped significant subsidies into the bauxite industry to safeguard the jobs of many, President Bharrat Jagdeo argued yesterday.

Reporters Without Borders yesterday condemned President Bharrat Jagdeo’s order suspending broadcasting by CNS Channel Six for four months from 30 September.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he does not see presidential guards moonlighting as an issue once they do not work for persons of a questionable character.

Police yesterday revealed that the fisherman who it was alleged had been kidnapped after he went missing on Friday was found on Monday night on a dam at Farm Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara.

A 24-year-old man died on Saturday after his head was crushed by a steel pipe which he was carrying while on duty at Buck Hall in the north west.

A 20-year-old miner  died on the spot after a tree fell on him in the mining areas aback Port Kaituma in the North West District on Monday.

Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde says the union has had to defend its stance and keep hope alive in a “hostile environment” in which “the minimum wage being offered to public servants is not only unrealistic but a blatant disrespect and insult for their hard work.”