Guyana News

GUATEMALA CITY, July 9 (Reuters) – Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, one of the stars of Latin American folk music, was shot dead in Guatemala City early today when gunmen riddled his car with bullets, authorities said.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Kirk Edwards hit a century on his test debut  as West Indies reached 224 for six on the fourth day of the  third and final test against India in Dominica today.

Seven persons are homeless after an early afternoon fire gutted a Block 22 Wismar, Linden house today.

KABUL, (Reuters) – New U.S. Defense Secretary Leon  Panetta arrived in Afghanistan today, saying he believed  the strategic defeat of al Qaeda was within reach if the United  States could kill or capture up to 20 remaining leaders of the  core group and its affiliates.

PARAMARIBO – “Water is the gold of the future, not gold,” says Natural Resources (NH) Minister Jim Hok.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – To Jozef Brahim, former director of De Surinaamsche Bank (DSB), the disappearance of a file he had put into the bank’s money vault is “a big mystery”.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In a letter to the Surinamese Football League (SVB), Marc Cavaliero, secretary of FIFA’s ethics committee, has asked for the return of the US$ 40,000 paid by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to representatives of the SVB and other members of the CFU.

President  Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said he is hoping that construction of the Marriott Hotel will start within the next two to three months as the government  is about to enter into a public/private partnership with the Zublin Group in Grenada, Jagdeo, during a news conference yesterday at the Office of the President, said that following a public tender two bids were received and the contract awarded to the lower bidder. He

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said the government is not abusing state resources in promoting the candidacy of Donald Ramotar, and that as head of state he is free to hire whoever he wants.

In light of the recent spike in pirate attacks on fisher folks, PNCR presidential candidate David Granger has expressed the party’s “distress” at the manner in which the scourge is being addressed by the authorities.

Butcher Shawn Sooklall, who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend Tricia Welch in July 2006, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by Justice Roxane George.

Abdul Azeem Haniff, who was found dead in his septic tank on Thursday, was strangled to death, a post-mortem examination yesterday confirmed.

The bid by a former member of the Guyana Defence Force Coastguard to be granted refugee status in Canada—on the claim that his life was threatened after he was part of a team that made a cocaine bust—was quashed late last month, when a judge dismissed his application to have a removal decision reversed.

Guyana will not be apologising to Nation of Islam member, Akbar Muhammad for his recent arrest and detention on suspicion of involvement in drugs and terrorism here, since the police were acting on intelligence, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.

A fire yesterday at Vreed-en-Hoop has left two people homeless. The fire occurred at around 7:45am at Lot 36 New Road,

Help & Shelter, which for years has been provided critical services to victims of domestic violence, is in need of urgent funding to continue its public education programme and cover its administration costs, its Administrator Margaret Kertzious has said.

A popular upper East Coast Demerara businessman was yesterday morning found dead in his bed, leaving relatives and friends in shock.

President Bharrat Jagdeo pledged $30M to spur the growth of locally produced films, minutes after the premiere of eight short films financed under a project to support a film industry here.

The teenager accused of murdering former youth footballer Daxton Parks with an arrow and bow was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was arraigned on the capital charge before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Prison Officer Orlando Jaundoo, who was remanded to prison following a charge of aiding and abetting in the escape of a prisoner, has been granted $200,000 bail by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang.