Guyana News

KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan parliament rejected  over half of President Hamid Karzai’s second slate of cabinet  nominees yesterday, including two out of three women, dealing  him a second major political blow in as many weeks.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha recently celebrated 36 years of its existence with a series of satsangs at mandirs across the country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s main hospital is  open again, but there are no doctors and few medical supplies  and wailing injured earthquake victims litter the grounds,  waiting for treatment on makeshift beds.

-survivors flee city, looting spreads PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  declared one of the largest relief efforts in U.S.

-see bleak future for industry Story and photographs by Alva Solomon A Black Sigatoka infection is threatening the local banana and plantain industries and farmers in the Tuschen area are already counting their losses as the disease has destroyed several acres of plantain trees.

–telethon nets over $8.7M Persons and companies have responded positively to calls to contribute to assist earthquake-devastated Haiti and $8.7 million was pledged in a telethon on NCN television on Thursday night, even as more donations continued to pour in yesterday.

By Ayanna Blair Ashanti Goodridge, the woman who started Tuesday’s Waterloo Street fire which destroyed two houses, yesterday pleaded guilty to arson, for which she was sentenced to five years imprisonment.

Water gushed into several Ogle, East Coast Demerara yards yesterday, raising concern among residents after a culvert opened by GuySuCo caused a trench to overflow.

By Mark McGowan Government paid the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Inc.

GuySuCo produced a total 233,733 tonnes of sugar last year, the Corporation revealed during the first conciliatory meeting with GAWU over the payment of the Annual Production Incentive (API) to sugar workers on Tuesday.

– suitcase did no go through ‘normal’ route A local investigation has been launched into how a suitcase with 24 kilos of cocaine intercepted in the US somehow slipped authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

By Zoisa Fraser The suspected robber who was shot in the thigh by the police at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara on Thursday died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Hospital after undergoing surgery.

Linden police nabbed six men and two women as they attempted to demolish and steal the materials of a building belonging to BK International.

– union slams process Fifty-four of the more than 130 casual employees of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) are back on the job as postal apprentices after successfully completing the training organised by the corporation as part of its attempt to regularise and reform its employment practices.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has been appointed to serve as acting President in the absence of the President and Prime Minister, both of whom are overseas on scheduled visits.

Several families were last evening counting their losses following at fire on a dam-adjacent to the Joint Services Housing Scheme at Lamaha Park-burnt three houses to the ground while two had to be pushed into a nearby trench to save others.

PNCR-1G MP’s Deborah Backer’s motion to have Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh questioned before the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges, after he moved to have her disciplined for statements she made about torture, has been deferred.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said CEO Bharat Dindyal will continue at the helm of the company, as it executes a massive development programme.

-victim was drowned, autopsy finds Ramesh Muniram, the man who allegedly killed his wife before dumping her body into a canal at Nismes, West Bank Demerara, was yesterday charged with murder, hours after a post-mortem examination revealed that she died from asphyxiation due to drowning.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has discontinued proceedings against a mother of six charged with attempting suicide.