Dharmic Sabha to air new TV programme
The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha is to introduce a new programme, Dharmic Milan, which will air every Sunday at 12:30 pm on NTN Channel 69.
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The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha is to introduce a new programme, Dharmic Milan, which will air every Sunday at 12:30 pm on NTN Channel 69.
Berbice Dutch, a Dutch creole language spoken in Guyana’s ancient county, has been declared officially extinct, according to an article in this month’s issue of the Dutch edition of National Geographic.
CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet pleaded with Chileans yesterday to stop hoarding supplies and help with relief efforts, deflecting criticism that her government was slow to respond to one of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century.
Justice Winston Patterson yesterday upheld no-case submissions made by Attorney-at-Law Mursaline Bacchus and freed a Berbice man who was charged with murder following the cyanide poisoning of his pregnant sister-in-law.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s prime minister demanded more information yesterday about foreign aid pouring into the earthquake-stricken country and urged that his government not be sidelined in reconstruction efforts.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two young children were allowed to direct air traffic, apparently under adult supervision, at John F.
KINSHASA (Reuters) – A UN-backed military operation against Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was launched at the weekend, a UN official said yesterday.
– court hears Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that 25-year-old Otis Noble of East La Penitence be remanded to prison while she placed his brother, Junior Madray on $60,000 bail, when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with beating another man.
NAMETSI, Uganda (Reuters) – Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes yesterday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people.
Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Tuesday remanded to prison an Annandale man accused of possession of ganja for the purpose of trafficking, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge.
KIGALI (Reuters) – President Paul Kagame sought to reassure Rwandans yesterday that the country was safe, two weeks after a triple grenade attack shook the capital Kigali.
– ‘more walk, less talk’ needed from US, Luncheon says Government has again criticized the US administration for what it termed a lack of sustained support in fighting drugs here saying through Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday that the recent drug report out of the US needs to reflect a policy of “more walk, less talk”.
Region 4 Regional Executive Officer (REO) Shafdar Ali turned himself over to police yesterday morning, for questioning in relation to a multi-million dollar fraud on the state.
The boy who drowned in a “backwash lagoon” at Guyana Water Incorporat-ed’s (GWI), Central Ruimveldt Iron Removal treatment plant on Monday has been identified at ten-year-old Akeem Denny of Lamaha Street, Kitty.
Two persons died yesterday afternoon when a mining pit in the Mahdia area in Region 8 caved in during rainy weather.
-study The inability of students to pass the local nursing exams is a major cause of low completion rates and has resulted in a “sub-optimal quality of training,” a recent World Bank study on nursing shortage in the English-speaking Caribbean has found.
A Vincentian woman, who allegedly attempted to export a quantity of cocaine in several Soya Milk packets at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, was yesterday remanded to prison.
Joanna Danhai, who pleaded to manslaughter charges for killing her two children, was sentenced last week to 13 years imprisonment.
-grandmother The grandmother of a five-year-old Sophia boy, who was reportedly brutalised by his father, is worried that more than two weeks after she reported the matter to police, nothing has happened.
The US Embassy in Georgetown is using a new DS-160 visa application form that is entirely online and web-based, and is available at http://georgetown.usembassy.gov/non-immigrant-visas.html.
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