Guyana News

Angad Persaud, a 55-year-old resident of Esau and Jacob, located on the left bank of the Mahaicony Creek has decided to put his land to good use and is venturing into large-scale fish farming.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday said it will oppose every effort to bring the media under control through the touted draft Professional Services Bill which the Caricom Secretariat has announced may come into effect in another three years and will regulate professionals, including journalists.

A 32-year-old Corentyne man accused of stealing a quantity of raw gold valued $1.3 million was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Caribbean Airlines, Captain Ian Burton has announced changes to the airline’s top management at an internal meeting organised for all staff at the company’s Head Office at Piarco.

– over ‘pipe dream’ statement on Guyana’s food production capacity Minister Robert Persaud said yesterday that the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) official who referred to Guyana’s ability to produce food for the Caribbean as pipe dream, should not disregard facts and figures about Guyana’s capability and avoid embarrassment.

A taxi driver, who was hired to take a passenger to Campbellville, but took her to a street close to the seawall against her will, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police yesterday issued a bulletin for a West Ruimveldt man wanted for questioning into the murder of Marvin Smith, who died on October 8 following an incident at Roxanne Burnham Gardens, on October 5.

“My worship, we is very poor people. Meh children-mother die the other day and meh children en have nothing to eat.

A 16-year-old is the fourth person to be charged with the murder of a Canal Number Two grandmother, who asphyxiated when she was gagged during a robbery last year.

The police have arrested a male relative of the 30-year-old Enmore woman who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following a beating.

As part of the Month of the Elderly activities, the Region Five Probation and Welfare Department recently pampered several senior citizens and treated them to health care at the Fort Wellington and Mahaichony hospitals.

The youth, who fatally stabbed Charlestown baker, Damon Weatherspoon is still at large while a post-mortem examination yesterday revealed that Weatherspoon died as a result of a single stab wound to the heart.

The Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) has launched an investigation into reports that fuel sold by two of its service stations over the weekend was contaminated, resulting in some vehicles developing mechanical problems.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said yesterday it could endorse a UN deal for it to send potential nuclear fuel abroad for processing, the first official indication that Tehran could respond positively to the outline agreement.

MIAMI (Reuters) – The younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro, Juanita Castro, collaborated with the US Central Intelligence Agency against her brothers’ rule in Cuba before going into exile in Miami in 1964, she said on Sunday.

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will make a small grant of humanitarian aid to North Korea, ending its suspension of handouts after a series of conciliatory gestures from its destitute rival, an official said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior US officials will travel to Honduras this week to press ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the country’s post-coup de facto leaders to break a stalemate in a four-month-old political crisis.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pilots of a Northwest Airlines jetliner that overshot its destination by 150 miles last week told US investigators they became distracted during an extended discussion of crew scheduling that included their use of personal laptops, officials said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Paris Jackson wears her father’s shirts every day, but her brother Prince does not want to watch the King of Pop’s DVDs.

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Donald Ramotar said on Saturday that recent comments by Central Executive Member, Reepu Daman Persaud endorsing President Bharrat Jagdeo for a third term do not reflect the party’s position on the issue.