Guyana News

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is now clearing a section of the Le Repentir Cemetery, east of the Enmore Martyrs burial site, in an effort to provide more space for the dead, City Hall spokesman Royston King says.

The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department is advising against the use of a number of children’s and infant’s over-the-counter liquid medicines manufactured in the United States, following their recall.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that two men be remanded to prison when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly being found in the Cuyuni River area with a quantity of cocaine in their possession.

A woman was yesterday remanded to police custody when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for obtaining a quantity of cash pretending that she was in the position to obtain a seaman’s visa for another person.

The Ministry of Public Works in collaboration with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission have completed several traffic safety projects along the Linden to Lethem road, involving the installation of signs at critical areas.

The West Berbice businessman who was picked up at his home/business place on Friday for reportedly importing 274 rounds of ammunition has been placed on $100,000 station bail, his lawyer, Joel Persid Edmond said.

The Region Five Disabled Persons Network has planned an educational tour of schools, a blind cricket match and a number of other projects as part of its activities to mark Blind Awareness Month.

On the campaign trail By Gino Persaud With a few days left to the May 6th polls, the UK now bears witness to one of the most gripping electoral battles in many years.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Pakistani-American admitted trying to detonate a bomb in New York’s busy Times Square and receiving bomb-making training in a known Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold in Pakistan, US prosecutors said yesterday.

The clothes vendor who was stabbed several times in his house on Monday is now recovering in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after undergoing emergency surgery.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday more UN sanctions against his country over its nuclear programme would not stop Iran but could permanently wreck its ties with the United States.

The PNCR salutes Guyanese of East Indian descent and those in the Diaspora as the country observes Indian Arrival Day.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters ) – An Argentine judge yesterday ordered the arrest of the Dirty War dictatorship’s economy minister in an investigation into the kidnapping of a businessman and his son in 1976, a lawyer said.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) recognises the contributions Indians have made to the nation and posited that a sound moral foundation is vital to gaining more successes.

Dr Frederick Monderson in association with Professor Joycelynne Loncke donated a number of books on ancient history and articles on American history to the Chief Librarian of the National Library yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A US scientist is supporting a theory that has been widely dismissed as a personal obsession of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez: that his hero Simon Bolivar might have died from arsenic poisoning.

In a message to mark the 172nd anniversary of Indian Arrival Day in Guyana, the Justice For All Party (JFPA) urged that Guyanese follow the example set through the struggles of their ancestors who arrived on the Whitby and Hesperus.

DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) – Airspace over Scotland and Northern Ireland will be closed from early today because of volcanic ash that closed airports in Ireland yesterday and could threaten summer holiday travel.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Any links between Pakistan’s  Taliban and a failed bombing in New York’s Times Square could  put the country under renewed U.S.

– potentially ‘disastrous’, warns miners body Government is moving to limit the number of mining properties a miner can hold—a move the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) says is “disastrous” and will gradually destroy the industry.