Guyana News

Drug detection dogs in Guyana have been unable to detect illegal substances on persons or in suitcases at the airport mainly because police authorities refuse to provide the drugs for the dogs to sample, which according to experts is crucial to their performance.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece hopes to secure a deal with  the European Union and the IMF for a multi-billion euro  financial bailout to be announced today, a day after  thousands protested in Athens against planned state cutbacks.

Kiven Roberts, of 15 Norton Street, Lodge, died last night at the Georgetown Public Hospital about 5 hours after he was struck down by a minibus.

A 33-year-old man is now a patient at a private hospital after being shot on Friday evening in North Sophia.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Arab League nations yesterday  endorsed a resumption of negotiations on the Palestinian-Israeli  conflict, raising hopes that indirect talks brokered by the  United States could revive the stalled peace process.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Angered by Arizona’s  crackdown on illegal immigrants, Hispanic protesters took to  the streets yesterday to de-nounce the new law and call on  President Barack Obama to act urgently on immigration reform at  May Day rallies across the United States.

TCL Guyana Inc (TGI) last Sunday donated 35 sacks of cement to a 75-year-old visually impaired farmer to be used in construction work at his residence.

Bauxite union representatives Leslie Gonsalves and Carlton Sinclair have moved to have a suit against them brought by the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police evacuated New York’s  Times Square last night for what officers at the scene  called an “emergency investigation” and dozens of officers  blocked access to the busy central Manhattan square.

HAVANA (Reuters) – A sea of red-clad Cubans paraded  through Havana’s Revolution Square yesterday in a politically  charged May Day celebration that urged rejection of  international criticism of the island’s human rights policies  and harder work to bolster socialism.

Gaitree Dhanraj, the Enmore resident who along with her husband, was set on fire two Fridays ago by her son, succumbed to her injuries yesterday.

The PNCR says it is fully in support of the legal proceedings instituted against the government by WPA member Desmond Trotman, over the administration’s failure to pay over funds obtained from the Guyana Lottery Company into the Consolidated Fund.

LONDON (Reuters) – Four new polls yesterday reinforced the Conservative party’s momentum just five days before Britain’s closely fought parliamentary election, which  increasingly looks set to end Labour’s 13-year rule.

LONDON (Reuters Life) – Just five minutes of exercise  a day in the great outdoors can improve mental health, according  to a study released on Saturday, and policymakers should  encourage more people to spend time in parks and gardens.

Three men are all feared drowned after the boat they were travelling in sank in stormy waters of the Essequibo River on Thursday.

-denies causing woman’s death The driver of the vehicle involved in the Wednesday morning accident that claimed the life of Kishana DaSilva was yesterday granted $2M bail, after pleading not guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

-court hears Two serving members of the Guyana Defence Force were granted $100,000 bail each when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with demanding money by menace.

-dealers In wake of the government’s decision to ban the scrap metal trade, dealers yesterday blamed the upsurge in vandalism for material on poor monitoring to authenticate the source of supplies.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is awaiting word from the Medical Council of Guyana before taking any action against Police Surgeon Dr Mahendra Chand, who was recently censured for professional misconduct in the treatment of a teen boy who was tortured in police custody last year.

The Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Economic Services visited the Skeldon factory on Wednesday and the general consensus was that the modernisation project is moving along and the industry should do well in the future.