Guyana News

Linden police nabbed six men and two women as they attempted to demolish and steal the materials of a building belonging to BK International.

– union slams process Fifty-four of the more than 130 casual employees of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) are back on the job as postal apprentices after successfully completing the training organised by the corporation as part of its attempt to regularise and reform its employment practices.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has been appointed to serve as acting President in the absence of the President and Prime Minister, both of whom are overseas on scheduled visits.

Several families were last evening counting their losses following at fire on a dam-adjacent to the Joint Services Housing Scheme at Lamaha Park-burnt three houses to the ground while two had to be pushed into a nearby trench to save others.

PNCR-1G MP’s Deborah Backer’s motion to have Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh questioned before the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges, after he moved to have her disciplined for statements she made about torture, has been deferred.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said CEO Bharat Dindyal will continue at the helm of the company, as it executes a massive development programme.

-victim was drowned, autopsy finds Ramesh Muniram, the man who allegedly killed his wife before dumping her body into a canal at Nismes, West Bank Demerara, was yesterday charged with murder, hours after a post-mortem examination revealed that she died from asphyxiation due to drowning.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has discontinued proceedings against a mother of six charged with attempting suicide.

The last thing Mark Noel expected to find when he returned home from the interior was another man in his bed.

A team from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Law Enforcement Division discovered about 80 five-gallon jars of illegal fuel abandoned in a boat at LBI yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The catastrophic  earthquake that struck Haiti could not have been predicted,  experts said yesterday, but seismologists have made progress in  identifying areas likely to be hit by major quakes in the next  few decades.

Port au Prince (Reuters) – Clean water and antibiotics are among  the biggest needs for Haiti, where the capital was devastated  by a huge earthquake that killed up to 100,000 people, health  experts say.

A seven-year-old boy, of Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie Linden, is the latest victim of an accident in the mining town.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Haiti’s government agreed  on Friday to grant temporary control of the nation’s main  airport to the United States to speed earthquake relief work,  the State Department said.

The body of an elderly man was discovered early yesterday morning in the Sussex Street Canal, Georgetown and the man’s youngest daughter is hoping that no foul play was involved.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Cuban government has  agreed to let the U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian authorities said  today they believe 140,000 people were killed in the  earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation and said gangs  of robbers were preying on survivors desperately awaiting aid.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Thousands of people  injured in Haiti’s massive earthquake spent a third night  twisted in pain, lying on sidewalks and waiting for help as  their despair turned to anger.

-was to be paid US$6,000 Questions are being raised as to how authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri failed to detect a suitcase with some 24 kilogrammes of cocaine which was intercepted later at the JFK airport in New York.

Ramesh Muniram, who fled into thick bush behind Unity Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Wednesday after allegedly murdering his wife, turned up at the La Grange Police Station yesterday with a relative shortly after his mother was detained for questioning.