Guyana News

LONDON (Reuters) – Taliban fighters, who launched an assault in Kabul yesterday, have been ordered to attack in as many places as possible to try to make it look as though they are everywhere, the head of the British army said.

Digicel yesterday announced that its network is now functioning well in Port-au-Prince, Haiti as more and more customers are connecting and are being able to make and receive calls, text messages, email and BlackBerry messenger messages.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif (Reuters) – A pair of box office sensations, Avatar and The Hangover, earned top film honours at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in a ceremony that took on a sombre tone after the recent earthquake in Haiti.

Three Mexican Armed Forces planes have been sent to Haiti carrying between 15 and 20 tonnes of food as well as doctors, rescue workers, engineers and civil protection technicians and personnel, following the catastrophic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince last week Tuesday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The United States was  sending more troops today to help protect a huge relief  operation in Haiti from marauding looters as tens of thousands  of earthquake survivors waited desperately for promised food  and medical care.

Security cameras at the entrance of a building in the area where Nicholas Hoyte was murdered last Tuesday may have footage of the car which transported his murderer.

The driver of a Toyota Surf vehicle, PHH 471, that was reportedly racing a group of CBR bikers caused serious damage to a house belonging to a 63-year-old man at Lovely Lass, West Coast Berbice around 7 last evening.

`We are not asking you to take guns and run behind the criminal but we are asking you to pass on information to us and let us do the fighting’ Ways of improving policing, community policing and the relationship between the two were discussed at this year’s first Police Outreach Programme yesterday in Kitty.

– US company reneged on promise to compensate By Gaulbert Sutherland Removed from the life he once knew, goldsmith Tulsiram Sukdeo prepares to undergo yet another operation as he fights for compensation from the US-based company involved in the boat accident that maimed him, leaving him unable to earn a livelihood.

A 23-year-old man was electrocuted yesterday morning by an exposed wire at his Felicity workplace.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday again told Black Bush Polder residents that plans are in train to upgrade the main road at a cost of US$7M. 

Persons who have been involuntarily returned to Guyana now have the opportunity to access assistance from the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) to start up a business.

Reconstruction of the 6.2 miles Mahaicony Branch Road has been completed at a cost of $175M.

A 38-year-old man of unsound mind died after he was hit by a mini-bus while reportedly trying to cross the road at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Saturday evening.

A roadblock mounted by the Linden Police at Bamia along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway yesterday resulted in the arrest of a 27-year-old man.

Life sometimes moves slowly in the Rupununi. And for one man, it is an agonising wait to collect his salary for the past year with officials only telling him to be patient.

Carl Newton, 36, of 20 Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt was placed on $15,000 bail last Thursday for unlawfully assaulting Alicia Blackman on January 10.

The Ministry of Agriculture has opened discussions with  livestock farmers in particular within a six-mile radius of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri with a view to determining alternative placement for them.

Thirty-one-year-old Dwayne Little called `Tattoo’ of 2707 Billimby Place, South Ruimveldt was on Friday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly using a gun to rob another man of a quantity of gold in the Puruni, Bartica area last year.

Thirty-year-old Dwight Heywood of South Ruimveldt was remanded to prison on Friday when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly slashing another man in his face with a broken glass bottle.