Guyana News

A 39-year-old man died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Monday after being struck down by a vehicle while crossing the Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara public road on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican Bob McDonnell  rolled to victory over a Democrat in the governor’s race in  Virginia yesterday in the first of three key votes that  provided an early test of U.S.

SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan  soldiers blocked the main border crossing with Colombia yesterday after President Hugo Chavez’s government said  paramilitaries were behind the killing of two soldiers.

A Richmond, Essequibo Coast woman was on Monday evening robbed by armed bandits who took away $400,000 and escaped.

Tonight on CNS Channel 6, Facilitator Patrick Zephyr looks at the Matching Grants Initiative (MGI) which affords opportunities for small and medium sized business to access grant aid funds for export oriented projects.

ROME, (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights  ruled yesterday that crucifixes should be removed from Italian  classrooms, prompting Vatican anger and sparking uproar in  Italy, where such icons are embedded in the national psyche.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday said policemen implicated in the torture of a teenaged murder suspect crossed the line, while urging that due process be allowed to take its course.

– fishers in Berbice raided Pirates, masked and armed with guns terrorized and robbed the captains and crew members of two fishing boats on Sunday evening, carting off almost $4 million in engines, fish, gasoline and other items.

Six days after he was held, Nouravie ‘Navin’ Wilfred remained in custody yesterday even as police probed allegations that he is among a trio that was tortured at the Leonora Police Station.

Officials of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) along with police yesterday swooped down on Gizmos & Gadgets and its subsidiaries, seizing company records on the suspicion that it has been evading taxes.

Social activist Mark Benschop was yesterday placed before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting a police officer.

– CANU, police have traffickers on the defensive, Rohee says The Customs and Anti-Narcotics Unit  (CANU) has reported an increase in the seizure of narcotics over the last nine months and while Home Affairs Minster Clement Rohee believes this has forced those culpable on the defensive he cautioned that there remains an ongoing battle to combat the scourge.

Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan did not pass an order to bar media operatives from entering the Wales Magistrate’s Court last Friday, a legal source reported yesterday.

In these “dark times”, a Roman Catholic Church organization is calling for all to work together to prevent “abominations” like torture from occurring and urging the police and government to act swiftly and take the necessary steps to hold to account those responsible.

The four former Republic Bank tellers and a carpenter, who on October 15 had charges of conspiracy to commit a felony dismissed when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, were yesterday facing charges of obtaining and receiving money by a forged instrument.

Farmers were awarded for having the best sheep and goats in various categories when the West Berbice Sheep and Goat Association held its annual exhibition and fair at the Bath Community Centre Ground on Saturday last.

– call for Greene to resign Outraged at the most recent allegations of police torture involving a 15-year-old boy, representatives of Red Thread, Grassroots Women Across Race and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday staged a picketing exercise while calling for the resignation of Police Com-missioner Henry Greene.

Mark Fernandes and Cheryl Marques, who were shot by the 25-year-old woman’s reportedly enraged drunken lover over a week ago, say they are living in fear as their attacker and his relatives continue to threaten them.

– judge orders probation report Roxanne Daniels, initially charged with the murder of her lover’s estranged wife, was found guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter last evening by a unanimous jury after more than seven hours of deliberation.

-GAWU awaits start of arbitration Strike action by the sugar workers represented by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) continued yesterday even as both the union and the sugar corporation await the start of the arbitration process.