Guyana News

Barama Company Limited is set to reopen its Land of Canaan operation next month and efforts are to be made by the government to monitor production levels to ensure that this will surpass what had obtained before the closure.

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) presented certificates to 36 public servants who participated in an intense training session aimed at boosting their capacity on the job.

The winners of the seventh Secondary Schools Drama Festival were honoured Friday at a special ceremony convened by the Ministry of Education Unit of Allied Arts at the Theatre Guild Playhouse.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a  roadmap for ending the civil war in Libya, South African  President Jacob Zuma said after leading a delegation of African  leaders at talks in Tripoli.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Left-wing nationalist Ollanta  Humala won the first round of Peru’s presidential election yesterday and looked set to face rightist Keiko Fujimori in what  could be a bruising run-off in June, an unofficial quick count of  ballots showed.

SANAA/RIYADH, (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Ali  Abdullah Saleh should hand over power to his vice president and  allow the opposition to lead a transition government that would  prepare new elections, Gulf Arab countries said yesterday.

ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – U.N. and French helicopters  attacked forces loyal to incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent  Gbagbo late into last night, damaging the presidential  residence and destroying heavy weapons that U.N.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Irregular forces loyal to Syrian  President Bashar al-Assad fired at a group of people guarding a  mosque in Banias yesterday, two witnesses said, after  pro-democracy unrest flared in the conservative coastal city.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s public prosecutor yesterday summoned Hosni Mubarak as part of probes into the killing  of protesters and the embezzlement of public funds, but the  ousted former president said allegations against him of  wrongdoing were lies.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Enayatullah Balegh is a  professor at Kabul University and preaches on Fridays in the  largest mosque in central Kabul, where he advocates jihad, or  holy war, against foreigners who desecrate Islam.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a  roadmap for ending the civil war in Libya, South African  President Jacob Zuma said after leading a delegation of African  leaders at talks in Tripoli.

(Jamaica Observer) The 27-year-old Jamaican woman who has accused officers of the Royal Barbados Police Force of rape and sexual assault has given a graphic and horrific account of the treatment she said was meted out to her after she was jailed in that country two months ago for drug smuggling.

(Trinidad Express) There are reports of people from small Caribbean islands being held as virtual slaves in homes in Trinidad, said Foreign Affairs Minister Surujrattan Rambachan.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) plans to make major cuts in the number of former Air Jamaica workers who now service operations in Jamaica.

(Barbados Nation) Opposition Leader Owen Arthur is warning that the Shanique Myrie incident must not be allowed to tarnish relations between Barbados and Jamaica.

A stormy relationship between a Timehri couple ended tragically yesterday morning when a man chopped his former reputed wife to death in front of one of their three children. 

Government has defended the decision to remove Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks from wharves, saying that the handing over its responsibilities to personnel from the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) was a “calculated risk” that was based on restructuring.

For forty-seven-year-old Mortlyn Benjamin it is certainly a ‘hard knock life’ and while she may have given up hope of ever finding betterment for herself, she has a burning desire for her children to experience what it is “to live a better life than this.”

‘Executions’ are the most difficult murders for police to solve as the perpetrators often cover their tracks so well that investigators have little chance of finding them.

Even as police in the E and F Division are battling to solve a number of murders since the start of the year, yet another miner has been killed, this time at Pamela Backdam, Mahdia.