Guyana News

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Journalist Nancy Lodik had to spent 2 weeks in the inhumane jailhouse of the Geyersvlijt-precinct before everyone from the President’s Cabinet, the Prosecutor General‘s to Parliament took action.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Iamgold/Rosebel-management is obliged to observe the laws of Suriname.

(Trinidad Guardian) The flight crew of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight BW 523 have returned to T&T.

(Trinidad Express) Ancil “Smokey” Richards, the man accused of murdering Vonetta Haynes-Reyes, 31, and her sons, Malik, eight, and Makasi, four, at their La Horquetta home on July 21, yesterday appeared before an Arima magistrate, charged with the murders.

Thirteen days ago Rozena Razack was struck down on Lamaha Street on her way home from work.

As the campaign for the 2011 general elections heats up, a group called Youths for the PPP is to hold a youth expo on August 11 which will also feature a mega concert and appearances by cricketers.

(Barbados Nation) An elderly man and his son-in-law were killed last night in St George by two masked gunmen.

Two employees of Reunion Manganese Incorporated were on Monday evening  killed and at least two others were injured after a truck they were in toppled at Six Miles Matthew’s Ridge, North West District (NWD).

All systems at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri were up and running when the Caribbean Airlines (CAL) jet crashed there early Saturday says veteran pilot Gerry Goveia who suggested that pilot error or the plane itself is likely the cause of the accident.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of Motilall Persaud called ‘Brother Martin’, a pastor of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, proved that he died from multiple incised wounds.

One of the survivors of Saturday’s plane crash recalled seeing at least four fire-fighters looking down at her and the others from the edge of the runway, but says they offered no help as more that 150 screaming passengers scrambled to exit the smoking wreckage.

There has been a shortage of chicken and eggs in recent weeks, but producers expect the situation to be back to normal by next month.

The Mayor and City Council (MCC) says garbage contractors again withdrew their services from the city on Monday because of a delay in payment; however, it will soon restart its own garbage collection with two compactor trucks it recently procured.

Brazilian businessman Rodrigo de Paula says that he was clueless that presidential guards were among the group of men hired to “conduct a peaceful operation” to remove a conveyor to prevent the illegal use of the Guyana Sandport Inc.

Efforts to locate Haimchand Manram, who went missing in Monday’s boat mishap in the Mazaruni River, have been unsuccessful.

A part-time minibus conductor was early yesterday morning found dead in a trench near his home.

The man who confessed to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) to supplying a Guyanese woman with cocaine, which she was busted with in the US last week, has been released from custody on bail as the investigation continues.

The Council of Management of the Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) has announced the launch of its 2011 programme to monitor the upcoming National and Regional Elections.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Ltd says that there have been forty attacks on its cables in 90 days, the latest being yesterday morning in Better Hope South, ECD.

The Burnham Foundation is hosting a public symposium on the late president’s legacy in the International Year for Peoples of African Descent on Friday at the St Stanislaus auditorium.