Guyana News

Civil society has a moral duty to speak out against the torture of a teenager by police ranks, according to leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Raphael Trotman, who has observed that all but a few non-political leaders have been silent.

Thirty-eight students recently graduated from a University of Guyana/Institute of Distance and Continuing Education course with Certificates in Public Management.

KABUL (Reuters) – Hamid Karzai has been re-elected as Afghanistan’s president after a run-off vote was cancelled, but he faced stern warnings he will have to work harder to retain the West’s support after a flawed electoral process.

Dhaneshwar Tumeshwar also known as Scott who sustained a bullet wound when his family was robbed on Saturday evening is said to be in a stable condition in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards, who helped quell protests after the June election, warned the opposition yesterday not to use anti-US rallies this week to stage new demonstrations.

The National Blood Trans-fusion Service has issued an urgent call for blood saying that it is currently experiencing a severe shortage of all blood types.

GENEVA (Reuters) – An end is in sight to the world’s longest-running trade dispute, involving bananas, and a deal could be in place by the end of the year, senior European and Latin American trade negotiators said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Arab UN delegates circulated a draft resolution yesterday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a UN report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council.

The decomposed body of a man with a .45 spent shell next to it was found yesterday by the police among some bushes off the Linden/Soesdyke Highway at Hararuni.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday reiterated its “position that it is against torture”.

The police are investigating a robbery committed on a Brazilian woman at the Tamakay Backdam, Middle Mazaruni on Sunday night.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected Taliban suicide bomb killed at least 35 people in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi yesterday, officials said, as the government announced a reward for the capture, dead or alive, of the group’s leaders.

-held since Tuesday, says was cuffed in mouth The 15-year-old who was tortured by West Demerara police is likely to spend the next six months in the hospital even as the relatives of another detained man have expressed concern for his well-being.

Six employees of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL)  company are now in police custody following the theft of 118 rolls of copper wire from the company’s store in Sophia.

Minister of Human Services & Social Security Priya Manickchand yesterday condemned the “horrific” torture of a 15-year-old murder suspect by policemen at the Leonora Police Station and said she expects the perpetrators will face the full force of the law.

A Corentyne man was shot in the neck on Saturday night by bandits who robbed his home of an undisclosed sum of cash and a quantity of jewellery.

The PNCR has condemned the torture of a 15-year-old boy and demanded an immediate response from Commissioner of Police Henry Greene on the case.

Rehabilitation work is scheduled to commence on the airstrip at Mahdia in Region Eight during this week at a cost of $23.6 million and is slated to last for three to four weeks.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has published guidelines for members of the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department on several areas that have caused much inconvenience to motorists.

Farmers in West Berbice have called on the research centre at Burma to provide a better quality of seed paddy saying that they are paying a high price for the product but are not getting their money’s worth.