Guyana News

Workers have been busy clearing out buildings, removing dried vines from cages and sprucing up the aquarium at the Georgetown zoo.

The face of illiteracy in this country has for some time now been represented by in-school youths who pass through the education system but leave it unable to interpret two sentences.

Chasing cattle thieves in the sprawling Rupununi savannahs, at times Chad Phillips slept in the open with little to eat and little protection, but determined that the rustlers would not be allowed to operate freely.

A miner was shot and injured during a quarrel with an employee over money at Erickroc Backdam, Potaro, North West District (NWD) on Friday.

A man and his wife suffered burns about their bodies after their son set their Enmore North, East Coast Demerara home ablaze late Friday night during an argument.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – World Bank member  countries reached a preliminary agreement on a 3.13 per cent  shift in voting power to give emerging and developing nations  greater influence in the global institution.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Finance leaders scrambled  to secure aid for debt-stricken Greece as Canada cautioned yesterday that some European countries feared the 45 billion  euros under consideration was not enough.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Former Nazi Paul Schaefer,  who founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the  1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children,  died of heart failure in a prison hospital on Saturday,  officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s  top executive boasted in late 2007 about the money the  investment bank was making from betting against risky  mortgages, according to a collection of e-mails released by a  Senate panel yesterday.

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea yesterday raised  the front half of a warship that exploded and sank a month ago  near a contested sea border with North Korea, finding clues  that support growing suspicions Pyongyang attacked the vessel.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Foreign Office  apologised yesterday for a memorandum by a civil servant  suggesting Pope Benedict should open a hospital abortion ward  when he visits Britain this year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday marked the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by  Turkish forces, calling it one of the worst atrocities of the  20th century, but avoiding any mention of “genocide.”

Five persons were yesterday charged after they allegedly offered inducements to the young girls at the centre of the child molestation case against Chandra Narine Sharma, including his son-in-law and three employees.

A Full Court yesterday ordered Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to show cause why her advice to institute conspiracy charges against two persons charged after the pink suitcase cocaine bust should not be quashed.

–fuel shortage adds to weather woes A Surinamese helicopter, which was reported missing by aviation officials on Thursday evening, was found intact and the craft was stranded on a sand bank in the Mazaruni area late last evening after it ran out of fuel.

By Zoisa Fraser The National Trust yesterday called for the preservation of the 207-year-old landmark at Victoria, East Coast Demerara that was ordered removed by the Public Works Ministry but Minister Robeson Benn insists that it poses a danger to road users and is in an illegal spot.

The City Constabulary Department of the Georgetown Municipality is currently undertaking a litter bug campaign as the department cites littering as a major contributor to the city being flooded after rainfall.

A Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara resident is questioning where the police patrols are after her storeroom was broken into sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning and ranks failed to respond until hours after she made a report.

Relatives of Indramattie Boladass have written to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) over the police force investigation into her death, which they maintain was linked to an alleged beating administered by her husband.

Fourteen projects from youths in the Latin America and the Caribbean were recently awarded US$365,000 in grants from the Development Marketplace Competition 2010.