Guyana News

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Infuriated by India’s  humiliating 4-0 series defeat in England, the local media lashed  out at the cricket board today, accusing the governing body  of pursuing riches instead of developing the test team.

A Block 20  Enmore/Haslington New Scheme, East Coast Demerara,   couple and a 15-year-old boy were yesterday jointly charged with cocaine trafficking.

Forest concessions that are under- or unutilized may be reallocated to facilitate increased log production, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud told sector representatives yesterday.

Shilpa Shetty was never advertised to dance at last Saturday’s Jamzone Bollywood Night Super Concert, says event spokesman Joel Ghansham.

Authorities in Suriname have been enlisted in efforts to locate five missing Berbice fishermen.

Davia Chambers of Trinidad and Tobago bested 10 other young women to walk away with the Miss Jamzone International pageant crown at the Splashmins Fun Park and Resort, on Sunday evening.

Before  dying, miner Rafael Khan had revealed the name of the person who stabbed him, a relative said.

There is some evidence in the Karen Kerr shooting matter and it will be up to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to decide if it is sufficient to charge the suspect, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.

Residents, business people and passers-by watched helplessly yesterday as a young man was severely chopped about his body by a friend shortly after the start of business in the shopping centre at Mackenzie, Linden.

The post-mortem examination (PME) performed on the body of pharmacist Harold Rachpaul yesterday revealed that he died from asphyxiation.

A Delta Airlines flight which departed the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri for New York yesterday morning was diverted to San Juan in Puerto Rico some three hours later for an emergency landing.

A man is now a patient under guard at the Georgetown Hospital after he was reportedly shot during an attempt to break into the home and business of a Strathspey, East Coast Demerara businessman on Sunday.

A contract valued over $117M was signed on Friday for the rehabilitation of 4.04 kilometres or 12 roads in Cornelia Ida/Stewartville, Region Three, the Government Information Agency (GINA) stated in a press release.

Guyana and Canada will cooperate to introduce cyanide leaching technology to improve gold recovery in the medium-scale mining sector here.

The third CARICOM-SICA Summit in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Friday agreed to promote coordinated initiatives between their sub-regional institutions to combat transnational organized crime, according to a  copy of the joint declaration from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.

Every healthcare facility, government and private, will now have a reminder of the zero tolerance for stigma or discrimination to anyone seeking health treatment, including protection from prejudice on the basis of sexual orientation.

The  Secondary Competency Certificate Programme (SCCP) is to be introduced in 16 more schools from September in a move by the Ministry of Education to stem school drop-outs and ensure secondary school students are adequately prepared for the world of work.

Children living with type 1 diabetes and their care-givers last weekend attended a two-day camp at Splashmin’s camping ground, along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

Deston Bailey, 26, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton on the charges that he broke into his father’s house and damaged a vehicle windshield and window.

A taxi driver accused of using an unlicensed handheld radio set for wireless telegraph was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $60,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.