Guyana News

ROME, (Reuters) – A Roman Catholic Cardinal told  homosexuals and transsexuals yesterday they would never get  into heaven, prompting a rebuke from the Vatican itself.

Police recovered a quantity of marijuana from a house in the Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo area yesterday during an operation in which four female juveniles were  found imbibing   alcohol in the company of a male adult.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Meredith Baxter, a  star of the 1980’s sitcom “Family Ties”, said yesterday she  was a lesbian as media reports and published photos of her and  a woman embracing began to surface in public.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communication is reconstructing 15 metres of concrete slope at the Cornelia Ida sluice as part of its rehabilitation and sea defence programme.

A bag containing checkered pants and bones was discovered by a hunter in Wakenaam a few days ago and relatives believe that they are the remains of 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine, the boy missing since a boat collision in the Essequibo River almost four months ago.

-gunman exited vehicle and aimed at him A D’Urban Street man is nursing a gunshot wound to the elbow after he was attacked on Charlotte Street yesterday as he attempted to park his car.

Government is moving ahead with the controversial Kingston hotel project with some of the same persons who were linked to the first ill-fated bid for a Marriott-managed facility.

By Cathy Richards The two gun-toting bandits who carted off in excess of $7M from the Wismar Post Office on Monday eluded residents of Silvertown before making their escape in a white car which was in waiting in the vicinity of Half Mile.

Attempts to recalibrate the mandate of the Doha Development Round and the imminent conclusion of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute on EU tariffs on bananas constitute issues of serious Caribbean concern, CARICOM said in a statement to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo was recently nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts on behalf of climate change, this newspaper has confirmed.

Work is ongoing to have the Haag Bosch solid waste management facility on the East Bank of Demerara operational early next year even as residents living near the Mandela Landfill continue to feel the effects of a fire which erupted at the site two weeks ago.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad last week commissioned the Atta eco tourism lodge and a gas station at Lethem as steps move apace to boost tourism and open Region Nine for business.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr  Steve  Surujbally has given the assurance that the Commission recognizes the Alliance For Change  and the Guyana Action Party-Rise Organize and Rebuild Guyana “as legitimate components of the combined opposition political parties in parliament,” a media release stated.

A bill which “seeks to provide for mutual assistance in criminal matters between Guyana and Commonwealth countries or other countries with which Guyana has a treaty concerning such assistance” was on Thursday tabled in the National Assembly by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.

-rate of infections up in Caribbean Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says assessments of the region’s response to the AIDS-causing HIV show a mixed scorecard, with a 2009 update by UNAIDS and the WHO indicating that between 2001 and 2008, there was a 9% increase in the rate of HIV infections in the Caribbean.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has concluded that there is no evidence to charge a policeman in the death of Ramesh Sawh at the Enmore Police Station last January, prompting his relatives to consider private criminal charges.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai has disclosed that the doors to the new dormitory at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, are expected to be opened by April 2010 to facilitate students of the hinterland scholarship programme.

The Guyana Association of Bankers (GAB) says that the decision of the Guyana government to increase the ceiling for low income mortgage loans reinforces the administration’s commitment to affordable housing.

Six of the 10 persons who survived the horrific smash-up between a minibus and a SUV on a lonely stretch of road in the North Rupununi Savannahs, Region Nine are now recovering at the Georgetown Hospital.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a nineteen-year-old when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old schoolgirl.