Guyana News

The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has been asked to recoup more than $6M overpaid for drainage works undertaken to sections of the East Coast of Demerara following the 2005 floods.

Several persons were injured yesterday when a Route 44 bus and a car collided on Camp Street around midday.

-after region assigns new teachers A new teacher has been sent to take over classes at the De Veldt Primary School, in the Berbice River, according to Captain of the community Laxley Lindie.

A prison officer, who took two cellular phones and cigarettes inside the Camp Street prison, was yesterday granted $30,000 bail on a charge that he took forbidden items into the prison.

-still unidentified An unidentified man of Chinese decent was killed at Versailles, West Bank Demerara on Monday night, after he lost control of his motorbike and crashed into a bridge.

LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s skies were open for business today, but with so many planes having been grounded by the pall of volcanic ash spreading from Iceland it could take days, or weeks, to clear the backlog.

A $50 million investment in the start up of a metal and fabrication workshop is the latest venture in Linden and it has employed some 25 persons from the area.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it is reviewing its opposition to a UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, in a gesture to Native Americans who support the sweeping but non-binding document.

By Cathy Richards Minibus operators say the ‘short-drop’ taxi service at Linden is currently threatening the round-the-town bus route and the current rehabilitation of Co-op Crescent Mackenzie and the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge are fuelling this process.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil awarded a domestic consortium rights to build the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest in a chaotic auction amid criticism the dam is an environmentally hazardous money loser.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday placed a father of two on bail in the sum of $70,000 when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of vandalizing two vehicles belonging to an auto dealer.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The last leader of Argen-tina’s 1976-83 dictatorship was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday for his involvement in the kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people in a clandestine concentration camp.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) An influential senator warned the official US overseas aid agency: come down to earth with the impoverished people or see your funding cut.

The man identified as Glenvis Hinds in the story, “Canje River trio remanded on gun, narcotics charges,” published in our April 17, 2010 edition, was not him.

– after pick-up slams into them A motorcyclist was killed and his pillion rider hospitalized on Sunday after an out of control pick-up crashed into them at Rose Hall, Canje, Berbice.

– after she withdrew petition A Guyanese man had his bid to remain in the US denied earlier this month after his wife withdrew her application for sponsorship and instead sought a restraining order against him.

A fire late last night destroyed at house at Linden. It is believed that it was caused by a lit candle since electricity to the building was disconnected recently.

Police officers yesterday spent the better part of the day at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) in an attempt to read carnal knowledge charges to Chandra Narine Sharma but his doctor kept them at bay saying he was too ill to answer to any charges.

During the rainy season, flooded creeks and streams limit travelling in the Deep South Rupununi.

Former deputy governor of the Bank, Clarence Ellis has died, leaving a legacy of sound economic policies and years of committed work in the public service.