Guyana News

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has set next year’s  parliamentary elections for Sept.

-call for independent inquiry into all allegations of inhuman treatment The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers has condemned the atrocity meted out to a teenager held in custody at the Leonora Police Station; saying justice would only be served when the perpetrators are made to face the law.

Relatives of  a man found strangled on the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway were yesterday attempting to unravel the bizarre events that led to his abduction and murder, which triggered a wave of violent attacks in the capital.

The Supreme Court Registry was channa-bombed early yesterday morning as part of a coordinated campaign in the city, dealing a heavy blow to the judiciary which is currently pushing a sector-wide reform programme including the computerization of its records.

The security forces were on heightened alert last night after a heavily-armed gang parading as policemen carried out a series of shock attacks that left one person dead and two policemen nursing gunshot wounds.

-fire set at eight different points The Richard Ishmael Secondary School was saved from destruction early yesterday morning after an invasion by arsonists.

Following the attacks on two police stations, the High Court and the Richard Ishmael Secondary School, the Joint Services yesterday rolled out a series of operations along the East Bank and East Coast Demerara and the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.

–police say awaiting positive ID By Ayanna Blair In an unexpected twist, the two police officers who were arrested after a 15-year-old boy was burned in the genital area while in custody at the Leonora Police Station were yesterday charged with the unlawful wounding of two other prisoners.

Arbitration in the dispute between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is set to begin on Monday.

Four employees of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were last evening being grilled by police in connection with a multi-million dollar fraud which was uncovered in the entity’s computer security system.

Gavin Washington, the taxi driver whose decomposed body was found among some bushes off the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway at Haura-runi on Monday, had been missing since October 24 and the man’s girlfriend is being questioned by the police as investigations continue.

Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan has dispelled allegations that she had instructed police officers to bar reporters from entering the Wales Magistrate’s courtroom last Friday.

BARCELONA, Spain, (Reuters) – Developing countries  said yesterday they risked “total destruction” unless the  rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that  even the United Nations says is out of reach.

(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday have decided ‘to work towards agreeing to a new’ constitution during the existing parliamentary term which ends in December 2012.

The three-year-old girl who was struck down by a vehicle belonging to the Guyana Prison Service on Tuesday night remained in critical condition up to last evening at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

One week after being struck down by a car while attempting to cross the East Coast Demerara (ECD) Railway Embankment road, six-year-old Raulvin Maynard remains in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Swine flu has hit an isolated  tribe of Indians in the Amazon jungle, with seven dying in the  last two weeks, Survival International said yesterday.

MILAN/ROME, (Reuters) – An Italian judge sentenced 23  Americans to up to eight years in prison yesterday for the  abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the  CIA “rendition” flights used by the former U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in collaboration with Guybernet and regional community development groups in Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo successfully carried out a data collection and clean-up activity along Guyana’s shorelines and coastal waterways.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An Afghan policeman, who the  Taliban said was one of its fighters, has killed five British  soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan, raising the possibility  that the militants might have infiltrated the police force.