Guyana News

– UWI VC tells law symposium Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, told a high-level law symposium in Trinidad and Tobago recently that steps to promote a sense of regionalism and a wish for integration will not succeed without participants seeing the profound value in becoming one entity.

After completing successful kidney transplant operations, patients and their donors are making significant progress on the road to recovery while transmitting messages of hope to others who have been diagnosed with kidney ailments and are awaiting surgeries.

Just about a month after his business was destroyed in the second of the two recent Regent Street fires, proprietor of Wireless Connections Maxwell Thom has started rebuilding and is hoping to have his store up and running by the end of this month.

A 24-year-old labourer is nursing a gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by his foreman yesterday.

New amendments have been proposed to reform prison laws and increase penalties for prison offences.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has inked a $24.5M contract for the construction of the Diamond market tarmac.

The Coastguard said its ability to help protect fishermen from pirate attacks is severely hampered by lack of communication and the acquisition of a vessel tracking system would boost its response to piracy calls.

An intruder in a Republic Park home was shot in the leg by the police yesterday as he was being chased.

An elderly security guard was found murdered in the Soesdyke NDC compound early yesterday morning.

Fire fighters yesterday battled a fire at the Mandela Avenue dumpsite, which broke out two days ago even as a heavy cloud of smoke shrouded the area choking residents.

The General Register Office (GRO) is working to improve the registration of births in indigenous communities.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A broad healthcare overhaul  was poised to clear its first US Senate hurdle yesterday as  the last wavering senators said they would vote to begin debate  on the legislation, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need.

CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombian President  Alvaro Uribe yesterday ruled out any military retaliation  against Venezuela after Venezuelan troops dynamited two  cross-border footbridges.

HARBIN (Reuters) – A gas explosion killed 42 miners  in a Chinese mine yesterday and 66 remain trapped hundreds of  metres (yards) underground after the latest accident to hit the  world’s deadliest mining industry, state media said.

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian anti-terrorist police have  arrested two Pakistanis suspected of helping to finance the  Islamic militant group responsible for the attacks on Mumbai in  November 2008, that killed 166 people.

GENEVA (Reuters) – After a year’s delay, scientists  at the world’s biggest accelerator have restarted an experiment  to recreate ‘Big Bang’ conditions that had sparked suggestions  the earth would be sucked in by millions of black holes.

COLOMBO (Reuters) – A pro-rebel website accused Sri Lanka’s military of killing 64 people yesterday by shelling a makeshift hospital inside the last scrap of land held by the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.

-on the run for drug trafficking By Oluatoyin Alleyne A bogus doctor, who was allowed to set up shop in Lethem for nearly two months and hire staff from the Lethem Hospital, has been outed as an alleged Venezuelan drug dealer on the run.

Researchers say they have discovered a new amphibian species here that can survive on land with no nostrils, lungs or legs.

The bandit who died in a shoot-out with private security guards at the East Ruimveldt Market on Thursday evening has been identified as Trevor McLean of Den Amstel who had also gained notoriety by fleeing from the Mazaruni prison in 2007.