Guyana News

By Cathy Richards An investigation carried out by the Regional Health Department of  Region Ten stated that there was no foetal heartbeat prior to the death of Tricia Winth who succumbed with her baby in utero at the Linden Hospital Complex on 26th December 2009.

The National Ophthalmology Hospital in Port Mourant, Berbice saw over 11,000 patients for various eye aliments in 2009, according to a Government Information Agency release.

The Mayor and City Council will be removing all “objectionable structures” on pavements, parapets and other thoroughfares today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Enzyme-blocking chemicals in  pomegranates may reduce the risk of estrogen-fueled breast  cancers, U.S.

The Region Three Regional Administration Office feted more than 40 patients at the West Demerara Regional Hospital with gifts for the New Year.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Danish shipping and oil group  A.P. Moller-Maersk disclosed yesterday that it  hired a Tanzanian navy vessel in late 2008 to keep pirates off  its Brigit Maersk tanker in waters off Somalia.

Quacy Glasgow and Kenny Pinder were both remanded to prison yesterday after a robbery-under-arms charge was read to them by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The attempted Christmas Day  bombing of a U.S.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday fined and imprisoned two men found with utensils used in the smoking of cocaine.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Dutch authorities have seized  more than a tonne of cocaine hidden among containers of whisky  on a cargo shipment from Jamaica, their largest seizure ever  from the island nation.

Twenty—seven-year-old Desmond Rigby of Sophia was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday accused of chopping a man on his head and left shoulder with a cutlass.

A German non-governmental organisation (NGO) on December 31 donated 19 solar panels to the Guyana government which are to be used in providing power to hinterland communities.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (Reuters) – Google Inc took  the wraps off the first of its smartphones yesterday, a device  with speech recognition that it hopes can take on Apple’s  iPhone over time and help shore up the company’s dominance in  Internet advertising.

Abuse of the sewerage system and how it affects the city will be the highlight of a television programme by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) tomorrow.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford’s lawyers on  Tuesday asked an appeals court for the second time to review a  judge’s decision denying the accused swindler bail.

The housing authorities yesterday morning swooped down on a group of squatters who attempted to settle on state land close to the cane fields aback Anna Catherina, just days after a spring tide felled some of their homes and flooded their yards.

An eight-year-old Guyanese boy died yesterday in Suriname after he set himself afire with a firecracker but his father is not happy with the explanation for his death and plans to approach authorities in the hope of triggering an investigation.

-Prime Minister Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has said that a final draft of the Broadcast Bill is currently being reviewed before it is tabled in Parliament and he is rejecting claims that the administration has downplayed a High Court ruling on broadcast licences.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) has sacked over 130 casual workers to regularise its employment system–a move that sparked a protest yesterday by the ex-employees who deemed their dismissals unfair.

The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has written to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) asking it “to commence a public inquiry into charges of discrimination” against Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) employees and the union.