Guyana News

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The killers of a Hamas commander  drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said yesterday.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha  has said that Holi will be celebrated  countrywide  today.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan oil company PDVSA  may withdraw from the 320,000 barrel-per-day Isla refinery it  operates in Curacao to protest U.S.

CONCEPCION, Chile, (Reuters) – A massive earthquake  and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town,  pushing the total death toll higher yesterday as the government  tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting.

The government’s failure to honour a promise to seek foreign aid to solve the murder of Satyadeow Sawh has prompted one of the late Minister’s relatives to ask the Canadian government for help in accessing Roger Khan who it is believed has vital information.

CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – One of the world’s  most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile yesterday, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings  and triggering a tsunami that threatened Pacific coastlines as  far away as Hawaii and Russia.

Rice officials and a private sector team will be visiting Venezuela to revise the US$18.8M contract which should have seen 50,000 tonnes of paddy and rice shipped to the neighbouring state.

The latest attempts by the administration to upgrade Bartica, Charity, Parika and Supenaam into towns are likely to be delayed by the holding of Local Government Elections, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall says.

-Transport Minister Construction work on the airstrip in the Essequibo River island of Wakenaam is slated for completion by the end of April this year and the administration expects to construct and commission an airstrip on the sister island of Leguan before the end of the year.

– police awaiting results to continue probe David ‘Biscuit’ Leander’s toxicology samples have been sitting in a Trinidadian lab for several months now and until the police here receive those results, their investigation into the baffling death is at a standstill.

It took Ruth Bart nearly four hours to get a minibus to the city from her Friendship, East Bank Demerara home on a regular day when buses were passing every few minutes.

The Brazilian man who is wanted in his homeland for killing a policeman remains in police custody here and will soon be charged with a larceny offence.

A Russian national died yesterday morning shortly after a tree branch fell on his head while he was a member of a party cutting a road in the Port Kaituma, North West District area.

An accident yesterday afternoon involving a minibus and another vehicle saw 17 persons being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment.

A stabbing incident yesterday afternoon in South Ruimveldt saw a man being taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital in serious condition.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The race for Colombia’s  presidency began yesterday, with former defence minister Juan  Manuel Santos the favourite after the South American nation’s  popular incumbent was blocked from running for a third term.

CONCEPCION, Chile,  (Reuters) – One of the world’s  most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile today, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings  and triggering a tsunami that threatened Pacific coastlines as  far away as Hawaii and Russia.

Region Four Regional Executive Officer (REO) Shafdar Ali is being sought by police for questioning in relation to a multi-million dollar fraud committed on the state.

MV Northcote breaks down, perishable goods lost Port Kaituma residents are calling on the authorities to improve the ferry service offered by the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) to the Region One area, some calling on the authorities to make available a new and faster vessel to serve the mining district.

Two weeks of debate on the 2010 National Budget and consideration of estimates in the Committee of Supply of the National Assembly concluded last evening when the House passed the Appropriation Bill 2010, giving the go-ahead for public spending this year.