Guyana News

-relatives baffled Relatives yesterday identified the bloodied body that was found on the Kingston seashore behind the Guyana Forestry Commission a day earlier as Llewelyn Fitzgerald Campbell called Elton of Lamaha Street, Kitty.

A man, who police were seeking in relation to a string of recent robberies in the Ruimveldt area, was shot in the groin by a cop yesterday in Roxanne Burnham Gardens.

-commercial banks donate The Guyana National Com-mittee for Haiti Relief has netted over $230M in cash and there have also been several donations in kind which head of the committee, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand said can be used to provide sustained assistance.

The El Nino phenomenon currently being experienced countrywide has caused the water level in the East Demerara Water Conservancy to drop to a level below the lowest design safe level for irrigation.

As attorney-at-law Trenton Lake slept, bandits invaded his home during the wee hours of yesterday morning carting off items worth more than $1M.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it repaired 19, 393 leaks last year.

Attorney-at-law Anil Nandlall says he has filed an appeal in the Buddy’s fuel case and is awaiting a date for the matter to be heard.

Thirty-year-old Odessa Stoby, called Odessa Mingo, accused of being the hairdresser who placed a quantity of cocaine in another woman’s wig, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer a trafficking in narcotics charge.

A 48-year-old seaman accused of having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl was granted bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir is refuting recent statements made by Opposition Leader Robert Corbin and  says that his Ministry has been doing  all in its power to intercede in the dispute between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and RUSAL’s Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

The pastor of the Linden Church of Christ recounted on Monday how he advanced on a gunman even though he had already been shot and the man was still firing at him.

“Everything belongs to me,” stated 23-year-old Imran Khan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday shortly before he was jailed for five years and ordered to pay a fine of $55,000 for cultivating cannabis plants and being in possession of a shotgun without a firearm licence.

The husband of the Stabroek Market vendor who was fatally wounded by a businessman last August says that he is seeing evidence of “foot-dragging” by the police as charges are yet to be laid and he is disappointed that a promise to offer compensation has not been fulfilled.

In the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake, the Princess Hotel and GEMS Theatre Productions are teaming up to host a ‘Benefit Concert for Haiti’ on Saturday at the Princess Hotel Poolside.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The key to working in a  disaster zone hospital, where casualties pile up faster than  patients can be discharged, is to avoid getting emotionally  involved, says Dr.

Joanna Danhai, the mother on trial for the murder of her two children, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the High Court yesterday and is to be sentenced next month.

The paint samples from the boat involved in last year’s collision in the Essequibo River that left two men dead and 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine missing are still to be tested by police.

– Australian general CANBERRA,  (Reuters) – Australia’s former military  chief has characterised recent attacks on Indian students as  racially motivated, rejecting Canberra’s official line that the  violence has been purely criminal rather than racist.

JOS, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – More than 150 Nigerians  have been killed and dozens injured in three days of clashes  between Muslim and Christian gangs in the central city of Jos,  where police imposed a 24-hour curfew, residents said.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says it is necessary to have significant progress in the area of contingent rights in light of hindrances to the establishment of a protocol on those rights.