Guyana News

A minibus conductor will have to pay a $15,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to exposing his private parts to a 13-year-old girl.

Okemo Todd suffered years of abuse at the hands of her reputed husband and early yesterday morning was brutally stabbed to death during a heated argument.

Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old man whose burnt remains were found moments after he returned home in a suspected drunken state.

An afternoon of fun for a group of boys ended in tragedy yesterday when one of them drowned in a “backwash lagoon” at the Guyana Water Incorporated’s (GWI) Central Ruimveldt Iron Removal treatment plant.

– US report Bribes and coercion see Guyana’s dons continuing to operate with impunity despite some strides made by local law agencies in investigating drug crimes, the 2010 US State Department Inter-national Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) has found.

Guyanese Dr Suresh Narine has been awarded a Cdn$1.25M Ontario Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Engineering from his alumnus Trent University in Ontario, Canada.

A fireman was killed on the spot last evening when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pedal cyclist on the Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

– had been cleared in Polar beer scam probe report The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) recently terminated the employment of six high-level officials who were cleared in the Polar beer scam report, but had been sent on leave to facilitate an investigation.

As  the 210 budget debates wound down last Monday evening, Opposition Leader Robert Corbin called on the government to pay heed to the advice of the parliamentary opposition, as he identified this as one of the keys to accelerated progress in the country.

PNCR Shadow Finance Minister Winston Murray last Thursday reprimanded Agri-culture Minister Robert Persaud for not allowing the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to maintain its own accounting records, thus breaking the law.

The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, a branch of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, will formally launch its in-company Executive Master of Business Adminis-tration (EMBA) programme in Guyana tomorrow.

– students sent home Officials at the Port Kaituma Secondary School were forced to send home the children who use the dormitory facility because of a lack of food.

The man who was placed on bail after he was arrested on the allegation of the rape of two young girls in Port Kaituma has been re-arrested and was flown to Georgetown yesterday.

CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – Looters raided more stores in this ravaged city yesterday as thousands of Chilean troops struggled to restore order after a huge earthquake and tsunamis killed more than 700 people.

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey warned yesterday relations with its ally the United States would be damaged if a US congressional panel votes this week to label a World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces as genocide.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Hundreds of civilians are feared to have died in a surge of fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels in the turbulent Darfur region, a UN source told Reuters yesterday.

PARIS (Reuters) – Russia will consider imposing “smart” sanctions against Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to persuade Tehran to relent over its nuclear programme, President Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday.

DAKAR (Reuters) – Chad has accepted a UN proposal to extend the mandate of its peacekeeping force in the West African country until May 15, the UN Secretary General’s special representative said yesterday.

–arrest halted plan to set up resort Drug convict David Narine had built a ‘mansion’ and a guest house and was in the process of developing a resort near Shell Beach in Region One shortly before he was held and convicted in St Martin on drug trafficking charges.

The FBI is hunting a Guyanese man accused of masterminding a US$7 million mortgage fraud scheme in New York.