Guyana News

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Tuesday launched a week-long training programme for its Marine Unit to boost its capacity to curb tax evasion through smuggling along the foreshores.

The PPP yesterday expressed shock “at the terrible devastation” that Wednesday’s earthquake caused Haiti and expressed its solidarity to the government and people of “our sister country”.

The PNCR says it is shocked at the tragic events in Haiti and it has joined with the government in crafting a national response to the disaster.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling on its members and the nation to assist with its disaster relief effort for earthquake-hit Haiti.

– donates US$5M to relief Digicel, which lost two of its staff in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti on Wednesday, has sent technical experts to assess the situation on the ground to see what support is needed in terms of network equipment and emergency aid.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of  people were feared dead yesterday in Haiti’s catastrophic  earthquake, buried beneath demolished schools, hospitals and  homes, and traumatized citizens milled in streets strewn with  rubble and scattered bodies.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The devastating earthquake  in Haiti is the biggest natural disaster so far in the Twitter  era, and response on the micro-blogging site has been  accordingly momentous.

Twenty-year-old Peter Giddings of Linden was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly breaking and entering a store at Lethem and stealing a quantity of items valued over $3.6M.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Wall Street’s chiefs  acknowledged taking on “too much risk” and having “choked” on  their own cooking, but stopped short of an apology as they  sparred with a commission looking into the origins of the  financial crisis.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Google’s threat to  quit China over censorship and hacking intensified Sino-U.S. 

A Jamaican-born pilot, who was allegedly found with a quantity of cocaine in his suitcase at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, was remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 34-year–old police officer is believed to have committed suicide at Charity on the Essequibo Coast yesterday afternoon, reportedly after a relationship went sour.

BANGALORE, (Reuters Life!) – An Indian company has  found a novel use for the heaps of ecologically unsound plastic  that litter Bangalore: it’s turning it into roads.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Several bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the U.N.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The death toll in  Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake could run to tens of thousands,  the country’s president said today, a day after the  quake demolished schools, hospitals, houses and hillside  shanties across the crowded and improverished capital.

By Sara Bharrat and Mark McGowan Two houses were destroyed and three others scorched after “a disgruntled woman” reportedly started a fire at the home of a local actor.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Eleven Brazilian soldiers from  a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti were killed in the  Caribbean country’s huge earthquake, Brazil’s army said in a  statement today.

After sustaining about 7 gunshot wounds an Alberttown man was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital last night.

-was attending CPCE By Oluatoyin Alleyne By Oluatoyin Alleyne The body that was found with stab wounds at Harlem, West Coast Demerara, has been identified as a 22-year-old Essequibo resident who was staying with relatives at Cummings Lodge New Scheme, East Coast Demerara while she attended the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE).