Guyana News

Urel Cummings attacked two police ranks with a kitchen knife on Tuesday and was shot as a result, the police force says.

The Guyana government announced yesterday that it is prepared to meet the travel costs of all Guyanese nationals in Haiti who are desirous of returning to Guyana in the wake of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit that country  last Tuesday with  disastrous consequences.

-Persaud Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud says the sugar industry is bouncing back from a difficult period and will diversify this year to the production of packaged sugar on a wide scale to boost revenue.

A self-described women’s collective is urging mothers and other women to participate in activities it has planned to assist mothers in Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A new earthquake shook  the devastated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince early yesterday, rattling already wrecked buildings and triggering  panic among survivors of last week’s devastating quake.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government is being “inept and opportunistic” in requesting that the World Bank remove forestry activist, Dr Janette Bulkan from a Technical Advisory Panel.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Earthquake-ravaged Haiti  turned down an offer of troops from the neighboring Dominican  Republic, forcing the United Nations to look elsewhere for  additional peacekeepers, U.N.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A benefit for Haiti that will  feature dozens of stars and a collaboration by U2 singer Bono  and rapper Jay-Z will be the most widely distributed telethon  to reach viewers across the globe, MTV said yesterday.

Five men and two women who were recently arrested  by police at Linden after they reportedly were  illegally removing a quantity of materials from a building at Dalawalla, Wismar, Linden appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic congressional  leaders promised yesterday to push ahead with healthcare  reform despite a stinging setback in a Senate election, but  failed to agree quickly on a new approach.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud is urging all men to participate in the week of activities to mark National Men’s Week.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A new earthquake shook  the devastated Haitian capital this morning, creating  panic among survivors of last week’s devastating quake camped  out in the streets but apparently causing no new destruction.

-relatives baffled Relatives yesterday identified the bloodied body that was found on the Kingston seashore behind the Guyana Forestry Commission a day earlier as Llewelyn Fitzgerald Campbell called Elton of Lamaha Street, Kitty.

A man, who police were seeking in relation to a string of recent robberies in the Ruimveldt area, was shot in the groin by a cop yesterday in Roxanne Burnham Gardens.

-commercial banks donate The Guyana National Com-mittee for Haiti Relief has netted over $230M in cash and there have also been several donations in kind which head of the committee, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand said can be used to provide sustained assistance.

The El Nino phenomenon currently being experienced countrywide has caused the water level in the East Demerara Water Conservancy to drop to a level below the lowest design safe level for irrigation.

As attorney-at-law Trenton Lake slept, bandits invaded his home during the wee hours of yesterday morning carting off items worth more than $1M.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it repaired 19, 393 leaks last year.

Attorney-at-law Anil Nandlall says he has filed an appeal in the Buddy’s fuel case and is awaiting a date for the matter to be heard.

Thirty-year-old Odessa Stoby, called Odessa Mingo, accused of being the hairdresser who placed a quantity of cocaine in another woman’s wig, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer a trafficking in narcotics charge.