Guyana News

The parents of the 12-year-old boy of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, who attempted to hang himself, have been taken into custody.

Sukhdai Ramkilaum who was found murdered in her home was buried yesterday even as the police continue their search for the perpetrator/s of this gruesome crime.

A man was killed yesterday when the wheels of a vehicle he was travelling in crushed his legs while on the Puruni trail, Middle Mazaruni.

Contracts were signed by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday  to have work started on 10 projects that form part of the 2011 programme in which a total of $489,916,429 is being invested.

A 42-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton after he appeared on three different charges, one of which was obtaining money by false pretence.

MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – The United States has started using armed drones against Muammar Gaddafi’s troops, who battled rebels at close quarters on the streets of Misrata, despite Western threats to step up a month-old air war.

An 18-year-old female was yesterday placed on $80,000 bail after she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton for allegedly forging a CXC certificate in order to obtain employment.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The left-leaning New Democratic Party has exploded from an also-ran in Canada’s election campaign to a potential spoiler that could change the Canadian balance of power.

A 20-year-old Guyanese remand prisoner was yesterday jailed for three months wounding a fellow female inmate who caught her having sex with a male prisoner.

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Barely audible above the chants of “traitor”, an Israeli actress who lost a leg in a Palestinian attack read out yesterday a declaration by Israeli intellectuals endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s President-elect Michel Martelly has a popular mandate and U.S.

A pastry vendor was on Tuesday placed on $35,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accused of stealing a woman’s gold chain.

NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – Go ahead. Have that second cup of coffee — or maybe even a third.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters Life!) – A Malaysian state’s move to send 57 schoolboys with “effeminate tendencies” to a boot camp aimed at counselling them on masculine behaviour has angered rights groups in the Southeast Asian country.

In light of Easter kite flying activities on Monday, certain roads in Georgetown will be closed to vehicular traffic.

GROS ISLET, St.Lucia,  (Reuters) – Leg spinner Devendra Bishoo claimed four wickets as the new-look West Indies beat Pakistan by seven runs in their Twenty20 international today.

Onan Orlando Thom of Old England, Upper Demerara, for whom a wanted bulletin was issued on March 11, 2011, for questioning in relation to abduction and robbery under arms, surrendered to the police at about 1500h today, a police release said.

GDF Lance Corporal Kurt Belgrave, 23 years of Cemetery Road, Lodge, Georgetown, today appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton charged with manslaughter committed on Colombian national Jose Arturo Castello Balcazar.

(Jamaica Gleaner) ‘I was forced to make this decision based on what was happening around me.”

A 20-year-old Guyanese remand prisoner was yesterday jailed for three months wounding a fellow female inmate who caught her having sex with a male prisoner.