Guyana News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – International rescuers  today pulled a 24-year-old Haitian man alive from the  rubble of a collapsed hotel in the capital Port-au-Prince, 11  days after the earthquake that devastated the city.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled two  barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince yesterday as hungry and homeless Haitians clamoured for food, which  was slow in arriving 10 days after the massive earthquake.

-PNCR The main opposition PNCR yesterday said a recent campaign against party leader Robert Corbin is part of a plan by a group of “political power-seekers” who have approached its members to establish an alternative political party.

Canadian oil exploration company Groundstar Resources Inc expects to start drilling for oil in the Rupununi in May.

-raps cop for carelessness The pregnant fruit vendor who was accidently shot in the back by a policeman during a chase on Thursday is calling for the appropriate punishment to be meted out to the rank for his carelessness.

A city businessman was left in shock yesterday when three armed gunmen attacked him in front of his Bel Air Park home and relieved him of $5M before fleeing in a car.

The PNCR is calling on the Auditor General to undertake an immediate audit of the financial operations of those ministries to which sums were “unilaterally voted” by the government in the last sitting of the National Assembly.

-Caricom Caricom has about 36 medical personnel on the ground assisting with the relief efforts in Haiti, Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Jeremy Collymore says, as the Community continues its relief efforts to the earthquake ravaged state.

Dewayne Hunte, 27, of Patentia, West Bank Demerara, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $60,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly obtaining money from a man by pretending that he was in the position to get him a Guyana passport.

– court told Devon Higgins, called ‘Shortman,’ was remanded to prison after he was allegedly caught disposing of marijuana.

-GAWU Conciliatory talks between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) over Annual Production Incentive (API) award for sugar workers for 2009 were deadlocked on Monday.

-exports down, domestic use up The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is preparing to undertake an enlarged scope of activities, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

The Linmine Secretariat said repairs to the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge are likely to continue for another 10 weeks.

The National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) recently commissioned several tilapia ponds in Region 7 that are to benefit farmers from the Lower Mazaruni and Cuyuni areas.

-as summit opens Guyanese men were yesterday urged to accept their roles in society, at a leadership summit that opened at the National Cultural Centre.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded a man for allegedly being found with a quantity of cannabis in his possession.

Magistrate Ann McLennan fined two brothers a total of $190,000 for four traffic offences when they on Tuesday appeared in the Christianburg Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) issued a public appeal last evening for assistance in the investigation of the murder of school teacher Luciana Bhagwandin, whose body was found on a dam in Harlem, West Coast Demerara on January 10.

A CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission will be in St. Kitts and Nevis for the country’s general elections scheduled for Monday.

-apply early, urges Anthony Minister of Culture Frank Anthony yesterday issued an appeal for prospective participants in various Mashramani competitions to send in entries early.