Guyana News

A grisly murder yesterday rocked No.72 Village Squatting Area, on the Corentyne and set police on the trail of a killer.

-health ministry targets rise in infections, disregard for treatment ‘I was almost dead 24 times’ -Regional Chairman Faced with escalating malaria infections and a growing community of miners who are disregarding certain health rules, Mahdia has become one of the malaria ‘hot beds’ in the country.

Fair View Village is getting into the butterfly business. Last Thursday the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently inked a grant agreement with the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB) to support Butterfly Farming in the Region Nine community.

An Edinburg Berbice man has spent four days in hospital after he was allegedly beaten by police ranks.

-private sector to lobby US for help The suspects fingered in Wednesday’s attacks continued to elude police up to yesterday while there were calls for support from the US and more answers from the police.

-Guyana-Brazil confab hears Guyana must establish an agency to co-ordinate its efforts in order to optimize the benefits of deepened relations with Brazil, a symposium on joint relations agreed on Wednesday.

The new Turkish Ambassad-or to Guyana Nihat Akyol has said he will place focus on tourism and industry, after presenting his Letters of Credence to President Bharrat Jagdeo at a simple ceremony held in the Credentials Room of the Office of the President.

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday deferred a bail hearing in the High Court for the two policemen implicated in the torture of a 15-year-old boy.

The four Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA)  employees implicated in a multi-million dollar fraud are to be charged shortly while police track down a fifth person who may have been the mastermind, Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur confirmed yesterday .

Two persons have been arrested by police for the armed robbery at Gizmos and Gadgets at Regent Street on Tuesday and they were up to last evening assisting with investigations.

A post-mortem examination yesterday conducted on the remains of taxi-driver Gavin Washington whose decomposing remains were found on the Linden/Soesdyke High-way, failed to reveal a cause of death.

Leonard Raymond of Micobie Village, Potaro, Essequibo, was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly stabbing his uncle and slashing his cousin over a missing pair of slippers.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Thursday ordered that a man who allegedly hacked his father to death with a cutlass last year be remanded to prison when a murder charge was reinstated against him at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court The previous murder case against Andrew Gomes, 21, of Waiakabra on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway had been discharged last week at the Providence Magistrates’ Court because of the absence of the case file with the relevant statements.

Police Constable Esan Grimes was remanded to prison on Thursday for allegedly having sex with a schoolgirl.

The Guyana Book Foundation (GBF) will be focusing on bringing children and books together to celebrate reading next week when it hosts its 9th annual National Book Fair.

There was a return to normalcy at sugar estates yesterday after Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) represented sugar workers returned to work after being on strike for one week.

The Japanese government recently announced it would confer its highest honour on Guyana’s former Ambassador to Japan Rudolph Insanally in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – An agreement to end a  four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed yesterday  after two rival leaders failed to form a government of unity to  heal the damage from a June coup.

KILLEEN, Texas, (Reuters) – Investigators searched  for the motive yesterday behind a mass shooting at a sprawling  U.S.

The National AIDS Committee has greeted US President Barack Obama’s decision to remove all restrictions on people infected with HIV from visiting the United States.