Guyana News

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador yesterday protested its  “perverse” inclusion on a list of nations accused of failing to  comply with standards against money-laundering and terrorism  financing.

By Tiffny Rhodius For Tennicia De Freitas, calypso started out as “something different.”

Trinidad police suspect a suicide pact in the death of a couple whose bodies were discovered in an apartment in Longdenville, Chaguanas, yesterday.

As a parched Guyana struggles in El Nino’s dry grip, President Bharrat Jagdeo has promised to visit areas along the coast affected by the weather phenomenon to assess the situation even as he said that the administration is doing its utmost to assist affected farmers.

Police are seeking a “tall and well-built” man who was the last person seen exiting the Parika Health Centre office of HIV counsellor Seeraj Persaud moments before his lifeless body was found on Monday afternoon.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday deferred her ruling on whether to grant Crime Chief Seelall Persaud’s application for a provisional arrest warrant for Barry Dataram on a trafficking in narcotics matter.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former New York Police  Commissioner Bernard Kerik, once selected to the U.S. 

–new phase of development, Rodrigues-Birkett counters Members of the opposition and government benches yesterday clashed over the $847 million allocated towards the installation of a new fibre optic cable exclusively for e-governance, with PNCR-1G MP Aubrey Norton describing the proposed expenditure as a “waste” of valuable resources.

Two men died on Wednesday morning after their motorcycle collided with a motor lorry along the Takutu Road, Mazaruni.

Region Four Chairman Clement Corlette is calling on leaders of the PPP/C and PNCR to re-examine the initial arrangements put in place regarding the formation of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC).

Second Lieutenant Texine Daw of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) made history yesterday when she became the first woman to finish in the runner-up position of the Standard Officers Course.

The preliminary inquiry into the 2007 Lusignan Massacre is still ongoing and according to one senior police official, there is still a long way to go.

A 26-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for beating his father with a length of wood that contained several nails.

By Tiffny Rhodius The national finals of the children’s Mashramani competition continued yesterday with the calypso and dramatic poetry competitions at the National Cultural Centre.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) says it equipped over 3,000 citizens with conflict resolution and negotiation skills in its efforts to promote unity, during its Neighbourhood Conference Project.

-court hears Twenty-three-year-old Collis Felix of Lamaha Gardens yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer  charges of unlawfully assaulting his girlfriend and breaking her spectacles in a confrontation with her.

–after bloody week at Lodge Secondary A bloody week at the Lodge Secondary School has once again placed the upsurge of violence among the school population in the spotlight, prompting some authorities to call for a collaborative effort involving the ministries of Education and Human Services and the Guyana Police to address the problem holistically.

PNCR-1G Shadow Housing and Water Minister, Keith Scott has proposed that the Housing Ministry revamp fire hydrants in the city by developing a new system that allows access to water from the Demerara River.

Barticians gathered on Wednesday at the Transport and Harbours Department Stelling, Bartica for an interfaith service held in memory of the 12 persons who were slain when gunmen attacked the community two years ago.

In our report on the Guyana Elections Commission’s workshop on “the new electoral system” for local government elections 2010, published in yesterday’s edition, the People’s Progressive Party and the People’s National Congress Reform were inadvertently left out of the list of parties/groups from which participants were drawn.