Guyana News

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations’ handling of humanitarian emergencies has been “very disappointing” and its leadership in that area should be overhauled, a British government-commissioned report said yesterday.

A couple claiming that they were “the parents” of Renaldo Parris turned up at his home at Tuschen on Sunday but left without him after he cried and refused to go with them and the Child Care and Protection Agency is looking in his circumstances.

The United Minibus Union will be issuing a fare structure to the route 47 buses after these operators attempted to strike yesterday.

NAWFALIYAH/MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – Rebels advanced west toward the birthplace of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, firing mortars and heavy machineguns in sporadic clashes with loyalist forces.

The Rotary Club of Stabroek said about 50 persons participated in a Spelling Bee it hosted on Saturday at one of its Literary Project sites in Bagotville.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Former US President Jimmy Carter met with Cuban Jews on Monday at the start of a private three-day visit to the island, but he did not discuss with them a US aid contractor jailed for allegedly providing illegal Internet access to Jewish groups.

A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $250,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after he was accused of attempting to commit a fraud.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian forces fired into the air yesterday to disperse a pro-democracy protest in the southern flashpoint city of Deraa, where reformists want to overthrow the 41-year rule of the Assad family.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Suspected Colombian rebels bombed a gas pipeline pumping 150-200 million cubic feet per day, halting natural gas exports to Venezuela, a source at Colombia’s state-run Ecopetrol said yesterday.

(Jamaica Information Service) The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) proposed Maggotty hydroelectric power plant in St Elizabeth is projected to employ some 200 persons during the construction phase, according to the company’s President, Damian Obiglio.

(Trinidad Guardian) Security officers at the San Fernando General Hospital attacked members of the media yesterday, trying to stop them from covering a protest by the hospital’s maintenance staff.

(Trinidad Express) President George Maxwell Richards appears to have no choice but to remove Nizam Mohammed as chairman of the Police Service Commission.

A licensed firearm holder shot and wounded a knife-welding burglar in his yard at Lot 25 Bagotstown early this morning.

The large quantity of cocaine which was busted by Jamaican officials  recently on a ship out of Guyana may have been headed for China, investigators have revealed.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm over Japan’s lengthy battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled nuclear complex, the plant’s operator said today, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

(Go Jamaica) The Government has indicated that it will be raising with Caricom the issue of the alleged mistreatment of a Jamaican woman by Barbados customs and immigration officials.

An alleged thief who was killed early Saturday morning at a house on Mandela Avenue has been identified as 48-year old Colin Clement Davis, and relatives have disputed reports that he was a thief.

As Norwegian Environment Minister Erik Solheim heads to Guyana this week, several members of civil society have charged that the government here has “substantially failed” to implement the forest saving agreement with the Scandinavian state, an assertion rejected by the Office of Climate Change (OCC).

A 36-year-old US-based Guyanese was on Sunday arrested by police in St Maarten after one of the two teenagers he was joy riding with on a jet ski fell off and died, the St Maarten News Network (SMN) has reported.