Guyana News

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thai troops and armoured  vehicles broke through barricades of tyres and staves today (last night local time) in a fresh offensive to evict thousands of  anti-government protesteres from their fortified camp in  central Bangkok, witnesses said.  

Two men yesterday appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magis-trate’s Court charged with sex offences and one was remanded to prison while the other was released on bail.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Suspected Times Square bomber  Faisal Shahzad was ordered held without bail yesterday at his  first court appearance since his arrest two weeks ago.  

YAOUNDE, (Reuters) – U.N. Deputy Secretary-General  Asha-Rose Migiro attacked moves by African leaders to cling to  power by rigging votes or amending constitutions, saying it was  time to rid the continent of tyrants.    Migiro launched the attack yesterday at an international  conference in Cameroon, the central African nation whose  President Paul Biya has ruled since 1982 and removed  constitutional clauses that would have prevented him from  standing in a 2011 poll.    “We cannot turn a blind eye to corruption, nepotism and  tyranny,” Migiro told the opening ceremony of the Africa21  conference called to discuss challenges facing Africa in the  21st century.  

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Norway plans to give Indonesia  $1 billion to help protect tropical forests as part of a drive  to combat climate change, a senior Indonesian official said yesterday.    “It is the biggest (donation) from one country” to help  Indonesia tackle global warming, said Agus Purnomo, head of the  secretariat of Indonesia’s National Climate Change Council.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Most of Canada’s largest  forestry companies announced a groundbreaking deal with  environmental groups yesterday that will restrict logging in  the country’s vast northern forests.  

SAANEN, Switzerland, (Reuters Life!) – In a secret  bunker deep in the Swiss Alps, European researchers on Tuesday  deposited a “digital genome” that will provide the blueprint for  future generations to read data stored using defunct technology.    Accompanied by burly security guards in black uniforms,  scientists carried a time capsule through a labyrinth of tunnels  and five security zones to a vault near the slopes of chic ski  resort Gstaad.    The sealed box containing the key to unpick defunct digital  formats will be locked away for the next quarter of a century  behind a 3-1/2 tonne door strong enough to resist nuclear attack  at the data storage facility, known as the Swiss Fort Knox.  

-EO of Nand Persaud and Co. injured-Heavily armed gunmen fired wildly A security guard was killed and another man is nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital after heavily armed bandits opened fire at a house at Wellington Park, Corentyne around 1:40 am yesterday.

With more than 10,000 acres already lost to paddy bug infestation, surveys of affected areas showed a poor level of sanitation in and around rice fields and staggered sowing dates, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

A team from the Ministry of Health will soon be dispatched to the Lethem Hospital to investigate complaints by residents that the institution, dubbed as a state-of-the-art facility when it was opened last year, is nothing but a health centre  as more complaints surface.

-prices rising Rain over the past week swelled rivers and washed away sections of roads, almost locking off access to the South Rupununi where residents are bracing for a harsh rainy season as the prices of goods rise.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has selected the two engineers who will review the bungled Supernaam stelling and met them yesterday.

– over Hururu students missed Bio exam Parents of the Hururu students, who missed their Human and Social Biology examination after an education official failed to show up with the papers, are demanding compensation from the government.

– GRA boss urges greater compliance Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur is calling on non-compliant taxpayers to submit their returns and in expressing appreciation to those who have honored their obligation he noted that “the payment of taxes has been tremendous”.

An attorney appeared in court yesterday as a complainant in a matter where three men are accused of breaking into his home.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared in Court One at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with unlawfully assaulting his reputed wife.

A South Ruimveldt man has been hospitalized after he was shot in the abdomen on Sunday night seconds after two bandits relieved him of the gold jewellery he was wearing.

A Kwakwani resident was remanded to prison on a charge of indecently assaulting an eighteen-year-old female by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her yesterday.

Fire officials are probing two suspicious fires at Uitvlugt and De Willem, West Coast Demerara on Sunday, which it is believed stemmed from family disputes.

Feverish campaigning for Suriname’s legislative elections next Tuesday was dampened yesterday as the bodies of the eight passengers killed on a domestic flight at the weekend, were brought to the capital Paramirabo.