Guyana News

A father is agonising over the fate of his three-year-old daughter, who was molested allegedly by a relative, as he believes she may be further harmed since she was returned to the same environment.

Fifteen representatives at the policy-making level began meeting on Friday to discuss a Disaster Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (DANA) system for Guyana.

Another man’s body was fished out of the Sussex Street Canal in the vicinity of the La Penitence Market yesterday morning, but was unidentified up to press time.

In the continuing efforts to raise funds for the victims of earthquake ravaged Haiti, the School of the Nations and the Varqua Foundation yesterday raised $300,000 through a car wash initiative.

Shoppers in the Stabroek Market area scampered for cover yesterday just before noon when police fired shots behind a fleeing man who was earlier caught with a toy gun.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  on Saturday declared one of the largest relief efforts in US  history to help Haiti’s earthquake victims as survivors begged  for aid still only trickling through to them and looters fought  in the streets.

Guyana should learn from the recent tragic events in Haiti and review its own disaster preparedness strategy, the PNCR says.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton assured Haiti’s quake-ravaged people yesterday the United States would work with their government to  ensure the country emerges “stronger and better” after this  week’s disaster.

KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan parliament rejected  over half of President Hamid Karzai’s second slate of cabinet  nominees yesterday, including two out of three women, dealing  him a second major political blow in as many weeks.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha recently celebrated 36 years of its existence with a series of satsangs at mandirs across the country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s main hospital is  open again, but there are no doctors and few medical supplies  and wailing injured earthquake victims litter the grounds,  waiting for treatment on makeshift beds.

-survivors flee city, looting spreads PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  declared one of the largest relief efforts in U.S.

-see bleak future for industry Story and photographs by Alva Solomon A Black Sigatoka infection is threatening the local banana and plantain industries and farmers in the Tuschen area are already counting their losses as the disease has destroyed several acres of plantain trees.

–telethon nets over $8.7M Persons and companies have responded positively to calls to contribute to assist earthquake-devastated Haiti and $8.7 million was pledged in a telethon on NCN television on Thursday night, even as more donations continued to pour in yesterday.

By Ayanna Blair Ashanti Goodridge, the woman who started Tuesday’s Waterloo Street fire which destroyed two houses, yesterday pleaded guilty to arson, for which she was sentenced to five years imprisonment.

Water gushed into several Ogle, East Coast Demerara yards yesterday, raising concern among residents after a culvert opened by GuySuCo caused a trench to overflow.

By Mark McGowan Government paid the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Inc.

GuySuCo produced a total 233,733 tonnes of sugar last year, the Corporation revealed during the first conciliatory meeting with GAWU over the payment of the Annual Production Incentive (API) to sugar workers on Tuesday.

– suitcase did no go through ‘normal’ route A local investigation has been launched into how a suitcase with 24 kilos of cocaine intercepted in the US somehow slipped authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

By Zoisa Fraser The suspected robber who was shot in the thigh by the police at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara on Thursday died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Hospital after undergoing surgery.