Guyana News

TECATE, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s violent drug gangs are increasingly kidnapping illegal migrants for ransom and forcing them to carry narcotics into the United States as they muscle into the lucrative trade of smuggling people across the border.

-IDB study warns Under-resourced management of the Lethem to Georgetown road will not only lead to forest loss but weak natural resources management regimes could leave the area along the highway vulnerable to various interests, according to an Inter-American Deve-lopment Bank funded study.

As migration receives greater scrutiny worldwide, Guyana intends to review the laws governing the application for citizenship.

– suspected victim of hit and run A 37-year-old motorcyclist, suspected to have been the victim of a hit and run accident, was discovered dead along the Farm Public Road, East Bank Demerara early yesterday morning.

– in alleged child soliciting Telephone records log a call from the number allegedly used by an underage boy to contact the Office of the President’s Press and Publicity Office, whose head Kwame McCoy has denied allegations that he is the speaker on a recorded call engaging in an illicit conversation with the male minor.

Even as efforts are being made to supply round-the-clock electricity to Lethem residents from next month, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds is expected to meet residents next week Wednesday to discuss issues relating to energy supply in the region.

– over malicious wounding and firearm charges Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered a 17-year-old boy to be kept in police custody while his father and brother were remanded to prison when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of maliciously wounding another man and being found with an unlicensed pistol and a quantity of ammunition.

This is the second in a series of interviews with children who have been rescued by the Ministry of Human Services being published in recognition of Child Protection Week.

Magistrate Nigel Hawke yesterday ordered that three men be remanded to prison when they appeared before him at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of attempting to export a quantity of cocaine in bottles at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

The management of GT&T and residents of Mabura see the installation of the Mabura GSM service as a significant economic boost to the community with the opening of the new Lethem- Brazil bridge.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a carpenter be remanded to prison after he allegedly attempted to murder his stepdaughter by chopping her in her face with a cutlass.

– link Regions Eight and Nine Two bridges valued at $20.5 million, which link Regions Eight and Nine, were recently commissioned by Pauline Sukhai during a visit last week to several Amerindian communities located in the South and North Rupununi.

– but weapon not retrieved The 44-year-old suspect who is in custody at the Fort Wellington Police Station over slashing the throat of a teenager on Sunday at Bush Lot, West Berbice, reportedly confessed to the crime yesterday and took investigators to where the weapon was dumped, but it could not be found.

To mark its 16th anniversary, furniture giant Courts yesterday held a cake-sticking event at its Main Street head office.

Regional Executive Officer of Region Four (Demerara/Mahaica) Shafdar Alli is refuting recent statements made by Region Four Chairman Clement Corlette that only 46% of the region’s work programme has so far been completed for the year.

Timothy Joel Satrohan, who leased his car to a man purported to be an Anguillan named only “Walter” for what was supposed to be three days, is now asking whether you have seen his car.

An unemployed man who was accused of setting fire to his mother’s house was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Blairmont Court yesterday before Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop.

Police are investigating an incident which occurred on Sunday afternoon at the Plaisance Village Market, where a female vendor and two police officers were robbed.

A man who broke into a hotel room and stole a quantity of cash among other items belonging to the occupants was yesterday sentenced to two years imprisonment by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Four-year-old Satish Victor, the young Agricola East Bank Demerara resident who was struck down following a hit and run accident at Second Street, Agricola on Sunday night, passed away yesterday morning at the George-town Public Hospital (GPH) without regaining consciousness.