Guyana News

She wanted to make a real difference and yesterday, relatives and friends of Pamela McCarroll, the Project Trust volunteer, who died after falling off a cliff in the Kanuku Mountains last year, donated equipment worth $2.5 mil Some 571 students of the Region Nine educational institution witnessed the handing over of a Risograph machine, a photocopying machine, a quantity of printing paper and ink for the machines as well as an air-conditioning unit.

Another big-name fast food enterprise promises to whet local appetites with delicious pies when Mario’s Pizza opens its doors shortly.

– health officer Region Nine Health Officer Eugene Xavier said he had informed the regional administration about Juan Carlos Stapleton Rodriguez about a week and a half ago, after the man submitted a proposal for opening a clinic, which he had already started to build.

– RamsammyMinister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy said Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) remains one of the more stigmatized groups in the country, which he said poses a problem in the fight against HIV.

The security guard who was found murdered in the compound of the Soesdyke NDC compound on Saturday died from compound injuries to the head, chest and neck.

A labourer accused of stealing a quantity of car accessories from another man’s car was yesterday admitted to $10,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will propose an emissions reduction target at UN climate change talks in Copenhagen in December with an eye toward winning support from US lawmakers who must agree to put it into law.

Kenneth Vaughn, the security guard who was discovered dead at his Alexander Street and North Road workplace, died from bleeding and a fractured skull.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The world’s first permanent war crimes court opens its second trial today when two Congolese warlords face charges they ordered subordinates to attack civilians, rape women and enlist child soldiers.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Khartoum’s UN envoy, rejecting a bleak UN assessment of the situation in Sudan’s conflict-torn western Darfur region, said yesterday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave.

Sixteen prisoners, who appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday to be further remanded, behaved in a disorderly manner using obscene language and throwing food and drink on the floor.

The Hydromet office is forecasting that the dry weather phenomenon, El Nino, will strengthen in December even as its effects are being felt at the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country crossover star Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning five prizes including artist of the year.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah has dissolved parliament halfway through its four-year term and called for early elections, state television reported yesterday.

A miner will appear in the Bartica Magistrate’s Court today after he was found with an unlicensed  gun and two matching rounds during a police operation in the El Passo Backdam, 14 Miles Issano on Friday night.

CAIRO – Israel has softened its terms for a prisoner swap with Hamas and the two are nearing a deal to exchange hundreds of jailed Palestinians for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip, officials said.

Truck driver was drunk – police One more person has succumbed as a result of Saturday’s grisly Mahaica crash, taking the death toll to six and the police last night railed against recklessness on the roads revealing that the truck driver had 242 microgrammes of alcohol above the legal limit.

By Sara Bharrat A 65-year-old security guard was discovered lying in a pool of blood with a piece of wood abandoned by his side and marks of violence to his head early yesterday morning at his Alexander Street and North Road workplace.

A Corentyne businesswoman is the latest victim of a spate of recent bandit attacks in Berbice.

By Cathy Richards Workers at the Bauxite Com-pany of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) yesterday downed tools after their union and the company failed to come to a satisfactory agreement during recent negotiations.