Guyana News

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Four Canadian soldiers and a  Canadian journalist were killed when their armored vehicle was  hit by a bomb in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, the  Canadian Defense Ministry said.

Peter Moore, one of five British men taken hostage in Iraq in May 2007, spent years working as a volunteer in both Guyana and China before he was kidnapped in Iraq and finally freed yesterday, the BBC said.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Police in mostly Muslim Senegal  broke up a protest outside the capital Dakar’s cathedral yesterday after Catholics accused the country’s president of  making disparaging comments about Jesus.

Five persons were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital last night after a car and minibus, reportedly speeding, ended up in a ditch just after the junction at Company Path and the East Coast Demerara Public Road.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has started the process to identify a presidential candidate for the 2011 general elections, according to General Secretary Donald Ramotar, who says the nominee could be revealed before the end of next year.

Two men, including a Police Constable stationed in Berbice, were each granted $300,000 bail yesterday after they appeared before the Springlands Magistrate’s Court charged with the December 23 Crabwood Creek robbery.

As a Yarowkabra businessman sat in his vehicle, parked on a trail which runs along his sand pit, two armed men attacked, shot him thrice and escaped with $100,000 cash, a revolver and other items.

The GWTV channel two, transmission tower came crashing down after a heavy downpour in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The Treaty of Basseterre, a new charter carved to establish an Economic Union within the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) was yesterday signed by the leaders from the sub-regional member states in St Kitts and Nevis.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the heavily pregnant Linden mother who succumbed along with her baby, at the Linden Hospital Complex revealed that the she died as a result of a ruptured blood vessel in the head.

The Practical Instruction Centre at Buxton will be in operation for the new school term, according to the Region Four administration.

Two miners, who had their mining permits rescinded by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission recently, had breached mining regulations by entering an area where Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML) had its operations close to the Omai River.

Police say that currently there is no information to suggest foul play was involved in the death of Bagotstown resident Inshan Ali and have denied reports which said that they obtained confessions from two of the man’s relatives.

The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is advising farming communities close to rivers and sea defence infrastructure to take necessary precautions to avoid water accumulation from the spring tide which started yesterday.

Another driver’s licence has been suspended pending the outcome of investigations into a causing death by dangerous driving charge.

Twenty-six-year-old Julius Samuels of Fourth Street, Alberttown, was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment when he appeared before acting chief magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for beating his ex-girlfriend on Christmas Day.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that a 21-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly robbing a woman at knife-point of a quantity of cash among other items.

Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir is optimistic that the ongoing impasse between the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) will be amicably solved even as his ministry continues its efforts to have representatives from the two entities meet.

Canacol Energy Ltd has announced an update of its prospective oil-bearing resources in Guyana as efforts continue for likely second quarter 2010 drilling in the Takutu basin in the Rupununi.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – A representative of Iran’s  Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday opposition  leaders were “enemies of God” who should be executed under the  country’s sharia law.