Guyana News

An East Bank Demerara businessman yesterday denied burning tyres causing heavy black smoke which made breathing difficult for residents and clouded a section of the Friendship Public Road forcing motorists to proceed with caution.

By Shabna Ullah After living in dilapidated conditions for a number of years, Richard Fresco, 27, and his mother, Virginia Beatrice Giddings of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam have finally found comfort after moving into their new home.

Around 18,000 new registrations were recorded during the just concluded Claims and Objections (C&O) exercise.

Police are investigating an armed robbery which   occurred at about 11 pm on Saturday at Popeye’s Restaurant on  Vlissengen Road during which two bandits attacked and rob a supervisor of some $1.1M before making good their escape.

A 6-year-old girl is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after a concrete wall of a building under construction at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara collapsed yesterday, injuring her in the process.

Guyana in collaboration with India recently carried out a one-week feasibility study to determine a possible location for the construction of a deep water harbour here and the Berbice area has been identified as the most suitable.

–force seeks to boost community relations Roving police teams are to patrol border and interior locations and training of police ranks in Spanish and Portuguese will soon be resumed as the force works to improve police-community relations.

Rebel titillates with ‘All ah we know de man’ By Iana Seales The witty appeals of calypsos are back and judging from the flow of social commentary this year one thing is clear, the country needs to bounce back from the trauma it is in and from an image sullied by the torture of a teenager boy.

Importers and distributors of herbal supplements are required to ensure that  a label has been applied to the  product  and all  herbal ingredients must be declared by the scientific name  of the medicinal plant.

Haiti has identified the town of Leogane and its environs as the preferred location for Caricom’s intervention for displaced persons in Port-au-Prince.

Twenty-year-old Kevin Wiltshire of Agricola, East Bank Demerara was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly using a gun to rob another man of a quantity of cash along with gold jewellery.

A 32-year-old man was placed on $100,000 bail on Thursday for allegedly stealing two gold rings and one gold and diamond ring from a woman he was reportedly having “an illicit connection” with when he made an appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

MARJAH, (Reuters) – NATO rockets killed 12 Afghan  civilians yesterday, the second day of an offensive designed to  impose Afghan government authority on one of the last big  Taliban strongholds in the country’s most violent province.

Two women were on Thursday charged with assaulting each other. Uelliee Ross was placed on $20,000 bail for unlawfully wounding Danita Junior while Junior was placed on $10,000 bail for unlawfully assaulting Ross.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A judicial crisis loomed in  Pakistan yesterday after the Supreme Court blocked an order  from unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari appointing two  judges.

Canadian Vision Care is hosting a four-day outreach exercise at the Kumaka Hospital, Moruca.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s prime minister suspended  two ministers over corruption allegations yesterday after the  president took the same action against eight officials in moves  that will please donors but underline coalition divisions.

Adrian Sunish of South Sophia was remanded to prison on Friday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly fraudulently converting a gold chain to his own use that was given to him by another man to clean.

DOHA – The United States declared yesterday it saw few  alternatives to more sanctions on Iran, saying it sought a  peaceful end to a nuclear standoff but did not want to engage  diplomatically “while they are building their bomb”.

Two young men were jointly charged with unlawful assault and a third man was accused of unlawful and malicious wounding on Wednesday.