Guyana News

Bandits have reportedly made off with more than $3.6 million worth of cell phones and other electronic gadgets from the Rite Price Wireless store on Regent Street.

India (Reuters) – A speeding passenger train crashed into another waiting at a station in eastern India early yesterday, killing at least 60 people in India’s second major accident in as many months, officials said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s emergency committee intends to convene as early as today to review data and declare an end to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, Bloomberg News reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Delivery on climate financing is essential, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Tuesday as he reiterated the need for world leaders to deliver sizeable financial support to developing countries to fund their efforts in mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Twenty-two-year-old Leonard Nelson of Tucville was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of threatening to chop up his mother and sister.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur region and the United Nations will sign a deal this week to protect children, an independent mediation group said yesterday, in a move that appears aimed at stopping the use of child soldiers.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan will ask for more direct control over billions of dollars of aid funds at a major international conference today, but its foreign partners remain concerned about its ability to take the first steps alone.

– Ituni, Kwakwani still looking for relief Floodwaters in some Upper Demerara areas were receding yesterday and residents in the communities of Kwakwani and Ituni were hoping for a change in the weather pattern.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 16-year-old boy be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of snatching a woman’s gold chain.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US National Guard troops will begin arriving along the border with Mexico on August 1 to bolster security as the Obama administration tries to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, weapons and narcotics, officials said yesterday.

-advertised scheme at Sara Johanna Clients have been turning up in vain at the former office of a local housing developer in the city to uplift monies which were paid towards a housing project intended for the East Bank of Demerara but which never materialized.

A 55-year-old man was electrocuted last week Wednesday and while the occupants of the Betervewagting (BV) address where his body was discovered said that he fell down in their yard and died, a post-mortem examination performed on his body last Friday revealed that he was electrocuted.

The brother of former boxing champion, Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis was found dead outside his Albouystown home yesterday morning.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Former coup leader and  military strongman Desi Bouterse was elected president of  Suriname by the South American country’s parliament today,  lawmakers said.

An early morning fire yesterday left a Number 67 village, Corentyne family of four homeless.

-drainage bid fails Efforts by Public Works Ministry officials to fix a broken part of the Linden/ Kwakwani trail in the vicinity of Ituni in the Upper Deme-rara area yesterday failed to prevent water from further eroding and flooding the roadway.

Support poured in yesterday for 11-year-old Dawnetta Mc Lean, whose resilience saw her being awarded a place at Queen’s College amidst major odds, with promises of financial and other forms of assistance and a pledge of a brand new lap top computer has been made.

Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran says he supports the presidential term limit, explaining that it is an important factor in democratic systems.

Privatising the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Co. will either have to be at a give-away price or accompanied by a 25% to 50% increase in tariff to provide a commercial return on the purchase price, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds says.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has said the government has put the establishment of the Public Procurement Commission on hold as it seeks political consensus on how it is set up.