Guyana News

The Full Court, presiding in the pink suitcase cocaine bust hearing , yesterday reprimanded the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, for publicly commenting on the matter and an order was issued restraining her from any repetition until the case is heard and determined.

The Ministry of Labour has launched an investigation following allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of Amerindians by some Chinese nationals associated with China Trading Co.

GuySuCo’s Uitvlugt Estate manager has been sent on early retirement following issues with performance.

A 42-year-old city resident was beaten to death with a piece of wood at Ikawan Backdam, Cuyuni River on Sunday following an argument with a fellow miner.

-signals legal action The Guyana Public Service Union says the Ministry of Education stalled the appointment of Genevieve Whyte-Nedd as Chief Education Officer by saying in 2006 that it was in the midst of a restructuring exercise.

The Guyana Government yesterday condemned Monday’s bizarre attack on columnist Freddie Kissoon and Kissoon maintains that the incident stemmed from a column he had written for the Kaieteur News.

-two charged with attempted murder A Whim, Corentyne security guard who has been hospitalized following an attack at his worksite two weeks ago, remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital and another person has been charged in relation to the incident.

The National Mangrove Management Action Plan which is being prepared as a blueprint for mangrove restoration will be submitted to Cabinet for approval within the next two months.

-wells for Aurora, Lima Sands, Onderneeming The Ministry of Housing and Water distributed 5,000 house lots in Region Two during its first ‘One Stop Shop’ outreach programme for the year while a ministerial team also informed residents of plans to drill three multi-million-dollar wells in the area.

Republic Bank in a graduation ceremony on Monday held in the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel presented certificates to 21 young people who were a part of the company’s Youth Link Apprenticeship Programme 2009/2010.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it  was cutting all ties with the South and threatened its wealthy  neighbor with military action over alleged violations of its  waters off the west coast.

The National Training Programme for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) said 84 more youths graduated from its programme at a ceremony held at the New Amsterdam Technical Institute on Saturday.

PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago’s  Prime Minister-elect Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised  today to rebuild a nation fractured by allegations of fiscal  mismanagement and corruption under the defeated People’s  National Movement.

– calls on society to protect the vulnerable President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday signed the Sexual Offences Bill into law saying its reforms are gender-neutral and add to the state’s arsenal to fight predators in the country.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Thirty-one people, 28 of them  civilians, have been killed in three days of violence in  Jamaica triggered by government moves to extradite an alleged  drug lord to the United States, police said today.

Just before Terry Bacchus’ black Lexus land cruiser slammed into the concrete base of the light post on Water Street a car – carrying the gunman who murdered him late Saturday night – was seen closely following him.

– leave him unconscious in yard A 90-year-old man of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice had to seek treatment at the Fort Wellington Hospital after relatives beat him at his home last Saturday and left him unconscious.

– were stored at wrong temperature Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday said that while his ministry has asked the World Health Organisation (WHO) to replace some $40 million worth of H1N1 vaccines it donated it is not because  the vaccines, which he admitted were not properly stored, had spoiled but rather out of “an abundance of caution.”

– escape with cash Three gunmen held up staff at a Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara gas station during a robbery early yesterday morning and after failing to enter a room in the shopping mart, escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.

“I never threatened to kill him I merely prophesied that he will be burnt with fire like his father at that very house he lives in,” stated 35-year-old Edward Bowen who appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on a threatening language charge.