Guyana News

A regular Sunday afternoon at the Watooka Club swimming pool at Linden came to an abrupt end yesterday after a teenager died Sixteen-year old Marlon Forde left his 608 Block 22 home sometime after 2 pm yesterday with his mother’s blessing after he told her he was going out to a farm with some club members.

Three persons, two from one family, were yesterday afternoon rushed to the George-town Public Hospital (GPH) nursing wounds about their bodies following family-related disputes.

…as Christmas spirit glows Richard Fresco, who has been bedridden for  eight months following an accident at a sawmill, may benefit from the Christmas spirit this year as he, his mother, nieces and nephew have been promised a new home by a benevolent overseas-based Guyanese.

A holiday brawl has left a 33-year-old Matthew’s Ridge man nursing a stab wound at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

National development will not hinge on political cooperation, says President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday labelled European Union Ambassador Geert Heikens’  “disquiet” over reports about the sugar industry as hypocritical since he said the envoy is fully aware that most of the problems stem from the “unilateral and abrupt price cut of thirty-six percent” by the European Commission (EC) for sugar from this country.

…despite pleas from villagers Almost one week since the gruesome murder of 50-year-old, Essequibo River resident Patricia Williams, the suspect remains at large as relatives of the deceased plead with the authorities to apprehend him.

GuySuCo is better equipped to significantly ramp up land expansion at Skeldon, but private farmers are currently making more progress and moving at a more rapid pace in developing the lands, the Guyana Agricultural and General Worker’s Union (GAWU) said.

-mother’s anxiety grows Four-month-old Anjalie may have to have her right arm amputated.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Five people died in Tehran yesterday when pro-reform protesters clashed with security forces,  police said, in the worst outbreak of violence since June’s  contested presidential election sparked political turmoil.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is  investigating whether al Qaeda was involved in a Christmas Day  attempt to blow up a passenger jet, but there is no early  evidence the Nigerian suspect in the case was part of a larger  plot, the U.S.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Members of the Afghan government  are sponsoring slices of the country’s lucrative opium trade, a  senior Afghan minister said, at a time when the president is  under mounting pressure to stamp out state corruption.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – A senior Congress  leader and governor of a southern Indian state resigned after  an alleged sex scandal in another blow to the ruling Congress  party which is facing protests over statehood demands there.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has enforced an order preventing two mining operators from being granted mining permits over a period of five years.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Wall Street is on track to achieve its first  annual advance in two years after staging a strong comeback from the March  lows.

-Local Gov’t Officers Union The Guyana Local Govern-ment Officers Union (GLGOU) has condemned the recent actions of the Russian bauxite company RUSAL after several workers involved in industrial action had their services ended.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber  blew himself up outside a Shi’ite Muslim hall in the Pakistani  part of disputed Kashmir yesterday, killing at least 5 people,  police said.

A Plaisance man is in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after sustaining injuries in an accident.

ANSA McAL on Christmas Day handed out Cheekies Hampers to mothers of babies born on that day.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – A helicopter dropped a $4  million ransom payment yesterday on to the deck of a Chinese  coal ship hijacked by Somali pirates in mid-October, a pirate  source on board the vessel said.