Guyana News

Parlall Ramassar is in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed several times about the body by a man who had a feud with his cousin.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications is advising persons who have claims in relation to the purchase of tickets to and from Canada against Roraima Airways/Sunrise International Travels Inc to submit same to it.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo  Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on  Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a  website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his  ministers.

A fisherman was attacked by pirates off the Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne foreshore last Thursday and robbed of his engine, cell phone and groceries.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Gunmen in the  drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two  Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S.

Police recovered a stolen generator while searching a motor car at Reliance, Berbice, last Friday and the driver along with the two passengers have been arrested.

The Vector Control Unit of  the Georgetown City Council  will be targeting certain areas in the city in an anti-mosquito campaign  which is set to commence today.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki  pulled ahead yesterday in early results of an election Iraqis  hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but a divided vote  suggested long and fraught talks to form a government are ahead.

(Jamaica Observer) A Barbados minister of government has moved to shut out toxic Jamaican dancehall music from his country.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An international team of  scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one  plant family to another, offering broader protection from  potentially costly and destructive pests.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – More than 100,000 protesters  converged in Bangkok yesterday and gave Thailand’s  military-backed government an ultimatum to call elections within  24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the capital.

The TSU anti-crime unit aided by a heavy presence of mobile patrols around the city effected the swift rescue of a 26-year-old accountant who was kidnapped by a gang of three in West Ruimveldt on Friday night.

A police constable was beaten about the body before being robbed at gunpoint on Friday night minutes after he had gone to the rescue of an 18-year-old woman who had been taken to the Ogle Seawall against her will.

– facilities deplorable, health practices not observed In her natural habitat the lioness is among the strongest and fastest of predators.

-Trotman The Alliance For Change yesterday said that it would participate in upcoming local government elections only if the legislative reforms mandated by the Local Government Task Force and agreed on by all parties and the international community are put in place.

Guyana is on the eve of back-to-back national elections; long delayed local government elections are due to be run off this year, while general elections are constitutionally due before the end of 2011.

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin has labelled recent talk about the possible introduction of overseas voting for the upcoming general elections, as a “sterile discussion.”

Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran believes the libel laws will be changed by the courts when a suitable case presents itself to offer greater freedom of the press and to reflect the reforms that have swept other countries within recent years.

An inadequate water supply has been plaguing communities in Region Eight even prior to the current El Nino phenomenon and women who say they are frustrated recently decided to take action by protesting in the streets and starting a relief fund.

– after accepting bribe Two police constables attached to the Kitty Police Station have been placed under close arrest for accepting bribes to release a man.