Guyana News

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s government yesterday sharply cut the official death toll from a massive weekend earthquake and ensuing tsunamis to 279 identified bodies, from a previously reported 802 victims, without giving an explantation.

A man was warned on Wednesday by Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry that should he hit his wife again he would go to jail for a long time but on this occasion he was fined $5,000 or three months in prison for unlawfully assaulting her.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A US congressional panel voted yesterday to label as “genocide” the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador from Washington.

Since 2008, several requests to Guyana Water Incorporat-ed (GWI) to have a new perimeter fence constructed at the Central Ruimveldt Iron Removal Treatment Plant went unheeded, and as a result persons had easy access to the hazardous area.

– complaints probed included fighting, drunkenness The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) last year sacked 154 teachers for varying reasons with many dismissed for unauthorised absence from duty or failure to provide the required statutory notice when resigning.

Almost a year-and-a-half after killing his wife with a hatchet, US-based Guy-anese Yetraj “James” Mangar was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to the Times Union.

The Japanese government yesterday handed over 35 solar pumping systems to the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has reported another fraud in the system which was detected by the Internal Audit Division and is estimated to be on the scale of $600,000.

The ongoing El Niño weather phenomenon is affecting the operations of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) with the reducing water levels making irrigation difficult on several estates.

– accomplice escapes A bandit was arrested by police while his accomplice escaped, shortly after they robbed two occupants of a Tucville home of over $2.8 million in jewellery on Tuesday night.

Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday that the Ministry of Health would be publishing the results of the audits of the quality of service that is currently being delivered in the public healthcare system.

Government has decided to expand the remit of the school inspectorate programme, which would now include the additional responsibility of conducting special inspections across the country.

Caribbean Airlines recently increased ticket prices for its Georgetown to Port-of-Spain travel run which local travellers have griped about and government is likely to start examining other avenues to address the issue, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon.

– study finds A little over a quarter of in-school youth between the ages of 15 and 19 are sexually active, according to the findings of a recent behavioural surveillance study, which found that just over 50% of them used a condom their first time.

Police yesterday continued questioning Region Four Regional Executive Officer (REO) Shafdar Ali in relation to a multi-million dollar fraud committed on the state.

– cops seeking husband Police confirmed yesterday that the Crabwood Creek woman who it was claimed died after she fell down her stairs on Monday evening following a drinking spree with her husband was in fact murdered.

Thirty-one-year-old Eon Paul, an ex-policeman of North Ruimveldt, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $70,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly breaking into the Discount Store and stealing several pairs of boots.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton remanded to prison a Laing Avenue man accused of armed robbery, when he on Tuesday appeared to answer to the charges in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The government and the World Bank will be working towards minimising risks and offering insurance solutions to the rice sector, which according to Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud remains especially vulnerable to unpredictable weather and world market prices.

Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Charles Rollins, called ‘Chuckey’, who reportedly stabbed his wife to death on Monday at Ketley Street, Charlestown.