Guyana News

SUNDVOLLEN, Norway, (Reuters) – Norwegian police  searched for more victims today after a suspected  right-wing zealot killed at least 92 people in a shooting spree  and bomb attack that have traumatised a once-placid country.

The level of bilateral trade between Guyana and Brazil is below expectations, even after the opening of the Takutu Bridge, which had been expected to stimulate growth.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has sent condolences to the Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg, following yesterday’s bomb attacks in the city of Oslo and the killing of civilians on Utøya Island.

Residents of Canefield, East Canje are grateful for the new $104M well station that was commissioned in the area on Wednesday, but say the water flowing from it is “not fit for consumption.”

Guyana still has much to do in lowering infant and maternal mortality rates and high priority should be placed on strengthening the midwifery workforce, the State of the World’s Midwifery Report has said.

The Port Kaituma Hospital has been plagued by constant blackouts over the past few weeks owing to a shortage of fuel, but Regional Chairman Fermin Singh says plans are in place to rectify the situation.

The University of Guyana (UG) Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) yesterday signed an agreement that will see the management and monitoring of Acacia trees at Mahdia, in Region Eight.

Eyebrows are likely to be raised by programming guidelines under the proposed broadcasting bill, which also says no one person will be able to control more than 25% of the broadcasting industry.

As the 2011 general elections approach, the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) General Secretary says now is the time for a government of national unity.

Ramoutar Sidnauth was on Monday charged with the murder of his wife of 30 years, whom he allegedly beat and left to die.

Charles Rawlins, who was accused of the March 1, 2010 fatal stabbing of his wife Okemo Todd, was recently discharged of the capital offense.

One of the victims of Thursday evening’s Lamaha Street accident, Rozena Razack, is now a patient of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) yesterday urged concerned citizens to make their voices heard on animal abuse, saying that it needs to be placed under the national spotlight for it to be stamped out.

The baby that was recently found at the Merriman’s Mall was yesterday discharged from the Neonatal Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), and doctors said the child is in excellent health.

Two men, accused of trafficking a quantity of cocaine and cannabis at the Five Star Backdam North West District (NWD), were yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Regan Colinet, the truck driver who struck down and killed Police Constable Delian Forde at Bartica on Sunday, was charged in the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on Thursday and released on $350,000 bail.

Police were up to late last evening investigating a shooting at St Lucia Hill, Tiger Creek, Mahdia, where a Corriverton man was shot in the buttocks.

A Crown’s Pot Lemonade employee was yesterday struck down and dragged some 20 feet while unloading cases of lemonade from the company truck.

The Guyana International Relief Organisation (GIRO) and the Greenheart Medical University (GMU) recently organised blood donation drives, in response to the Ministry of Health’s urgent plea for blood, after stocks ran low.

Three suspects in Monday’s invasion of a mining camp at Five Star Backdam, North West District, during which a Brazilian man was shot and injured, were found hiding in a building in the area by police.