Guyana News

Bandits dealt a 33-year-old woman five slashes on her neck and chops about her body when they barged into her Yakusari, Black Bush Polder house around 7.45 pm on Friday, carting away over $300,000 in money and jewellery.

The water level in Capoey Lake, located on the Essequibo Coast in Region Two, is gradually receding owing to the El Nino dry weather phenomenon as well as water being drained from the lake to nearby rice fields.

Guyana has received the promised $3billion (US$15 million) from the regional Petroleum Fund, which is to be used to assist Clico (Guyana) to meet its liabilities, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced on Friday.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says that interventions have been made to bring relief to residents being affected by water disruptions in Plaisance, Vryheid’s Lust and other neighbouring East Coast communities.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said the claim that members of the army moved the bodies of missing sugar workers from the front of Buxton to the backlands in 2005 would have to be probed by police as the sole constitutional authority for investigating criminality.

With bids already in on the majority of the immovable properties of Clico (Guyana), the High Court will soon consider whether to wind up the company as repeatedly argued by the Judicial Manager, and or allow some lines of business to continue in keeping with submissions made on behalf of the troubled insurance company.

Justice Winston Patterson has aborted the trial of three men jointly indicted for wounding after reports that persons were seen speaking with members of the jury.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro  Uribe agreed yesterday to rebel demands that they be allowed  to free hostages one at a time rather than all at once, a  reversal in government policy that could speed up releases.

Driver’s story doesn’t sound right -police As police investigate last Wednesday’s Unity, Mahaica crash that claimed two lives, questions have been raised about the account given by the driver of the car which slammed into an electricity post and flipped into a nearby ditch.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will not deploy new  missiles in the Kaliningrad enclave after the United States  dropped plans for an anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe,  Russia’s deputy defence minister said yesterday.

-was due to migrate Police have detained a motorcyclist who struck and killed an East Coast Demerara resident yesterday as he was crossing the road.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama  will hold a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on  Tuesday to help restart peace talks between the two sides, the  White House said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors found no  suspicious materials on the ship Arctic Sea despite media  reports it was carrying an air-defence system for Iran, Russian  newswires reported on Saturday.

The lessons of Ramadan has reinforced obligation to end the scourge of poverty in the country, according to the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG).

KABUL (Reuters) – A run-off presidential election,  if needed in Afghanistan, must take place before the third week  of October or it will have to be delayed until winter weather  lifts next year, a senior election official said on Saturday.

Progress is only possible through individual and collective sacrifices, the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says.

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Forensic tests on the DNA from  the body of a man killed during a raid by Indonesian police  this week confirm he was Noordin Mohammad Top, one of Asia’s  most wanted militants, police said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative Christians, a  key base for the Republican Party, said yesterday they were  targeting 16 Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry  Reid, in the 2010 congressional elections.

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green is urging that EID-UL-FITR be used as an occasion for healing, while living according to beliefs.

– Jagdeo wants Corbin agreement for IMC As the stink of rotting garbage continues to choke Georgetown’s residents, the government will hold talks with City Hall today, to see what assistance can be rendered and if PNCR leader Robert Corbin agrees to an Interim Management Committee (IMC) for Georgetown, this can be put in place “tomorrow”, President Bharrat Jagdeo said.