Guyana News

R&B singer Bobby Wilson, aka Bobby Valentino and Bobby V, will headline a host of talent at the ‘Easter Fest’ concert, slated for Saturday at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

The sewage spill which occurred on Monday afternoon at the corners of Smyth and Princess streets was due to a shifted repair band and not a burst sewerage line, GWI’s Sanitation Manager Rensord Joseph says.

A clothes vendor was yesterday morning denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton when he appeared before her charged with attempted murder and robbery under arms.

Two female labourers were yesterday granted bail in the sum of $80,000 each after they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on a charge of break and enter  and larceny.

A miner and a minibus conductor were both granted bail in the sum of $40,000 each after they appeared yesterday before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accused of stealing clothing valued at over $200,000.

Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo put Patrick Barry, alias ‘Blue’, on a one-year bond after he was found guilty of driving dangerously.

Three soldiers are currently in police custody for the fatal shooting of Colombian Jose Aturo Castillo Balcazar, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.

Yesterday the Food for the Poor presented a quantity of household appliances to several orphanages and churches at its Festival City office.

Fifteen field officers attached to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) have been certified in First Aid after a four-day training session facilitated by the St John’s Ambulance Association.

Project Gold, the Enmore Packaging Plant which is critical to the viability of the sugar industry will be officially commissioned in another few weeks.

AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian authorities’ arrest of a leftist opposition figure overnight suggests that a bill passed by the government to end emergency rule after 48 years will not halt repression, rights campaigners said today.

Four persons are in custody after police yesterday intercepted a car at Republic Park, East Bank Demerara with an unlicensed gun and 60 rounds of ammunition.

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – The United Nations appealed yesterday for a ceasefire in the Libyan city of Misrata, saying at least 20 children had been killed in attacks by besieging government forces on rebel-held parts of the city.

A man who allegedly attempted to murder a 12-year-old boy who had reportedly called him gay was remanded to prison by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her yesterday.

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Post-election riots in northern Nigeria have killed at least 50 people in major cities alone, according to a tally from witnesses and rescue workers, but the overall death toll is believed to be much higher.

Residents of Fort Island during a meeting on Sunday with President Bharrat Jagdeo, who was visiting riverain communities in the Essequibo River, highlighted the need for renovation of the dilapidated Fort Island stelling, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai and a team hosted a two-day meeting in several Region Nine communities recently to address land issues.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A jet carrying first lady Michelle Obama abandoned a landing approach outside Washington to avoid another plane in an apparent mistake by air traffic controllers, US aviation officials said yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said the parapet built at the “road front” at Tuschen is exclusively for vendors but government is “willing to explore options” for taxis, after the two groups had been disagreeing over use of the area.

SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia (Reuters) –They called it the “slap heard around the Arab world”.