Guyana News

LONDON (Reuters) – British police said they arrested 74 people during clashes following rival protests by members of a far-right group and their opponents in northern England yesterday.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Researchers in Japan have designed a super-elastic iron alloy which they hope can be used in sophisticated heart and brain surgeries and even buildings in earthquake zones.

HAVANA (Reuters) – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Guantanamo city in eastern Cuba yesterday, sending residents fleeing into the streets but a local government official said there were no casualties.

Cash crop farmers in the Mahaica Creek are moving from bounty to bare as the relentless El Nino phenomenon bakes their plots and rice farmers are not far behind as their already limited access to water continues to dwindle.

The Ministry of Health is moving to decentralise its Diabetic Foot Project, which is responsible for a 42% reduction in diabetes-related amputations at the public hospital.

The Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board (TUR&CB) is considering an application made by some RUSAL workers to have the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) derecognised as their bargaining representative.

Deeraj Sanmogan, who suffered severe burns when the fuel boat he was working on exploded, died on Wednesday.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday described Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir’s suggestion of changing the legislation to facilitate children from the age of 13 working in some jobs as “unbelievable and disgraceful.”

Queries are being made to determine the origins of the three-toed sloth that was featured on the front page of our Tuesday edition.

-Williams Should the government decide to legislate the supervision of credit unions by the Central Bank, a special department to deal with the peculiarities of regulation would have to be set up, Governor Lawrence Williams says.

The teen wounded in Wednesday’s shoot out with police ranks responding to an attempted robbery on Mandela Avenue, has refused to give up the identity of his accomplice and is denying any wrong doing.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communication’s demolition campaign has resulted in a reduction of the number of illegal structures on state reserves, which are considered hazards to traffic safety.

Two Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) workers were charged jointly with break and enter larceny Thursday.

Magistrate Ann McLennan sentenced a trainee teacher to three months community service after he pleaded guilty to possession of ½ gramme of cannabis.

-co-accused in hospital after ingesting poison A woman, who was allegedly an accomplice in a fraudulent house lot scheme, was on Wednesday charged with obtaining money by false pretence.

Keron Thompson, 28, of Pattenson, Turkeyen, was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly raping a woman.

Two policemen were yesterday arraigned on charges that they were involved in corrupt transactions.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday after being accused of unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition.

‘Evocations on Caribbean Literature Revisited,’ an exhibition of recent works by artist Ron Savory, opened to the public yesterday at the National Art Gallery, Castellani House.

The government’s intention to have Members of Parliament (MPs) declare annual declarations of income to the Integrity Commission or face disciplinary action was temporarily put on hold when a motion to give effect to this was deferred at Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly.