Guyana News

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Garret FitzGerald, Ireland’s most popular elder statesman who twice served as prime minister and played a crucial role in paving the way for peace in Northern Ireland, has died at the age of 85, his family said Thursday.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Al Qaeda released a posthumous audio recording by Osama bin Laden in which he praised revolutions sweeping through several Arab countries, and called for more Muslim “tyrants” to be toppled.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Dominique Strauss-Kahn has  resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund, saying he  needs to devote all his energy to fight charges that he sexually  assaulted a hotel maid.

The opposition parties have written the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) requesting a searchable electronic preliminary list of electors (PLE), which they say will aid the ongoing Claims and Objections process.

A post-mortem examination (PME) yesterday revealed that former boxer Linden Mortley died as a result of a gunshot injury to the head.

Acting Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region 2 Sunil Singh and the region’s Superintendent of Works and Engineer are to reappear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on May 30, after failing to adequately provide details on $15.976M overpaid to contractors during the period 2004 to 2008.

Another taxi driver has been charged over the February 14 $4.7M Middle Street hold-up.

A Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) family got the shock of their lives yesterday morning when a demolition crew attached to the Public Works Ministry dismantled their shop in the pouring rain.

The governments of Guyana and Norway recently took “significant action” to accelerate the disbursement of funds from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) after expressing their belief that the intermediation of GRIF funds is taking longer than it should, the Office of Climate Change announced Tuesday.

The suspected trunker who was shot several times by the owner of the vehicle he was found sitting in, yesterday said that he was in the area looking for a job and had stopped to admire himself in the vehicle’s mirror.

The Department of Software Services of the University of Guyana is working to have the library facilities at the university’s two campuses fully automated by the end of this year.

A late night visit to a friend ended on a sad note for a 38-year-old man after he was shot and badly beaten by four men who questioned his presence in the Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara area before accusing him of being a thief.

Cabinet has cleared a US$336,355 (equivalent to $68.5M) contract for the development of a File Document Management System for the Supreme Court Registry which will see the records and proceedings in the High Court being done electronically.

Students, history lovers and Guyanese on the whole will now be able to experience fragments of the Columbus era, as well as gain some insightful knowledge on Guyana’s heritage at the Map Room situated at the Guyana National Museum.

A brother who assaulted and used  threatening behaviour, abusive and threatening language to his sister was yesterday fined $15,000 and bonded to keep the peace for two years after his sister begged the magistrate for lenience on his behalf.

Twenty-one 500-gallon water tanks were on Monday delivered to River’s View in Region Seven, where the river water normally used by residents has been contaminated due to mining activities over several years.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon said yesterday that the health situation of Police Commissioner Henry Greene is a private matter and in that regard the administration cannot intrude on his privacy.

Up to 2007 Guyana’s roadways remained the deadliest in the Caribbean region averaging almost 20 casualties per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) list of countries with the most traffic casualties.

Regional integration will be the central focus of a CARICOM Heads of Government retreat set for this weekend in Guyana, at a Teperu/Itabu Mazaruni River location.

The PNCR says it will use all legitimate means to ensure the constitutional rights of Guyanese to Freedom of Expression, particularly in this election year.