Guyana News

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.

The Agriculture Ministry on Saturday commissioned a cold storage facility at Parika on the East Bank of Esse-quibo, aimed at boosting and fulfilling the demands for non-traditional crops in the export market.

-Vienna workshop hears By Iana Seales In Vienna, Austria Tuberculosis is the forgotten disease says Peg Willingham, Senior Director for External Affairs at Aeras Global and she also points out that funding is not enough at the global level to effectively tackle the illness in many countries.

…following training in entrepreneurial skills Two hundred youths are expected to join the workforce following their completion of the residential Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Train-ing (YEST) programme at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre which is managed by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

A new resource centre has been opened at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway and the facility has  a library and  a computer centre, which houses five complete computer systems and additional office space.

Premnauth Narine, the patient at the centre of a confrontation between Georgetown Public Hospital staff and residents of Craig remained in the Male ward of the medical institution up to press time despite being given up to noon yesterday to leave.

Thirty-two-year-old Leon Harris of Cemetery Road, Lodge, was placed on $250,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly obtaining over $700,000 from a man by pretending that he was in the position to get a bank loan for him.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Engineers monitoring BP Plc’s  damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico detected seepage on the  ocean floor that could mean problems with the cap that has  stopped oil from gushing into the water, the U.S.

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh, responding to Business Page columnist Christopher Ram’s letter of July 11 in the Sunday Stabroek,  says that Ram is not an objective commentator and his commentaries are driven by a narrow political and personal agenda.

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales has renewed his commitment to support the work of the Iwokrama International Centre (IIC) in sustainable rainforest management by continuing to be its Patron for a further five years.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton pushed new economic partnerships yesterday to buttress a  shaky alliance with Pakistan that U.S.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – The United Nations and the  world’s largest backer of programmes against HIV/AIDS said yesterday they feared wealthy donor nations may cut funding to  fight the disease because of global recession.