Guyana News

A 15-year-old schoolgirl has been missing from home since last Friday and her mother feels the suicidal death of her father five months ago may be a contributing factor.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) elected its executive for the fiscal year 2009/2010 at its recent AGM.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti could start relocating homeless earthquake survivors from its ruined capital this week, but it will need at least five to 10 years of international help to rebuild from the catastrophe, the government said yesterday.

A clothes vendor was placed on $20,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday after he pleaded not guilty to damaging the car bumper of Dexter Garnett.

Masked men robbed a supermarket at Berbice yesterday after attacking the cashier, but public-spirited residents responded and managed to run down one of the men who they later handed over to police.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – All 90 people aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane were feared dead after it plunged into the Mediterranean in a ball of fire, minutes after taking off from Beirut in a raging thunderstorm yesterday.

Three men, one of whom reportedly had a toy gun, robbed a woman in the city yesterday but they were later nabbed by police with the stolen items.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels used by foreigners in the heart of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 36 people and raising questions about government pledges to keep Iraqis safe before a March election.

A 32-year-old pork-knocker was not required to plea to the indictable charge of rape when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Organizers for last week’s “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon, backed by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, yesterday raised the estimated amount of money it raised to more than $61 million, to date.

(Trinidad Express) She did it! Excoriated as a weakling incapable of leading and hiding a drinking weakness, Kamla Persad-Bissessar proved last night she had the political strength to beat two political legends.

A mangrove regeneration project undertaken by the Ministry of Public Works and Communications along the East Coast of Demerara foreshore in the vicinity of Mon Repos has been declared successful but residents in the area have disputed this.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) supervisor who was on duty when 50 pounds of cocaine slipped past officials at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on January 12 has been sent on leave as authorities intensify their investigation into the incident.

A speed-boat loaded with cargo collided with a ‘farm boat’ in the Essequibo River yesterday and quick action by a passing boat saw the rescue of the occupants of the ‘farm boat’.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. soldiers and  Brazilian U.N. troops handed out food and water in one of  Haiti’s largest slums yesterday amid criticism that aid was not  getting to earthquake victims fast enough.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on men to be confident and to define themselves.

-says US$1m waste water treatment plant non-negotiable The high tax levelled on Banks beer in comparison with the rest of the Caribbean  as well as the continuing problem of uncustomed smuggled beer into Guyana remain major concerns, Chairman of Banks DIH, Clifford Reis says.

-says it is biggest hindrance to development Guyana is among the five countries in the region ranked as “repressed” in the Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, which – like last year – lists “oversized government” as the biggest barrier to the country’s development.

The “agony days” is how some residents of South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara refer to the Great Flood of 2005 and they pray those days never come again.

Several persons have come to the aid of Latchmin Soman, the 21-year-old mother of three of Anna Catherina Sea View, West Coast Demerara whose plight was highlighted by Stabroek News after spring tides affected several households in the area two weeks ago.