Guyana News

No arrests have been made in two high-profile robberies that occurred over the weekend.

The Guyana Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) on accessing the Global Fund last month held a consultation on HIV at the Cara Lodge Hotel, Georgetown and heard how there had been progress on reducing infections.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique  Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted a housekeeper in a “violent and  sadistic attack” in his hotel suite in Manhattan in May, a  civil lawsuit filed today alleges.

Noel Elliot, who was injured in the Caribbean Airlines crash-landing at the CJIA, is now without his right leg, which was amputated by doctors at a New York City hospital yesterday morning.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Riots spread to new areas of  London today in a third night of violence as hooded youths  torched cars and buildings, hurled missiles at police and looted  shops, in the worst unrest in the British capital for decades.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer who was pursuing a military course in the US was on Thursday slapped with sodomy and child molestation charges and has since appeared before a judge and been placed on a bond  of  US$50,000.

(Trinidad Express) A 47-year-old security officer was shot and killed while on duty at a supermarket in Palmiste, San Fernando on Saturday.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – With four big investments in Suriname planned for the coming three to four years, the country must start preparing now to fully benefit from these financial injections.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is inviting bids for a fire station for the fast-expanding Diamond Housing Scheme.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet’s customers who have booked flights from Guyana to Barbados have been complaining over the past few weeks about “unannounced” changes in schedules, which are leaving them stranded.

(Barbados Nation) The gay community was plunged into mourning Sunday when a contestant in the Miss Galaxy World 2011 contest died in the midst of the show.

(Barbados Nation) Police have launched a massive manhunt for two men who opened fire on patrolling officers in the upscale Navy Gardens, Christ Church neighbourhood late Saturday night.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Thanks to a 2-2 draw against Jamaica last evening, Suriname’s U-23 team has moved to the next round of qualification for next year’s Olympic Games.

Movable panels on the front and rear edges of the wings of the Caribbean Airlines (CAL) jet that overshot the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on July 30 were apparently not extended as required before touchdown and crash investigators believe excessive speed and other suspected lapses in landing procedures caused the accident, the Wall Street Journal reported last night.

-carts off money, jewellery Nine armed robbers made off with about $1 million, six cellular phones, one camera and a quantity of jewellery after terrorizing a shop owner and his family at their Lot 24 Lancaster Avenue, Good Fortuin, West Bank Demerara home.

Bandits yesterday morning launched a bloody attack on a family that had just returned from the Timehri airport, injuring two men before escaping with two bags from a motor car that was about to turn into the family’s Middle Road, La Penitence home.

Chevy Charles Jhingoree, the third person who died in Saturday’s accident at Bottom Arawak, Arimu was returning to work after being summoned by his boss – the owner of the ill-fated truck, relatives said.

The management of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) yesterday said that the institution has a fully supply of medication utilized by patients of the Obstetrics and Gynecological Unit.

The pothole-filled roads in the communities of Grove and Naamryck are causing hardships and residents are calling on the authorities to undertake urgent repairs.

Lindeners are being encouraged to take advantage of the business opportunities in supplying agricultural produce with government looking at food availability in the face of rising prices here.