Guyana News

Explosive devices were hurled at a Sophia home yesterday but quick action by residents averted a major disaster.

The Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited yesterday launched its Customer Care Initiative at its Promenade Court head office, New Market Street.

Faced with increasing incidents of violence in schools, the government is examining heightened security as well as the introduction of counselling as part of schools’ curriculum, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

The PNCR in extending greetings on the special occasion of Eid-ul-Adha has expressed the party’s hope that Guyanese will use the occasion to reflect on its significance to the benefit of the nation.

Cabinet has offered no objection to several road rehabilitation contracts, including to seven awards valued $278M to the interior road programme.

The threat climate change poses to small island states is the focus of a new song commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Caricom Secretariat.

University of Guyana staff resumed duties yesterday after the worker’s union and the university administration reached a deal.

-Luncheon The police force’s investigation of allegations of the torture of a teen boy and two other prisoners would be made public by next Tuesday, according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon.

A porter was yesterday charged with lifting a quantity of jewellery off a six-year-old boy.

A woman accused of a stealing $2.3M in cash and jewellery from her employer was yesterday remanded to prison.

A labourer accused of carnally knowing a ten-year-old girl was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

LIVINGSTON, Guatemala (Reuters) – Descendants of African slaves who fled to Guatemala two centuries ago honored their ancestors yesterday in a wild celebration of a culture threatened by mass migration to the United States.

MILAN (Reuters Life!) – Giorgio Carbone, elected prince of the village of Seborga whose colourful language earned him the title “Your Tremendousness,” has died at the age of 73, ANSA news agency reported on Wednesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its feet on global warming, will attend UN talks next month in Copenhagen designed to find a successor to the Kyoto climate change protocol.

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is being treated in Saudi Arabia for acute pericarditis and the vice president has assumed presidential powers in his absence, Yar’Adua’s spokesman said yesterday.

At the end of the Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca), Muslims throughout the world celebrate the holiday of Eid ul-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice).

ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguay’s leftist president accused political rivals yestersday of trying to destabilize his government by spreading rumours that he fathered yet another child when he was a Roman Catholic cleric.

The Muslim Youth League (MYL) said Eid-ul-Adha is a time for Muslims to learn the value of self-denial by sacrificing much loved things to God Almighty.

The PPP said it welcomes the AFC’s support of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) as the Guyana delegation prepares to head to the UNFCCC summit in Copenhagen.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway accused Tehran yesterday of confiscating the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003 and said freedom of expression was under “great pressure” in Iran.