Guyana News

-study cites poor salaries, conditions Money is a major pull factor for nurses to migrate but a poor working environment also plays a significant role in the country’s nurses leaving, a recent study on nursing migration in Guyana found and a plan is to be devised to staunch this flow.

A man who was allegedly found with a little over six kilos of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri  was charged on Monday.

The Vreed-en-Hoop office of money-transfer agency, MoneyGram was broken into sometime over the weekend and $3.3M was taken away, the police say.

The three-year-old child who was hospitalized on Saturday at the Fort Wellington Hospital after a severe beating is expected to be placed in protective custody and charges are likely to be laid against his relatives.

A special constable attached to the Guyana Power & Light (GPL) office at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice suffered injuries above his left eye and forehead after a glass bottle was thrown at him around 4:15 pm yesterday.

-brother held A 27-year-old woman who was trying to save her sister from being attacked ended up being badly chopped on her head and left hand around 1:30 pm yesterday at Number 29 Village.

A 43-year-old man is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital after he stepped into the path of Fire Service vehicle on Monday.

A burglar was given a severe beating by residents of Campbellville Housing Scheme early yesterday morning shortly after he had broken into at least five homes, stealing cash and cellular phones.

The parents of the Australian who was shot during last month’s attack at Safraz Bar have expressed frustration at their failed attempts to return him to his homeland for urgent medical attention According to yesterday’s edition of the Australian Herald, Jason Montgomery remains in a critical condition here.

A hire car driver was placed on $65,000 bail on a charge of fraudulent conversion on Monday.

CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington told a regional Youth Forum in Suriname last week that free movement within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is being gravely hampered by the Immigration Restriction Acts within member states.

-uncleared conference advances also a worry Overpayments by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for fuel from GuyOil in 2006 have been queried by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.

A Swiss House Cambio cashier was on Monday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for reportedly fraudulently converting monies to his own use and benefit.

A fifty-year-old farmer from the village of Paramakatoi was yesterday remanded on two counts of the indictable charge of carnal knowledge of girls under the age of 15.

A 57-year-old Moruka miner was yesterday remanded on the indictable charge of carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 15 by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

A clothes vendor and a construction worker were yesterday placed on $50,000 bail each when they appeared on a robbery with violence charge before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Five of the 10 American  Baptist missionaries accused of illegally trying to take  children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti left their jail  cells temporarily to plead their case to a judge yesterday.

Two mobile music vendors were placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday  after they pleaded guilty to making loud and continuous noise.

Caricom and Haiti Youth Ambassador Leticia Cadet asked a special meeting of COHSOD to make rebuilding Haiti’s education system a priority “to avoid creating a potentially detrimental gap in qualified human resources.”

EIJING/WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama still  plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said yesterday,  despite China’s warning that such a meeting would hurt ties  already strained by U.S.