Guyana News

Almost three months after the nude body of octogenarian Kharpattie Shivnauth was found bound and gagged in her La Grange home, relatives are upset that no one has been charged.

Ahead of next month’s crucial UN-led talks in Copenhagen, China yesterday announced plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 40-45% by 2020 and intends to take major steps to develop renewable and nuclear energy to meet consumption demands.

DUBAI (Reuters) – The “Dubai vision”, which has suffered a crushing blow from the freewheeling Gulf emirate’s sudden debt crisis, is the creation of one man who failed to apply the rules of open governance.

The PNCR is not surprised by government’s response to the recently released dossier, but said if it were certain that the information was inaccurate then it should have no hesitation in heeding the call for an international inquiry.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Twenty-two people were killed and 55 more injured when a Russian train crashed yesterday, in what officials said could have been an act of terrorism.

The Agricola Practical Instruction Centre (PIC) has been helping students of East Bank Demerara primary-tops schools to learn lifetime skills but a staff shortage is hampering its work.

Two men are nursing chop wounds about the body in the Georgetown Public Hospital after separate incidents.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran summoned Norway’s ambassador yesterday over accusations made by Oslo that Iranian authorities had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003.

GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 1,000 deaths from the H1N1 swine flu virus were officially reported in the past week, a sharp rise which brings the global total to at least 7,826, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in collaboration with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) and the United Nations Volunteer programme (UNV) hosted a roundtable discussion on “Volunteering and it’s contribution to the development of Guyana” yesterday at the National Library.

DHAKA (Reuters) – At least five people died and 50 were reported missing after a ferry with several hundred passengers going home for the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival sank in a coastal area river last night, police said.

A University of Guyana (UG) student was last evening shot and injured during a robbery at his Cummings Lodge home.

– as company fires some workers By Cathy Richards Negotiations between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and management of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) came to an abrupt standstill yesterday when the union received word that the company was issuing letters of dismissal to employees.

-crime conference agrees Incarceration should be a last resort for first time offenders, according to participants at the just-concluded national crime prevention conference, which also supported initiatives to promote the social development of young people to prevent involvement in crime.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has directed the Police Commissioner Henry Greene to take strong action against all police ranks involved in the two recent cases of misconduct, including the attempted rape of female juvenile while in custody.

-boy was chained, locked away A woman of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice was arrested on Wednesday following reports that she was abusing her eight-year-old nephew while he was in her care.

The Persons with Disabilities Bill 2009, touted as being transformational to the lives of the differently abled in the country, was last evening sent to a special parliamentary Select Committee after debate.

Prompted by the complaints of parents, the Home Ministry has launched a campaign against the sale of pornography in public places.

Republic Bank (Guyana) has recorded an after-tax profit of $1.8B for the financial year, $262 million over last year’s figure.

-police Police yesterday continued investigations into the brutal murder of local actor Joel Fraser, who was found with his throat slit on Wednesday.