Guyana News

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said today.

Former Office of the President staffer Dr Randy Persaud was on Friday evening arrested by members of the New York Police Department (NYPD), following an incident outside Club Tobago in Queens, New York, where President Bharrat Jagdeo and PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar were meeting with supporters.

Lindener Wenda Hutson  numbers among the good Samaritans who have responded to the plight of the sick and needy in her community and has taken the initiative, along with others, to have a psychiatric unit established in the mining town.

Canadian Immigration Consultant Balwant Persaud was yesterday morning taken into police custody for questioning in relation to his recent case involving the Canadian couple that successfully applied for refugee status in Canada.  

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has expressed concern over what it says is “the growing exclusion of groups” from having a voice in national decision-making in matters that impact their lives.

Executive Member of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) Tacuma Ogunseye has accused Eric Phillips, also an Executive Member of the organization, of revising a statement approved by the executive responding to controversial statements he recently made.

Businessman Ramdat Balkarran, who was shot in the abdomen on Friday by one of two men who invaded his Good Hope home in a robbery attack, was up to press time slowly recuperating in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on supporters in the United States to assist government in tracking down a man who he said is wanted by police here and was involved in a series of “heinous crimes” in this country.

Kenford King, one of the passengers who were in the bus which struck down and killed Jagdeo Ramnarine on the Strathspey Public Road early Friday morning, is in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing a broken leg.

The housing ministry is aiming to have areas such as Plastic City, Container City, West Ruimveldt and East Ruimveldt regularized to allow Diamond, Grove, Herstelling and a number of areas in Linden to benefit from sea defence works, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The new man at the helm of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) from today will be Jamaica national William Warren Smith, PhD.

The E Ward, where I spent the next nine days, I have nicknamed the “estrogen” ward; it has no walls, four rows of beds and full of women in transition.

Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana will in August take part in an Inter-Guiana Cultural Festival.

The consortium that came up dry in the Apoteri K-2 exploratory oil well here sunk US$15 million into that venture, according to a report in the online edition of the oil and gas journal, Upstream.

Works on the reconstruction of the Queenstown Jama Masjid, which was dismantled in early 2007, are scheduled to recommence within two months, according to Chairman of the Building Committee Sattaur Gafoor.

‘Debate what? Debate what happened 28 years ago? What Burnham did?

Government is currently drafting a management plan for the Kaieteur National Park (KNP) along with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Environmental Protection Agency which will include measures for conservation and community involvement.

The Ministry of Labour Human Services and Social Security hosted an outreach exercise at the Sans Souci Primary School in Wakenaam, aimed at informing residents of its available services.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh said government has made great strides in bridging the “domestic digital divide” by creating access to computers and the internet for citizens countrywide, at a recent Information Technology (IT) graduation ceremony held at the Watooka Club in Region 10.

Craig resident Dawn Jarvis was awakened on Friday morning by shouts from neighbours alerting her that a storeroom in front of her yard was on fire.