Guyana News

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.

Atma Rajaram returned to the stand for cross examination by the defence yesterday, when the New Building Society (NBS) multi million dollar fraud case continued.

-court hears A young woman was yesterday charged with escaping from the Bartica Police Station, shortly after she had been held for allegedly being in possession of marijuana.

-to target rice sector An assessment to evaluate the risks faced by the local agriculture sector with emphasis on the rice supply chain and the feasibility of agriculture risk transfer and insurance solutions for the sector is to begin soon.

-education officer unaware of shortage A month’s supply of food stuff was provided to the Port Kaituma Secondary School dormitory yesterday, three days after the children who occupy the facility were sent home because of the lack of food.

A Crabwood Creek, Berbice woman, who was abused by her husband on Monday while they were consuming alcohol, died after she reportedly fell from her stairs later that evening.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington urged newly appointed chairman to the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) Karen Nunez-Tesheira to pursue the agenda for developing the CSME and joint initiatives to combat the effects that the global financial crisis continues to have on the Region.

–symposium hears Panellists at the first seminar in the University of Guyana 40th Republic Anniversary Public Symposia Series focused on Science and Technology said there is need for change in the management of natural resources, so that when they are exploited for livelihood it is not at the expense of the physical environment.

After seventy-five years of high-quality teaching and outstanding results at national examinations, St Margaret’s Primary School continues the tradition of improving the social and academic performance of its charges as reflected in its motto ‘To Be The Best I Can Be.’

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A landslide in eastern Uganda   has killed at least 80 people and villagers are digging with  bare hands and simple tools in the hope of finding survivors, a  government minister and Ugandan media said yesterday.