Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron  will announce soon he is setting up an inquiry into allegations  British security services were complicit in torture of terrorism  suspects overseas, the BBC reported yesterday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters Life!) – Broadcast veteran  Larry King announced yesterday that he would be ending his  nightly “Larry King Live” show on CNN this coming autumn after  25 years on television.

Guyanese Abdel Nur this morning pleaded guilty to aiding a plot to blow up New York’s John F.

Mae’s Under-12 student Sonia Ghir was yesterday named the country’s top performer at this year’s National Grade Six Examinations.

*  English still a concern *  girls continue to perform better than boysMinister of Education Shaik Baksh said pupils across the country who wrote the National Grade Six Assessment improved in Mathematics this year, a result he credited to a new interactive programme, but English remains of major concern.

The policeman who is alleged to have fatally shot Patentia schoolboy Kelvin Fraser was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with the capital offence.

Despite the valiant efforts of the medical staff at Linden the premature baby girl who was found in a garbage heap has died.

– say organisers promoting homosexuality The Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO) yesterday accused the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discri-mination (SASOD) of attempting to corrupt young minds in society by using its gay and lesbian film festival to promote homosexuality.

The deadline for taxi service operators to comply with the order to ensure their vehicles are sprayed in ‘corporate yellow’ has been extended to September following a meeting between their representative body and President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday.

A no-confidence motion brought against Mayor Hamilton Green failed yesterday after 14 councillors voted against it.

Two police constables who allegedly transported a vehicle from Lethem to George-town using fake licence plates were remanded to prison yesterday by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when they appeared before her charged with fraudulent imitation of identification.

A 23-year-old motorcyclist of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) is now dead following a collision with a minibus on Sunday evening on the Embankment Road in his village.

Four persons, among them two foreigners, were remanded to prison yesterday when they appeared before Magis-trate Hazel Octive Hamilton separately charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

The results of the post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of Tirbawaniepersaud ‘Randy’ Totaram, 47, of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek proved that he died from shock and haemorrhage due to puncture to the groin.

A young woman was placed on $25,000 bail yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton after the magistrate upbraided the police for not carrying out thorough investigations prior to their arraignment of the 18-year-old on two charges of robbery under arms.

The husband of a 41-year-old woman who died on Sunday at the New Amsterdam Hospital was released from custody after results of a post-mortem examination proved that she died by poisoning.

Two armed bandits who robbed a Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara shop keeper of cash on Sunday night have been captured.

One week after garbage collectors suspended their services, there is as yet no indication of when these will be resumed, but the city is using the crisis to see if it can manage garbage collection.

– as FCPF participants meeting opens The Sixth Meeting of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Participants Committee opened here yesterday with Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud highlighting government’s concerns about process, questioning whether other countries face the same level of scrutiny as Guyana.

A 20-year-old man was remanded to prison yesterday after he appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Court charged with having carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 15.