Guyana News

A water main in an unoccupied plot of land at Blue Berry Hill, Wismar, which was broken some two years ago, threatens the health of and has become a nuisance to residents given the swampy conditions that exist.

Motorists and road users are being asked to take heed of oncoming traffic, particularly police and ambulance vehicles which are using sirens.

The Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency (CRMA) and Board of Industrial Training (BIT) have begun holding job fairs to advertise the training available at the BIT and encourage young people to register with the CRMA.

Two bandits will today make a court appearance after they were caught by vigilant City Constabulary ranks inside the Bourda Market with some $390,000 worth of items they had stolen from two stalls.

Guyana has maintained its overall 114 ranking in the latest United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) remaining at the same position as it did in 2006.

Hog Island tragedy The family of the 10-year-old boy who remains missing following the Hog Island boat mishap on August 11, has set up an account for donations and hope to be able to offer a reward for information.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber dressed as a paramilitary soldier attacked an office of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in the Pakistani capital yesterday, killing five staff, government and U.N.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is in the final stages of restoring facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying today.

 BEIJING – China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea, nudging it to improve its economy, while reports of Indian and South Korean swoops on North Korean shipping underscored strains behind a recent easing of tension.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – De facto Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti lifted an emergency decree yesterday that had suspended some civil liberties and shut two media outlets loyal to ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The G30, a group of prominent bankers, policymakers and economists, called yesterday for sweeping reforms to the International Monetary Fund, warning that the impetus for change would wane as pain from the financial crisis fades.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine yesterday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme which helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies ageing and cancer.

Retired High Court judge Jainarayan Singh, who said last week that he had not been paid his benefits because he made decisions that were not favourable to the government, is not entitled to any benefits, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh has said.

-Chartered accountant says de-policitise the scheme Total contributions to the NIS rose 117% between 1999 and 2009 while the increase in the payment of benefits for the same period was 224% and annual contributions are not sufficient to cover current expenditure, according to NIS General Manager (ag) Doreen Nelson.

A 53-year-old seaman who allegedly stabbed his former lover to death may have fled the country to neighbouring French Guiana but almost seven months later his victim’s relatives have accepted that they would probably never get justice and if they did it would not bring the woman back.

-Luncheon While saying there would be a thorough investigation of University of Guyana (UG) lecturer Evan Persaud and the claims that he engaged in victimisation and inappropriate behaviour, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon is assuring that no corners would be cut on due process.

After 30 years delivering the babies of St Cuthbert’s Mission, Amanda Mahadeo still has that drive to succeed.

Gordon Mosley, the television journalist who was barred from entering Office of the President last year, was elected President of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) last evening at the group’s annual general meeting.

Police up to late last evening were yet to locate the Island Princess, a boat they described as a “cargo vessel” reported missing last Tuesday, or its fourth crew member suspected to have been murdered in the same fashion as his three companions.