Guyana News

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Gold rallied above $1,500 an  ounce for the first time yesterday, extending this week’s  record run as investors hedged growing inflation risks and  bought into a broad commodities rally as the dollar slumped.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Angry asylum-seekers torched an  immigration detention centre in Sydney yesterday, burning part  of it to the ground after Australian authorities denied some of  their requests for refuge, local media reported.

The Christian community is hosting a Good Friday service, ‘Atonement 2011,’ tomorrow in the Public Buildings compound.

(Trinidad Guardian) REDJet’s plans to fly from T&T on May 8 are in trouble.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 2200h yesterday at Portuguese Quarters, Corentyne, Berbice, during which Shaho Ibrahim of Bush Lot Village, Corentyne, was attacked

(Go Jamaica) The national security minister Senator Dwight Nelson is reporting that 14 human trafficking victims have been rescued by Jamaican authorities in the past six months.

The partly nude body of a 68-year-old woman was yesterday afternoon discovered with her throat slit, in a bedroom in her home.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – With the government’s new housing programmes, free houses will not be made available anymore.

The High Court has ratified the appointment of Richard Surage as judicial manager of the St.

The West Indies Cricket Board today said that former West Indies Captain and opening batsman Chris Gayle has made himself unavailable for the Pakistan series in favour of playing in the lucrative Indian Premier League.

Repairs to a section of the Good Hope Stelling that faltered on Monday afternoon were expected to be completed late yesterday afternoon.

An East Bank contractor died in a highway crash yesterday after the vehicle he was travelling in had a blow-out and slammed into a curb.

A Bank of Guyana employee died after her motorcycle collided with a Route 42 minibus on Mandela Avenue early yesterday morning.

Guyanese visiting from overseas have been the target of armed bandits three times this year and according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud the situation is not alarming.

Several private sugar cane farmers yesterday morning were told that they will benefit from a $600 million package which the authorities have made available in the form of support to them.

Four men are wanted by police for questioning in relation to break and enter and larceny.

The consortium that recently completed drilling an exploratory oil well in the Rupununi has applied for permission to begin drilling another but the delay in releasing results of the first well has seen Canacol Energy Inc’s stock drop towards the lowest closing price in seven months.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) plans to use its annual government subvention to restore City Hall, but Mayor Hamilton Green says he is still awaiting word from experts he consulted before works can begin.

The British High Commis-sion, in an effort to support counselling services, has provided the Help & Shelter with funding.

Guyanese Jimmy Smith has been appointed the new Director General of the Inter-national Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi Kenya.