Guyana News

A World Bank team – here to discuss a forest conservation strategy with Amerindian forest communities – has cleared the way for a S$200,000 seed grant to support information sharing activities but has expressed concern about mining activities in the Kamarang area.

Grenada crime scene team in sweep Grenadian police yesterday boarded the deserted Island Princess which is moored at the cruise ship terminal in St.

Two bikes went missing from home The decomposing body discovered in the old pump station reservoir at Henry Street on Monday has been identified as that of 23-year-old Hassan Muhammad Ali Hussein.

A suspect wanted in connection with a recent robbery in Berbice was shot and killed during a confrontation with police on Monday afternoon at Rampur Village, Corriverton. 

Government will begin refunding investors and policyholders in the local CLICO company as soon as the court approves the order to liquidate the company’s assets, President Bharrat Jagdeo disclosed on Monday during a press conference.

-denies KN death story By Tiffny Rhodius The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) yesterday said a prolonged power outage on Monday night was due to a damaged switch and denied that the death of a three-year-old girl there was as a result of this.

A 59-year-old machine operator at a mine in Mahdia died on Monday after an accident on the worksite.

Residents of Richmond Hill, Mackenzie, Linden have been without a potable water supply for more than a week now.

The necessary orders pertaining to the seats in the various local government organs,  the areas where the elections are to take place and the constituencies to be demarcated were served yesterday on the Guyana Elections Commission.

While Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee promised residents of Alexander Village protection during their Deepavali celebrations he also warned that “you can’t eat your cake and have it” and they would need to make some sacrifices including turning over fellow villagers who disrupt the peace.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc yesterday withdrew from a planned wages and salaries negotiation with the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) saying that it will not negotiate under duress.

…but mother willing to speak to police Social activist Mark Benschop said yesterday that the boy, caught up in an alleged child solicitation case involving Office of the President Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy, is fearful of going public but his mother is willing to cooperate with police on behalf of her son.

Report says legal framework in place The crippling impact of irresponsible alcohol consumption is a problem Guyana has tackled for years Health Minister Dr.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) is appealing for greater sensitivity and responsible behaviour by persons to avoid disrupting the peace and sanctity of the Deepavali activity at the Alexander Village Vishnu Mandir on Saturday.

A drink vendor accused of robbing a housekeeper and her employer at gunpoint of over $1M in items was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Court charged with two counts of robbery.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Suspicious deaths.  Beatings. Random police shootings. Life under the de facto  government of Honduras at times feels uncannily like Latin  America’s dark past of military rule.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton failed to win specific pledges from Moscow on tougher  sanctions against Iran during a visit to Russia yesterday but  hailed progress in other areas such as arms control.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A key U.S. Senate committee  endorsed a sweeping healthcare overhaul yesterday, gaining the  support of an influential Republican and delivering President  Barack Obama a victory on his top domestic priority.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A Russian court yesterday threw  out a libel case brought by Josef Stalin’s grandson against a  newspaper which said the leader had personally ordered the  killings of thousands of Soviet citizens.

-to be boarded The Island Princess which vanished before the disembowelled bodies of three of its crew members washed up here two weeks ago was spotted drifting off of Grenada yesterday and is to be boarded shortly.