Guyana News

The parents of a four-year-old girl were left mourning yesterday after the child drowned at an East Bank Demerara location.

– no word from authorities Captain of the DeVeldt Berbice River community Laxley Lindie yesterday said that he has repeatedly informed Region Ten Education Officer Claude Johnson about the area’s primary school head teacher’s absence.

The Georgetown hospital treated and discharged a man and a girl who had allegedly been assaulted and a 34-year-old woman who had been struck down by a bus.

A 45-year-old man is nursing injuries in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown hospital after he was hit by a van on Tuesday.

– $37million allocated for more repairs The main theatre at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) in Region Three has been rehabilitated and became fully operational more than a month ago and government has allocated about $37 million for additional renovations.

A man is assisting the police with their investigation into Tuesday’s Princes Street shooting incident but he is not in police custody and is not a suspect.

LONDON (Reuters) – A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano turned northern Europe into a no-fly zone yesterday, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said a management committee will be set up in order to manage development at Lethem even as he acknowledged the transformation the community has undergone, in his address to businessmen over the Easter weekend.

YUSHU, China (Reuters) – China’s premier flew to the Tibetan plateau yesterday to oversee feverish rescue efforts after a strong earthquake, but crews held out little hope for residents trapped in freezing weather under the rubble of homes, schools and monasteries.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa will increasingly use desalinated seawater to meet growing demand for drinking water in coastal towns facing the worst drought in 150 years, the country’s water minister said yesterday.

Thirty-four-year-old Mark Duncan of La Grange, West Bank Demerara, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for using money that he had earned from selling a quantity of bottled water for a man to pay off a gambling debt.

The National Trust, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and Guysuco are hosting an exhibition and book launch today to mark International Day for Monuments and Sites 2010.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has halted adoptions to US families after an American woman sent her adopted son back to Moscow on a plane with a note disowning him, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

-Parks Commission Chairman Although the National Parks Commission (NPC) has been receiving increased funding, Board Chairman John Caesar yesterday said that the Georgetown zoo requires a lot more for its development.

-accuses ruling party of delayingThe Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday urged the government to act on its promise to make “a last ditch effort to conclude the outstanding local government reforms,” and to reconvene the parliamentary select committee tasked with completing the work.

Police arrested two men minutes after they stuck up Digicel’s Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara outlet yesterday.

The taxi driver who was shot on Princes Street on Tuesday is still in a critical condition after undergoing emergency surgery and a man has been held to assisting police with the investigation.

A 13-year-old has alleged that a prominent businessman has been sexually molesting her and her sisters, with the consent of their mother.

The failure to pursue a medical solution to Sangeeta Persaud’s illness was irresponsible, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) said yesterday, while urging a “prompt and vigourous” medical investigation of the fatal case.

An exhibition, which seeks to capture the richness and grandeur of the culture of Velha Goa through the photographs of Benoy K.