Guyana News

Patricia De Abreu, the woman who along with her 4-year-old son was injured in a Mash Day accident involving a minibus, has developed complications and was recently forced to undergo surgery to her collar bone which was fractured during the accident.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications is conducting sea defence maintenance works at Cullen, Essequibo Coast in anticipation of the May/June rains.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Duchess of York, caught  on camera apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband,  UK trade envoy Prince Andrew, said yesterday she was sorry for  her “serious lapse in judgment”.  

VENICE, La/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government  threatened yesterday to remove BP from efforts to seal a  blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico if it doesn’t do  enough to stop the leak, though it acknowledged only the  company and the oil industry have the know-how to halt the  deepwater spill.  

WARSAW, (Reuters) – The Polish astronomer Nicolaus  Copernicus has been reburied in Poland in a lavish ceremony 467  years after his death, media reported over the weekend.    During a Roman Catholic ritual, the remains were interred   beneath the altar of Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland,  where the astronomer had been the canon (head priest) and where  he originally was buried in 1543. 

CANNES, France, (Reuters) – Thai film “Uncle Boonmee  Who Can Recall His Past Lives” won the coveted Palme d’Or for  best picture at the Cannes film festival yesterday.  

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica declared a state of  emergency in two parishes of its capital Kingston today  after shooting and firebomb attacks on police stations by  suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces  extradition to the United States.

Canadian consultants found Synergy lacked ‘capacity’, needed partner Government’s eight-month deadline stipulated for the construction of the access roads to the Amaila Falls hydropower plant appears to be unrealistic based on the review of the project’s original feasibility study by Canadian consultants Kaehne Consulting Ltd, who also said that Synergy Holdings did not have the financial, technical capacity or experience to develop the project on its own and needed to partner with another corporate entity.

Police are investigating an incident where an eight-year-old girl is accused of breaking into her neighbour’s house on the West Coast Berbice last Sunday and carting off about $600,000 in cash and jewellery.

– calls resound for upgrading of air corps There is currently only one person at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Air Corps who is qualified to pilot the Chinese Y-12 Harbin aircraft, as there continue to be calls on the authorities to upgrade the general capacity of the unit.

– almost completely vandalized, residents say Despite calls being made for the preservation of the historical old New Amsterdam Hospital building, vandals are still destroying it and residents are afraid that the dilapidated structure could collapse at anytime.

Six of the seven murders committed in April were of men and five of them remain unsolved to date.

An acid burn victim is asking for assistance so he can have surgery to save his eyes which were badly damaged when persons threw a bucket of acid at his face.

Former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Senior Counsel George H.R.

MANGALORE, India, (Reuters) – An Air India Express  airliner crashed outside an airport in southern India today, killing 158 people when it burst into flames after  overshooting a table-top runway and plunging into forest below.

MANGALORE, India (Reuters) – An Air India Express  airliner crashed and burst into flames outside an airport in  southern India yesterday, killing 158 people, many thought to  be Indian migrant workers returning home from Dubai.

Gunmen struck at a creek along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway on Friday night and after attacking four persons escaped with over $120,000.

WEST POINT, NY (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  declared yesterday the United States cannot act alone in the  world and pledged to shape a new “international order” as part  of a national security strategy to seal his break with Bush-era  policies.

The over $10 million Rose Hall Town Fire Station was formally commissioned and handed over to Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee in a ceremony described as long overdue.

WASHINGTON/VENICE, La (Reuters) – US President  Barack Obama yesterday blamed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil  spill on “a breakdown of responsibility” at energy giant BP Plc  as he officially unveiled a commission to investigate the  disaster.