Guyana News

Two aluminum speed boats valued $600,000 were recently presented to the Amerindian villages of Baitoon and Katu’ur in Region Nine by the Amerindian Affairs Ministry to improve the transportation needs of the communities, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The foundation is being laid for a $77.7M secondary school at Sand Creek in South Central, Rupununi, Region Nine and the facility is expected to benefit over 700 students when completed.

Two brothers were stabbed during a dispute while they were playing football at Paradise, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

The husband of Heerawattie Tekram, the woman found hacked to death on Friday is to appear in court today, charged with her murder.

A 30-year-old man is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after being involved in an accident on Saturday night.

CANCUN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Ida roared into  the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, where important oil fields are  located, after killing 91 people and leaving at least another  60 missing in floods and mudslides in El Salvador.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of  Represen-tatives approved a sweeping healthcare reform bill on Saturday, backing the biggest health policy changes in four  decades and handing President Barack Obama a crucial victory.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Global trade has staged a  remarkable recovery from the depths of last year’s panic, even  though U.S.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber  killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an  attack near Pakistan’s volatile city of Peshawar yesterday,  officials said.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has regained control  of territory seized by Yemeni rebels in an incursion last week,  a senior official was quoted as saying, as the kingdom becomes  more entangled in conflict to its south.

Tragedy visited a Guyanese family yesterday when one of its young members fell over Kaieteur Falls, traumatizing the tour group she was with.

– on drug trafficking charges More than three years after he was slapped with drug trafficking charges in the US, retired army major David Clarke, who was expected to be one of the main witnesses in the Roger Khan trial, will be sentenced next month, according to court documents.

The parliamentary opposition has withdrawn from the work of the parliamentary select committee on delayed local government legislation, saying that the government has refused to make concessions aimed at reform.

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) says it is unable to confirm or deny that it holds information in relation to the activities of Mabey & Johnson in Guyana – the firm which was recently prosecuted for bribing a string of officials in Jamaica and elsewhere.

Provisional registration has been granted to the Inter American School of Nursing, and its owner Nanda Kissoon has a six-month period to make “certain qualitative improvements,” Chairman of the National Accreditation Council (NAC) Khemraj Rai said.

– measures to halt ‘abuse in custody’ With the alleged torture of a teen boy in police custody fuelling widespread suspicion about the security forces, PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran is recommending a thorough investigation along with wide consultations on measures that could be adopted to ensure the abuse of citizens in custody does not recur.

– says no Troy Tyrell at GINA Office of the President (OP) Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy has denied having any knowledge about the suspected leak of an official police bulletin last week.

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Rich countries and  developing nations fought over climate change yesterday,  failing to make progress on financing ahead of a major  environmental summit in Copenhagen next month.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The lower house of  Haiti’s parliament confirmed Jean-Max Bellerive as prime  minister yesterday, clearing the way for the economist and  veteran politician to form a new government.

-owner refusing to help police Gunmen invaded C&V Caribbean Shipping Limited late Friday afternoon, terrorising staff before escaping with an undisclosed amount of money.