Guyana News

A burnt pump caused the water shortage at the West Demerara Secondary School and the ensuing insanitary conditions but the problem is being rectified, a senior official at the educational institution says.

Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Develop-ment, Kellawan Lall said on Friday that he has accepted the recommendations of the Commissioner of Inquiry, Keith Burrowes that the city Town Clerk, Beulah Williams and Treasurer Roderick Edinboro be removed from their current positions.

In a community where the unemployment rate is over 50% the proprietors of the $15M Seven Sisters/Torrington Sawmill agree that establishing their business at Linden would allow them to cut costs and create jobs.

Residents of a six-apartment building at Lot 101 Hunter Street, West La Penitence which was destroyed by fire late Saturday afternoon have begun to pick up the pieces, with some families temporarily seeking shelter with their relatives while some have started rebuilding  structures on the burnt out site.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says that he knows of no plans by the community or its secretariat to license journalists.

A 16-year-old boy, who told the court that he did not know that it was cannabis that a former schoolmate had given him as a birthday gift, was on Friday ordered to pay a fine of $4,000 and also do  three weeks of  community service when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

…after discovery that they are kin The relatives of a nine-year-old boy who was allegedly assaulted by a female police officer in Linden have decided to put the matter to rest after discovering that they are kin.

The Mayor and City Council has intensified its drainage programme in some sections of the city and plans to start a major desilting exercise in the Bourda ward soon.

A 40-year-old farmer who told Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson that it was his God-given right to plant cannabis was ordered to pay a fine of $20,000 and serve four years imprisonment when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Afghan presidential challenger  Abdullah Abdullah quit an election run-off yesterday after  accusing the government of not meeting his demand for a fair  vote, leaving doubts over the legitimacy of the next government.

Rehabilitation of the facilities at No. 63 Beach is expected to commence this week and refurbishing is to be done to five benabs, three pavilions and the washroom facilities while two changing rooms will also be built.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s attorney general Amos  Wako was the senior government official handed a travel ban by  Washington last month, the US envoy to Kenya said yesterday.

“I don’t write poems,” said Stanley Greaves last Thursday, “Poems write me.”

PARIS, (Reuters) – France is proposing a plan to help  the world’s poorest countries finance renewable energy projects  that it hopes will form part of upcoming climate talks, Ecology  Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said in an interview yesterday.

The Regional Democratic Council of Region 10 last Thursday displayed a warm spirit in hosting a farewell and inauguration ceremony for its outgoing and incoming Regional Education Officers (REdO).

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) is hosting a series of pujas today to commemorate Kartik Snaan.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The front-runner in  Honduras’ presidential race has become a key to resolving a  four-month conflict between a president ousted in a coup and  the de facto leader who replaced him.

MARRAKESH, Morocco, (Reuters) – Delegates to climate  talks in Copenhagen may not be able to agree even a partial  solution to the problem of how to tackle global warming by  December, a top international climate change official said.

The body of a miner, said to be in his thirties, is currently awaiting identification at the Lyken’s Funeral home in the city after he was brought out of the interior on Saturday afternoon following an accident at a mining operation.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – People on the brink of  developing diabetes who get a lot of support and encouragement  to diet and exercise can turn things around and avoid the  disease, US researchers said on Wednesday.