Guyana News

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Icelandic voters vented their  fury yesterday at the bankers and politicians who ruined their  economy, overwhelmingly rejecting a $5 billion deal to repay  debts to Britain and the Netherlands, early results showed.

The manager of the Guyana Gold Board Bartica office was fired two weeks ago after not adhering to procedures in determining the purity of gold when purchasing the mineral.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia and Venezuela are making  progress in negotiations to end a diplomatic dispute that has  battered trade and unnerved the Andean region, said the Dominican  Republic’s president, who is brokering talks.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) –  A US resolution that  branded as genocide the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks  during World War One will seriously damage US-Turkish  relations, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the Sept.

Labelling the 2010 US State Department International Narcotics Strategy Report (INCSR) on Guyana a falsehood, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday also knocked the report’s praise of CANU while it rubbished efforts by government to combat drug trafficking.

The Guyana Prison Service is moving to house mentally-unstable inmates separate from the general prison population until a hospital-like facility can be built to hold them, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has said.

Guyana’s country progress report for the past two years, which will be submitted to UNGASS later this month, cites evidence the AIDS epidemic has been progressively decreasing among the general population, but it also points to the increasing feminization of the disease.

– despite son’s desperate attempt to save him The heroic efforts of a son to rescue his sick father from their burning home yesterday afternoon were not enough as the elderly man perished in the blaze, which destroyed the house at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara.

In biggest anti-narcotic raid in the Berbice River recently, ‘B’ Division police, aided by a helicopter from the army destroyed 10 marijuana fields at Gateroy on an 18-acre plot of land on Thursday.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday declared that he would not “shy away” from leading the PPP slate as its presidential candidate at next year’s general elections, adding that he has informed the ruling party of his desire.

Around noon on Wednesday, more than 24 hours before Usawatie Persaud’s body was discovered at Eping Avenue along with dead Cuban doctor Guillermo Martinez, she told her mother she was visiting a friend.

-suspect arrested In a pre-dawn raid, bandits entered the yard of a Rosignol, West Bank Berbice businessman on Wednesday and stole his minibus and motorcycle and a suspect has since been taken into custody.

-Lall Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall says in-fighting among the political parties is affecting the work of the Region 4 Regional Democratic Council (RDC).

A 16-year-old charged with the murder of a Canal Number Two grandmother during a robbery in 2008, was recaptured on Wednesday, a day after he escaped from the Turkeyen Police Station lock-ups Police said that an internal investigation has since been launched into the circumstances surrounding the teen’s escape.

-co-accused gets 10 years The wife of drug convict David Narine was yesterday sentenced to time serve and five years supervised release while a co-accused was sentenced to ten years in prison by Judge Edward Korman in a New York court.

A mother of five is now hospitalised after she was brutally attacked by her former common-law husband yesterday morning while on her way to work.

A Herstelling, East Bank Demerara taxi-driver is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he sustained gunshot injuries following a robbery in the city on Monday evening.

Almost three years after the launch of the Crime Stoppers Programme (CSP) that was expected to aid local security, it has been shelved after its implementation was deemed to be too expensive, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said yesterday.

The two gunmen, who fatally shot a Canada-based Guyanese during a robbery at Cool Square bar on Wednesday night, were still at-large up to press time last evening.