Guyana News

– as new Linden facility opens Government is placing special emphasis on the staffing of new and existing medical facilities through an ambitious programme which seeks to improve health care through partnership, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday when he opened the new Linden Hospital Com-plex (LHC).

By Oluatoyin Alleyne in New York Should Judge John Gleeson take the advice of the New York Probation Department on board, Robert Simels, the former of lawyer of drug convict Roger Khan, could draw 30 years to life when his sentence is handed down in a Brooklyn Federal Court tomorrow.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a police constable be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court for allegedly indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a police station.

By Mark McGowan The ongoing dispute between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and management of the RUSAL Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) yesterday intensified, when the company terminated the Collective Labour Agreement and disclosed its intention to move to have the union “derecognized”.

History was created in the Guyana Defence Force on Tuesday when 20884 Woman Private (W/PTE) Melika Scotland graduated as the first ever female paratrooper and proudly received her paratrooper’s wings.

Police yesterday contacted the hunter who said that he had seen a bag with what appeared to be human remains thought to be that of Ricky Jainarine over a month ago at a Wakenaam beach.

– David Narine still waiting despite plea for early date By Oluatoyin Alleyne in New York For the third time in less than two months former race car driver and businessman Peter Morgan has had his sentencing on a narco-trafficking offence postponed in a Brooklyn Federal Court.

Almost two months after having their business destroyed in the first of the two Regent Street fires, the proprietor of DM Beauty World Mokesh Daby yesterday received a $30 million fire insurance payout from Hand-in-Hand Fire Insurance.

Direct impacts on individuals in indigenous villages surrounding the proposed Romanex gold-mining project at Marudi, Region Nine would be limited but there are potential indirect impacts that create social risks.

An accident on the Schoonord Public Road opposite the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) last evening briefly held up traffic after the driver of a Toyota AT192 motor car lost control of the vehicle and collided with a Nissan motor car.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Twenty-two developing nations  agreed yesterday to cut tariffs on manufactured products in a  bid to boost South-South trade in the absence of progress in the  WTO’s Doha round of global talks.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and his entourage narrowly avoided what could have been a major accident yesterday when their lead vehicle suffered a puncture, lost control and flipped several times before coming to a halt in some bush along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Depart-ment  asked a court yesterday for permission to seek the names of  American clients of Texas financier Allen Stanford who may be  hiding assets abroad to evade taxes.

Guyana has been building a coalition with other tropical forest countries as a crucial climate summit approaches next week in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Three female students of a secondary school were detained at the Fort Wellington Police Station after they were found in an abandoned house at Hopetown, West Berbice on Tuesday with three men from the village.

NEW DELHI/LONDON, (Reuters) – China and other big  developing nations rejected core targets for a climate deal  such as halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 just  five days before talks start in Copenhagen, diplomats said  yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s July  2011 date for the start of a U.S.

A 19-year-old of Highbury, East Bank Berbice lost his life after he was struck by a live utility wire at Betsy Ground, East Canje around 5 pm on Saturday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York state lawmakers voted  on Wednes-day against legalizing gay marriage, dashing gay  rights activists’ hopes it would become the sixth U.S.

One man is in police custody following an armed robbery which occurred on Tuesday night at 14 Miles Arakaka, Port Kaituma, North West District during which a shop was attacked by a man armed with a gun, who shot a male customer  in the process.