Guyana News

An Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara (WCD) teenager was yesterday electrocuted while operating a plucking machine.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with attempted murder.

A man is nursing a stab wound below his navel in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital after an argument with his reputed wife.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee again met with Tuschen residents to address security concerns and other issues affecting them at an outreach activity hosted on Tuesday.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – A member of former military  dictator Desi Bouterse’s party was elected to head Suriname’s  parliament yesterday in a move that supporters of the former  strongman said brings him a step closer to the presidency.

The Ministry of Works on Tuesday broke up and removed billboards by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company which were posted on the council’s reserves in select areas of the city.

Excess water is presently being released from the East Demerara and the Boerasirie water conservancies following rising water levels due to the recent heavy rainfall.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Canada delayed an $8 billion  debt relief deal for Democratic Republic of Congo in a dispute  over mining rights, depriving the African nation of a chance to  mark the 50th anniversary of its independence yesterday with  the accord.

Sport fishing in some areas may soon be a thing of the past as the authorities look to prevent overfishing in the inland waterways, according to Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Waves and wind  spawned by Hurricane Alex disrupted cleanup efforts from the  Gulf of Mexico oil spill yesterday while a senior U.S. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of  Representatives yesterday approved a landmark overhaul of  financial regulations but the Senate put off action until  mid-July, delaying a final victory for President Barack Obama.

The British High Commission says Simon Bond has been appointed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office as acting high commissioner for the next 12 months.

ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda insurgents killed 11  Algerian paramilitary police in a desert ambush yesterday, a  newspaper and a security source said, in the deadliest attack  the group has mounted so deep in the Sahara.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday implored donors not to “obsess” with capacity building before releasing funds as this would hinder development efforts.

-will not testify against co-accused In a surprise twist Guyanese Abdel Nur, one of the persons implicated in a plot to blow up fuel pipes at John F Kennedy Airport, yesterday morning pleaded guilty to one count of providing support to terrorists before US District Judge Dora Irizarry in a Brooklyn, New York court.

The government’s inability to adequately police the high seas will see the administration turning to technology to help protect fisherfolk, President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told an event to mark Fisherman’s Day.

As the city’s garbage crisis lingers, heaps of refuse are being seen along the roadways and the Mayor and City Council is appealing to citizens to effect disposal at the landfill site or to bury their trash if there is available space.

The Ministry of Education is considering offering scholarships and special incentives for trained Mathematics and Science teachers as a means of promoting the two subject areas in schools.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats yesterday   stripped out a controversial tax from their landmark financial  reform bill in a scramble to win the votes needed to pass it  through Congress.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have charged  18 people in an international money-laundering conspiracy that  they said moved millions of dollars of Colombian drug profits  through the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Hungary and  other countries.