Guyana News

The Department of Education in New Amsterdam is investigating an incident at the Central Corentyne Secondary School involving a teacher and a student, in which a student sustained a head injury that required three stitches.

Hundreds of Guyanese joined the rest of their brothers and sisters across the region in observing Caribbean Wellness Day last Saturday when they gave themselves a check-up or got a massage at a health awareness fair.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted a man $100,000 bail when he on Friday appeared in court charged with stealing a chain of similar value.

The body of an unidentified elderly male was yesterday discovered floating in the Lamaha Canal aback of D’Urban Backlands Squatting Area.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer accused of the June 19 assault on female DJ Nerissa Pearson was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $20,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

A 90-year-old security guard was found dead yesterday morning aback the consumers’ goods complex at Linden where he had been on night duty.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded to prison a Norton Street man accused of larceny, when he on Friday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Sao Paulo (Reuters) – Miss Angola Leila Lopes, a business  student from the town of Benguela in her home country, was  crowned Miss Universe yesterday after dazzling a panel of  judges with her beauty and impressing them with her brain.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic  outplayed Spain’s Rafa Nadal to win the U.S.

US Ambassador David Robinson told Washington in 2007 that international observers were increasingly uneasy about the “autocratic” tendencies of President Bharrat Jagdeo and his willingness to hit critics – like Stabroek News – where it hurts.

A Brazilian woman was found murdered at Takutu Backdam, Region Eight on Saturday night and a man is in police custody assisting with investigations.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – Former U.S. Vice President  Al Gore will renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of  the link between climate change and extreme weather events this  week in a 24-hour global multi-media event.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname must soon take measures to regulate emerging sex tourism.

(De Ware Tijd) NIEUW NICKERIE – Millers/processors have unilaterally fixed the purchasing price for a 79-kilo bale of paddy at SRD 77.50.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is moving to cross the final parliamentary hurdle in order to issue payments to Clico policyholders as Finance Minister Winston Dookeran is expected to present two bills for debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

A ninety-year-old security guard was today found dead at the back of the consumers’ goods complex were he was on night duty.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – There is no homophobia behind the refusal of Suriname’s government to implement recommendations by the United Nations (UN) on gay rights.

PARIS, (Reuters) –  Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by police  on Monday over a complaint of attempted rape, which was filed  after his May arrest in New York in a separate sex assault case.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – More than 100 people were burnt  to death and a similar number were taken to hospital after a  petrol fire ignited by a cigarette butt broke out in a densely  populated slum in the Kenyan capital, local media said today.

The police are investigating the deaths of two Corentyne fishers over the weekend after they were set alight by a colleague while fishing off the foreshore at Albion on Tuesday evening.