Guyana News

The suspect in the murder of miner Rafel Khan is yet to be captured by police.

The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center, of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, which has provided support services to seven of the nine HIV care and treatment sites throughout Guyana, will end its activities here at the end of next month.

The Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Development Authority (MMA/ADA) has started construction of a section of the Bellamy canal and is also simultaneously constructing a sea dam from the excavated material.

A husband and wife accused of assaulting each other appeared yesterday before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The search for the five missing Berbice fishermen continued yesterday but without any clues as to their whereabouts or what may have happened to them.

A 41-year-old man accused of breaking into another’s house and stealing items totalling $159,000 was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the interim Secretary General of the Andean Community (CAN), Adalid Contreras Baspineiro, have reaffirmed the importance for the two organizations to coordinate  efforts to fulfill their respective foundational objectives.

A teenager accused of breaking into a woman’s house and stealing her laptop computer was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

(Trinidad Express) As legal sources raised doubt over the validity of the Emergency Powers Curfew Order 2011 yesterday, the Police Service Commission (PSC) moved to remedy a potential problem by appointing Stephen Williams as acting Police Commissioner.

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Libyan rebels sacked Muammar  Gaddafi’s Tripoli bastion, seizing weapons and smashing symbols  of a 42-year dictatorship whose demise will transform Libya and  send a warning to other Arab autocrats facing popular uprisings.

A woman is dead after she was stabbed in the heart allegedly by her reputed husband during a drunken quarrel at their Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara home, late this afternoon.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A strong earthquake struck  the U.S. East Coast and was felt as far away as Canada today, shaking buildings in many cities, delaying flights and  trains and sending thousands of frightened workers into the  streets.

  Chutney singer Mahendra Ramkellawan was today remanded to prison after he was charged with assaulting his wife.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Toxicology tests showed there  were no illegal substances in British singer Amy Winehouse’s  system when she died last month aged 27, her spokesman said today.

Guyanese Francis Vieira, a pilot of the now-defunct luxury charter company Platinum Jet Management, was on Monday sentenced to six months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud charter customers and brokers using interstate wires and to impede and obstruct the FAA, a release from the Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey has said.

Guyana today said it supported the move by Trinidad and Tobago to institute a limited state of emergency to deal with crime.

(Barbados Nation) Cleared. More than 250 used vehicles passed the test Sunday when health authorities carried out inspections for any signs of radiation at the Bridgetown Port.

A Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) Cessna Caravan careened off the runway at the Mabaruma airstrip in Region One early this morning after the aircraft suffered an apparent brake failure.

(Barbados Nation) Masses of sargassum, a brown seaweed that has been washing up on Barbados’ shores within recent weeks, could pose a threat to the vital tourism industry and sea creatures such as turtles.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Office of the President has started an inquiry into possible irregularities in the judiciary.