Guyana News

This year, the Stabroek Market area will be enhanced by street lights and a traffic light and will also be cleared of encumbrances to heighten security, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

 – commends Guyanese support to Haitians The PNCR has launched a ‘Shoes for Haiti project’, while also commending Guyanese for the support given to the Haitian people so far.

A mentally challenged Annandale, East Coast Demerara man has been missing for two weeks and his father is appealing for public assistance to locate him.

– pink suitcase probe ongoing There have been no local arrests in connection with the 50lb cocaine bust in New York last week Tuesday, but investigations are continuing Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.

Two months after 16-year-old Vivian Singh Balrup of Reliance, East Canje was brutally murdered at the Number 63 Beach his family, who received conflicting reports about how it occurred, is still grieving his loss as though it occurred yesterday especially since no one has been charged.

It started with a scattered crowd on the National Park tarmac some time after 7 pm and wrapped up with the numbers it needed to record it as a success in terms of attendance; the local concert for Haiti on Friday night was simply good.

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Mosque and government  officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in  a village near the Nigerian city of Jos, victims of what Human  Rights Watch said appeared to have been a targeted massacre. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – International rescuers yesterday pulled a 24-year-old Haitian man alive from the  rubble of a collapsed hotel in the capital Port-au-Prince, 11  days after the earthquake that devastated the city. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – International rescuers  today pulled a 24-year-old Haitian man alive from the  rubble of a collapsed hotel in the capital Port-au-Prince, 11  days after the earthquake that devastated the city.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled two  barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince yesterday as hungry and homeless Haitians clamoured for food, which  was slow in arriving 10 days after the massive earthquake.

-PNCR The main opposition PNCR yesterday said a recent campaign against party leader Robert Corbin is part of a plan by a group of “political power-seekers” who have approached its members to establish an alternative political party.

Canadian oil exploration company Groundstar Resources Inc expects to start drilling for oil in the Rupununi in May.

-raps cop for carelessness The pregnant fruit vendor who was accidently shot in the back by a policeman during a chase on Thursday is calling for the appropriate punishment to be meted out to the rank for his carelessness.

A city businessman was left in shock yesterday when three armed gunmen attacked him in front of his Bel Air Park home and relieved him of $5M before fleeing in a car.

The PNCR is calling on the Auditor General to undertake an immediate audit of the financial operations of those ministries to which sums were “unilaterally voted” by the government in the last sitting of the National Assembly.

-Caricom Caricom has about 36 medical personnel on the ground assisting with the relief efforts in Haiti, Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Jeremy Collymore says, as the Community continues its relief efforts to the earthquake ravaged state.

Dewayne Hunte, 27, of Patentia, West Bank Demerara, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $60,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly obtaining money from a man by pretending that he was in the position to get him a Guyana passport.

– court told Devon Higgins, called ‘Shortman,’ was remanded to prison after he was allegedly caught disposing of marijuana.

-GAWU Conciliatory talks between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) over Annual Production Incentive (API) award for sugar workers for 2009 were deadlocked on Monday.

-exports down, domestic use up The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is preparing to undertake an enlarged scope of activities, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.