Guyana News

The Paradise, Bachelors Adventure and Melanie Damishana (PARBAMEL) Community Development Youth Group will host a week of activities to commemorate the 1823 Demerara slave revolt beginning August 20th.

A 22-year-old man accused of stealing his ex-girlfriend’s gold chain was yesterday admitted to $30,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Three young men accused of assaulting another at the Brickdam Police Station were yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $25,000 each when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Indian national, Groopanan Kumar, who admitted to overstaying his time in Guyana was yesterday remanded to prison until today when sentence will be handed down.

Some 145 teachers in several key subject areas are set to graduate from the Education Ministry’s non-graduate certificate progamme offered by the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), the ministry said in a press release Tuesday.

A handyman accused of robbing an RK’s Security Services guard of $145,000 worth of items while being armed with a cutlass was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

The Home Affairs Ministry on Monday  received several pieces of hardware and software from Country Repre-sentative of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Dennis Moses, and  the equipment will be used to gather and accept information on public security in Guyana.

The St. Barnabas Church will be completely demolished by this weekend, according to Errol Cush of Cush Contracting Service.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said he was deeply saddened at news of the passing on Sunday of Sir Paul Reeves, former New Zealand Archbishop and Governor-General.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Four Hezbollah suspects in the  killing of Rafik al-Hariri were linked to the attack largely by  circumstantial evidence gleaned from phone records, according to  an indictment published yesterday after a six-year  investigation which polarised Lebanon.

A mason accused of stealing a woman’s gold chain was on Tuesday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Despite the fact that the public service minimum wage is $32,207, sweepers/cleaners of schools across Guyana only receive $15,800 per month and they are not paid during any of the school holiday breaks.

(Trinidad Express) Farmer Terry Bahal was shot dead as he attempted to escape bandits who ambushed him as he drove into his garage on Tuesday night.

Police today issued a bulletin for Kwame Crosse saying he is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to trafficking in narcotics.

(Jamaica Observer) Joel Chin of VP Records was shot and killed Tuesday night at his home in Stony Hill.

A prisoner was early this morning stabbed by another inmate at the Camp Street jail and had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) where he was admitted.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – Florida police today  said they had thwarted a plot by a 17-year-old to attack his  former school in Tampa after arresting him and discovering  bomb-making material at his home.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez said today he plans to nationalize the gold  sector, including extraction and processing, and use the  production to boost the country’s international reserves.

The battered body of a 64-year-old security guard was this morning found at his work site located opposite Mines Services Limited at Providence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines’ chairman George Nicholas has tendered his resignation from the state-owned national carrier. Minister