Guyana News

Two vanloads of policemen last night swooped on a house in Queenstown and launched a search for guns and ammunition.

The memory of those who perished in the Jonestown tragedy thirty-one years ago is being honoured with the erection of a plaque at the site displaying the simple inscription: ‘In memory of the victims of the Jonestown Tragedy, November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana’.

-power restored to abattoir, key pump By Femi Harris After a ninety-minute meeting yesterday, City Hall and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) were unable to reach any agreement to settle the municipality’s outstanding debt of some $600M.

In an effort to enforce greater adherence to building codes in Guyana, a National Tech-nical Sub-Committee on Regional Building Standards was yesterday launched at the Cara Lodge Hotel.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is to meet with representatives of Canadian oil exploration company, CGX Energy later this month and has warned that they need to move to drilling.

Brooks upbeat about Guyana market Regional conglomerate, ANSA McAl aims to up its services and on Friday launched its Core Values programme and Group Awards Initiative here.

A Bagotstown woman, who allegedly stole a quantity of spare parts valued over $9M from Car Care Auto Sales, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $200,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police on Tuesday took a suspect into custody over the murder of Rajdai Persaud whose body was discovered in a Zeelugt trench a short distance from her home.

“I can’t forgive him,” the mother of three-year-old Rani Lall, who died one week after being hit by a Guyana Prison Service (GPS) vehicle, lamented on Tuesday.

The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday installed the new executive body of its student society at a simple ceremony in the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT) on the Turkeyen campus.

Julian Browne was ordered to pay a fine of $25,000 or spend three months in prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with wounding a woman.

A 22-year-old man accused of robbing teachers who were distributing National Identification Cards at the Enterprise Primary School was remanded to prison after a court appearance in the Cove & John Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

– attackers kicked in door A 43-year-old man was attacked and chopped by cutlass-wielding men over a land dispute in the early hours of Tuesday.

Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday ordered that a 26-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court  for allegedly dealing a man several lashes with a piece of wood while he was asleep in a hammock.

Guyanese authorities yesterday morning returned a deportee to the US on the same airline he arrived on Tuesday morning after no records could be found proving he had resided here.

Harves Olivia Alfred, the miner who was injured when a tree fell into the pit he was working in on Monday, remains hospitalized at a hospital in Boa Vista, Brazil.

Courts Guyana made another of its customers a millionaire yesterday in its third draw of the Stash of Cash 3 promotion.

BEIJING, Reuters) – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told  President Barack Obama his nation does not seek a trade surplus  with the United States and wants to balance flows, striking a  conciliatory note but avoiding public comment on currency  rifts.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two teenage girls were found  guilty yesterday of causing the death of a vicar’s daughter  who leapt from an upstairs window to escape their abuse.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs will be providing rice hulling machines to several hinterland communities as efforts move apace to boost agricultural production in those areas.