Guyana News

In the fight against Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), tobacco use, which is one of the risk factors, is still at an alarmingly high level, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy told the 21st Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human   and Social Development (COHSOD) which opened here on Friday morning.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan  secured election victory yesterday as votes were tallied from  around Nigeria, fuelling anger in the mainly-Muslim strongholds  of rival Muhammadu Buhari.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai and USAID Mission Director Carol Horning lauded the success of the farm established at Hararuni as a model they hope will be replicated in other villages.

TEHRAN,  (Reuters) – An Iranian military commander  has accused German engineering company Siemens of helping the  United States and Israel launch a cyber attack on its nuclear  facilities, Kayhan daily reported yesterday.

AJDABIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels  scrambled to defend their eastern frontline outpost of Ajdabiyah  yesterday after fighting on the coastal highway towards the oil  port of Brega occupied by Muammar Gaddafi’s troops.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud, a team of agriculture officials and Region Two Chairman Ally Baksh visited several communities in the Upper Pomeroon Friday where interactions focused on improving agricultural services to the residents of the various communities.

A number of Amerindian communities on Thursday received donations to the value of $9.8M from the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to help improve the lives of the residents, a press release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Sugarcane grown to power  Brazil’s cars and trucks as an alternative to climate-warming  fossil fuels has a beneficial side effect: it also cools the  local air temperature, scientists reported yesterday.

The West Indies Cricket Board today hailed the accomplishments of former captain Gerry Alexander who died in Jamaica yesterday.

RALEIGH, N.C., (Reuters) – Three days of severe  storms and tornadoes in the southern United States have killed  at least 39 people, with hundreds of homes damaged or  destroyed, officials said today.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Syrians chanted  slogans calling for greater freedom at independence day rallies  today, witnesses said, a day after President Bashar al-Assad  promised to lift emergency law.

The Caribbean Media Corporation yesterday reported that he brother of former Belize prime minister George Price was found murdered in his home.

(Barbados Nation) There will be a turnaround in the West Indies’ cricket fortunes within the next five years.

Officers from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) in a major drug bust on Friday evening seized over 50 pounds of cocaine in Corriverton, Berbice and arrested two persons.

Transnational cooperation is badly needed to fight the narco-trade with police successes in the crime fight being “up and down”, PPP Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar said though he ruled out any enquiry into the post-2002 jailbreak crime wave.

Gun-wielding robbers terrorised an elderly couple on Friday evening before escaping with $4 million and it is suspected that their driver orchestrated the robbery.

The Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara man who was shot and beaten by bandits after they invaded his home last week, yesterday succumbed to his injuries without regaining consciousness.

There was no Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) officer present at the John Fernandes Wharf when the container in which some 122.65 kilos of cocaine was discovered in Jamaica was being loaded, sources say.

A total of $4.2 billion, including $3 billion from Caricom’s Petroleum Fund, was used to pay the first batch of Clico (Guyana) customers who were refunded, a source within the Finance Ministry has said.

Yesterday in the early morning hours, police in Berbice captured wanted man Eddie Williams aka Kevin Williams who had escaped from custody in February and is a murder suspect.