Guyana News

Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Saturday afternoon intercepted a small parcel, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, destined for Canada with 1.3 kilos of cocaine.

ROME, (Reuters) – U.S. forces attacked three Libyan ships, including a coast guard vessel, to stop them firing indiscriminately at merchant ships in the port of Misrata, military officials said today.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda’s government said today it had seized control of Libya’s majority stake in Uganda Telecom to comply with U.N.

DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accepted the resignation of the government today, Syrian state television said.

A prisoner was attacked with a piece of wood by a fellow inmate inside the Georgetown Prison yesterday, renewing concerns about weapons in the facility.

The St Martin News Network says that the authorities on the island have arrested at least seven Guyanese nationals as suspects in a crime ring involved in selling fake Guyanese passports, Dutch residency papers and identification cards.

The City Council approved a motion for city spokesman Royston King to perform the duties of Town Clerk at a statutory meeting yesterday, where Mayor Hamilton Green declined to vote.

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion (GuySuCo) Paul Bhim says the industry will not revise its first crop target after close to three weeks of down time due to the weather, but the crop would be extended to May.

A Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara businessman shot a suspected burglar who he found in his yard with a knife early yesterday morning.

A family of three is homeless and millions of dollars are lost in a fire this morning, suspected to be electrical in origin, which destroyed a two-storey building that also housed a store at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara.

Bids for the construction of the much-debated Hope Canal are expected to be opened next Tuesday, in the boardroom of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NP&TAB).

A workshop opened yesterday to compile a regional disaster and preparedness plan for the 10 administrative regions.

A 30-year-old vendor was yesterday refused bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on seven different charges, including trafficking in narcotics and possession of unlicensed firearms.

A Siberia/Old England, Linden family was yesterday attacked by a lone gunman and members now fear for their lives.

Alliance for Change (AFC) members held a peaceful picket in Linden last Friday over “increasingly morbid conditions of the health sector in the mining town.”

Relatives of a Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice resident who left home 10 days ago are worried that he has not returned and that calls made to his cellular phone have gone unanswered.

A fisherman was yesterday refused bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry after he appeared on two charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.

Three men, all armed with guns broke into the R & S Variety Store and Supermarket at Clifton Settlement, Port Mourant around 11.30 pm on Sunday and escaped with cash and articles totalling $1.4 million.

Persons living on the river defence reserve at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara say they have nowhere to move to as they anxiously waited yesterday to see whether authorities would evict them.

A fire of unknown origin yesterday morning in Stewartville has left four people homeless.