Guyana News

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexico’s violent  drug gangs are fighting over home-grown addicts in the dingy  back streets of northern border cities, creating new turf wars  that will further stretch the country’s security forces.

Greene points to ‘social alienation of men A Caricom Secretariat official is advocating for education on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to be included in the school curriculum and for gender issues to become a priority on the regional agenda.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – One of South Africa’s most  notorious drug kingpins said yesterday that he had given former  police chief Jackie Selebi cash and gifts out of generosity, not  for protection against the law.  

The Government Pensioners Association of Guyana is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a church service and brunch on Sunday, October 18th.

The PNCR yesterday reiterated that it will never support an amendment to the constitution to allow President Bharrat Jagdeo to contest the Presidency for a third term.

Five fire-fighting units were yesterday handed over to the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) by the Ministry of Home Affairs in a ceremony at the National Park.

-porter injured Twenty-eight-year old Clive Barrett met a tragic end when the laden lumber truck he was driving turned turtle and pinned him as he headed to a timber concession in Essequibo yesterday.

-complainant The group which lost millions to a ‘tour operator’ after they signed up for a bogus Canada tour last November said they had informed police the man was a flight risk but his passport was never taken as a precaution.

Eighteen-year-old Rajesh Bashir called Tandan who was hospitalized after being shot in the leg on August 23 was charged with eight counts of robbery under arms at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court recently.

Linden’s own therapeutic spa and health centre will soon open its doors to the public boasting three doctors’ offices, a lab, a health food store, pharmacy and recreational facilities.

The theme for the 2010 Mashramani celebrations has been chosen and will be unveiled along with the logo during a launching ceremony on October 16, the Government Information Agency reported.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted a man accused of malicious wounding $85,000 bail when he on Tuesday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The quartet of social activist Mark Benschop, trade unionists Lincoln Lewis and Norris Witter and university lecturer Frederick Kissoon yesterday picketed the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security over the controversial audio recording of alleged child solicitation that is said to involve Office of the President Press Officer, Kwame McCoy.

She once sat on the journalists’ bench in court dreaming of being a lawyer.

Mahaicony Primary School student, 8–year-old Sunil Singh, who was struck down by a canter truck on the Mahaicony Public Road on Wednesday, remains in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

–anaemia reducing Though faced with some challenges the Ministry of Health’s basic nutrition programme (BNP) popularly referred to as the ‘sprinkles programme’ will be extended for another year since its benefit to pregnant women and their children has been great.

The trio accused of kidnapping the daughter of Pike Street businessman Beharry ‘Natoo’ Dookie, was yesterday remanded to prison when they made another appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says the broken water main at the unoccupied lot on Blue Berry Hill has been fixed and is now fully operational. 

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Wednesday commissioned a laser land leveller and tractor valued about $20M that had been procured for rice farmers and the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to boost production and efficiency.

A fisherman who reportedly fought with and robbed a woman of items totalling $12,500 was on Tuesday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.