Guyana News

As the world observes the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, which claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people, Guyanese both home and abroad will be mourning their loved ones.

By Marcelle Thomas Residents along the East Bank Demerara from Diamond to Prospect are complaining about the stench emanating from the canal parallel to the roadway, which they say is unbearable and causes them much discomfort.

The Government of Guyana in early 2006 believed that the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) was planning to disrupt the country with the aid of the “Buxton resistance group” according to former US Ambassador Roland Bullen.

Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh recently handed over a collection of the latest law books and reports to the library at the High Court in New Amsterdam.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) is still mulling the possibility of hosting a presidential debate ahead of the general elections this year and has been meeting other interested parties on the matter.

The Joint United Nations Team on AIDS in Guyana has congratulated the Special Select Committee of Parliament on the Criminal Responsibility of HIV Infected Individuals for choosing not to make the transmission of HIV a criminal act.

More than a month after an assistant pastor was brutally stabbed in an apparent robbery gone wrong, police are no closer to solving the crime even after arresting and questioning a number of persons.

Guyanese Dr Cary Fraser was installed as President of the University of Belize, Belmopan, on August 24 last.

Having one’s child die in one’s arms is every parent’s worst nightmare.

Almost five months after he went missing, ex-soldier Jeffrey Jones’ sister and other relatives are still desperately searching for him.

Police last Friday arrested a man following investigations into the theft of a quantity of raw gold from a business place at Mahdia, Region Eight.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said Cabinet has approved contracts in the agriculture, education, security, health and infrastructure sectors.

The Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCCI) said 27 units of blood were collected when it hosted its annual blood drive at the 41st Corriverton Town Day.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of fisherman Rajhu Persaud, 20 years of Jib, Essequibo Coast, whose body was found at about 0700h today at the sea shore at Paradise, Essequibo Coast, with suspected marks of violence.

In a 2009 cable to Washington, then US Ambassador  John Melvin Jones strongly questioned President Bharrat Jagdeo’s view that enough was being done by Guyana to fight drugs and he was particularly scathing about the role of Dr Roger Luncheon in what he described as the disembowelling of the UK security reform programme.

(Trinidad Express) A 31-year-old San Juan man, who is paralysed from the waist down, was chopped to death at his home on Thursday after he reportedly arranged to have a fellow resident beaten and robbed as he attempted to purchase drugs from him.

(Trinidad Express) Jack Warner has accused FIFA of “devastating lives” and damaging football in the Caribbean in an attempt to clean up their image.

The police today said that during investigations into a report of simple larceny of a quantity of raw gold from a business place at Mahdia, and as a result of images viewed on a CCTV recording, at about 2300h last night they arrested a suspect at Mahdia and on checking a haversack in his possession found an unlicensed .32 Taurus revolver with four rounds.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2230h.

STONE TOWN, Zanzibar, (Reuters) – At least 107  people drowned when a ferry capsized in rough waters off east  Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island, a doctor said  today, the worst disaster in the archipelago’s recent  history.