Guyana News

For many years Murielle Albertha McBean, a 76-year-old resident of 954 Victory Valley, Wismar, Linden had been frustrated trying to acquire a modest house but after a few unfulfilled promises the victory lap is underway.

Government yesterday ex-pressed concern over the specific mention of ‘Afro-descendants’ in the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) draft policy on gender and equality for development, since it is inconsistent with the more general and non-discriminatory language of other sections of the document.

Bartica businessman Winston Miller Snr was livid last evening when he spotted on TV the policeman who brutalized him last month being officially appointed a cadet officer by Police Commis-sioner Henry Greene.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday said that there is insufficient evidence to implicate  the suspect identified in the killing of policeman Vickram Singh and the Force has since been advised to conduct further investigations.

The owner of a taxi service and another man who were charged with wounding and assaulting each other were placed on $30,000 bail each yesterday by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A former Guatemalan soldier  pleaded guilty yesterday to concealing his role in a 1982  massacre of peasants by the army in his homeland when he  applied for U.S.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Haiti and Mozambique are the  nations most at risk economically from natural disasters,  according to a ranking yesterday that says some rich countries  such as Italy and the United States also face high risks.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States charged five  men yesterday with plotting to bomb New York City’s subway  system and attack an unidentified target in Britain under  orders from al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he was prepared to discuss  “right away” the future of Jewish settlements if Palestinians  entered direct peace talks with Israel.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Emails stolen from one of the  world’s leading climate change research centres contained no  evidence to undermine the case for manmade global warming, a  report found yesterday.

A visually impaired man was yesterday placed on a bond to keep the peace for nine months by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when the woman he was accused of assaulting declined to proceed in the matter against him.

A mid afternoon fire yesterday left a South Sophia woman counting her losses and the owner believes the blaze was deliberately set.

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla., (Reuters) – Chris Reid was  pumped. After suffering through a few years of tight credit and  the U.S.

The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) on Tuesday  dispatched a letter to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) reminding the body of its six-month old complaint, submitted since January 4, requesting a public inquiry into alleged discrimination meted out to bauxite workers based on race and political geography.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel  Noriega was sentenced to seven years’ jail in France yesterday for laundering millions of euros into French bank  accounts and properties in the 1980s.

-as industry faces boiler damage, other challenges Struggling production, ongoing problems at the Skeldon factory and a turnaround plan which is yet to turn things around are plaguing the sugar industry as Chief Executive Officer, Errol Hanoman exits months ahead of his contract expiration and Finance Director Paul Bhim takes the reins.

His grandmother failed to wake at her usual time and he blamed it on the rain but several hours later when he decided to check he discovered her battered body in bed with a bloody piece of wood lying on the floor in her ransacked Brighton, Corentyne house.

A 59-year-old man was yesterday afternoon chopped to death by his drinking buddy following an argument at their Foulis, East Coast Demerara home.

-says wanted in murder, robbery probes More than two months after persons were brutalized, shot and arrested during police operations to capture Tyrone `Cobra’ Rowe,  police yesterday issued a bulletin for him saying that he was wanted for questioning in a murder and a series of robberies.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) has made a commitment to purchase a fire tender, with the assistance of regional and community officials, for Mahdia following last Thursday’s devastating blaze.