Guyana News

The Ministry of Agriculture is embarking on a project to supply cattle feed utilizing the remains of rice straw mixed with molasses and urea to create a higher quality of feed.

NIAMEY, (Reuters) – Millions of people are threatened  by famine in Niger, the new military ruler said yesterday in a  message that contrasted starkly with his predecessor’s  reluctance to talk about food shortages.

The Leader of the Justice For All Party (JFAP) CN Sharma has called on all Guyanese to work together for justice, peace and righteousness and to aim to break down the barriers between rich and poor.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) notes that, as in the case of Christmas to Christians, the festival of  Phagwah can attract even non-Hindus to its infectious environment and general merriment  making it truly national in character.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The killers of a Hamas commander  drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said yesterday.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha  has said that Holi will be celebrated  countrywide  today.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan oil company PDVSA  may withdraw from the 320,000 barrel-per-day Isla refinery it  operates in Curacao to protest U.S.

CONCEPCION, Chile, (Reuters) – A massive earthquake  and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town,  pushing the total death toll higher yesterday as the government  tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting.

The government’s failure to honour a promise to seek foreign aid to solve the murder of Satyadeow Sawh has prompted one of the late Minister’s relatives to ask the Canadian government for help in accessing Roger Khan who it is believed has vital information.

CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – One of the world’s  most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile yesterday, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings  and triggering a tsunami that threatened Pacific coastlines as  far away as Hawaii and Russia.

Rice officials and a private sector team will be visiting Venezuela to revise the US$18.8M contract which should have seen 50,000 tonnes of paddy and rice shipped to the neighbouring state.

The latest attempts by the administration to upgrade Bartica, Charity, Parika and Supenaam into towns are likely to be delayed by the holding of Local Government Elections, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall says.

-Transport Minister Construction work on the airstrip in the Essequibo River island of Wakenaam is slated for completion by the end of April this year and the administration expects to construct and commission an airstrip on the sister island of Leguan before the end of the year.

– police awaiting results to continue probe David ‘Biscuit’ Leander’s toxicology samples have been sitting in a Trinidadian lab for several months now and until the police here receive those results, their investigation into the baffling death is at a standstill.

It took Ruth Bart nearly four hours to get a minibus to the city from her Friendship, East Bank Demerara home on a regular day when buses were passing every few minutes.

The Brazilian man who is wanted in his homeland for killing a policeman remains in police custody here and will soon be charged with a larceny offence.

A Russian national died yesterday morning shortly after a tree branch fell on his head while he was a member of a party cutting a road in the Port Kaituma, North West District area.

An accident yesterday afternoon involving a minibus and another vehicle saw 17 persons being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment.

A stabbing incident yesterday afternoon in South Ruimveldt saw a man being taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital in serious condition.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The race for Colombia’s  presidency began yesterday, with former defence minister Juan  Manuel Santos the favourite after the South American nation’s  popular incumbent was blocked from running for a third term.