Guyana News

A Lethem woman was stabbed to death yesterday while on her way to work by an unidentified assailant who remains at large.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai handed over a complete solar panel unit and the certificate of title and plan to Micobie residents at a recent outreach exercise held in the area to discuss issues affecting livelihoods.

Newly-inducted Peace Corps volunteers were told that being a volunteer will not be a “cake walk” and they should make use of this unique opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people.

A 16-year-old girl of Bath Housing Scheme, West Berbice was badly chopped about her head and body two Sundays ago and her former partner who attacked her with a cutlass died after ingesting a poisonous substance.

– parents allege  their sons  were  kidnapped for ID parade During an identification parade yesterday the couple at Triumph who was  attacked by gunmen last Friday  failed to identify their attackers while some parents have since alleged that their sons were kidnapped and taken to the station for the ID parade.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) brought smiles to the faces of over 300 children from three depressed communities and to the children of Shaheed’s orphanages when it distributed kites to them on Monday.

-Buxtonians help victim in hot pursuit Four men robbed a Digicel outlet at Mon Repos yesterday and escaped in a motorcar, but swift action by a sales clerk at the outlet who gave chase resulted in two of the men being traced and apprehended at Buxton.

A sales clerk at Bartica was on her way to make a night deposit at a bank on Monday night when two men robbed her, but she raised an alarm and one of them was later caught with the money.

The decomposed body of a man was found in a Houston canal yesterday morning by his niece.

A Guyanese man, Dellon Williams, 31, who fathered the baby of a young lady who was a minor at the time, was found guilty of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 16 years by a nine member jury yesterday in the British Virgin islands.

Over 400 sugar workers staged a protest early yesterday morning at Plantation Diamond after GuySuCo failed to respond to a letter seeking severance pay for the workers who are to be transferred to other areas.

Police yesterday released on station bail the suspected drug dealer they had arrested in De Veldt on Saturday last during a raid that saw them seizing several outboard engines and two boats from that community and Gateroy and Sand Hills, all in the Berbice River.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The El Nino warming the Pacific  Ocean since June has peaked, but is expected to influence  climate patterns worldwide up to mid-year before dying out, the  World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said yesterday.

-forum hears The development of small and medium-scale businesses continues to depend on government and private sector support as well as the availability of specialised funding from international lending institutions.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – International donors and  the Haitian government need to create a partnership for the  long haul as they rebuild Haiti after a devastating earthquake,  the head of the World Bank Robert Zoellick said yesterday.

A 39-year-old man, who allegedly dealt his wife a severe beating that resulted in her sustaining a fractured skull among other injuries, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A father who made a farewell  video of his two young children before strangling them with  computer cables was convicted of their murder yesterday and  jailed for 28 years.

A West Demerara man charged with causing the death of a police detective by driving dangerously was granted bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

BANGALORE, India, (Reuters Life!) – A Hindu holy  man with thousands of followers across India resigned as head  of a religious organisation yesterday after police began  investigating his role in a sex scandal, officials said.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday placed four persons on bail in the sum of $15,000 each when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly being found in a house with a quantity of cocaine.