Guyana News

Almost two weeks after being struck down by a Canter at Mahaicony, 8–year-old Sunil Singh, remains attached to a life support machine in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Four protocols on sexual and domestic violence, developed by Help & Shelter, were presented to the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security last week and a fifth is still “in the works”.

The issue of some Caribbean Community (Caricom) states being placed on a financial haven “blacklist” was discussed with the Head of the World Bank when President Bharrat Jagdeo met him recently.

Fourteen Guyanese have been caught up in an immigration fraud scheme in the US that could see them ending up being deported.

The issues of water shortage and mosquito infestation at the St Aidan’s Primary School at Linden are being addressed.

Six days after being involved in a motor vehicular accident at Goed Fortuin, 34-year-old Pradeep Ramdin is still unconscious and attached to a life support machine in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani forces launched a ground offensive against Taliban militants in South Waziristan on the Afghan border yesterday, with soldiers advancing from three directions, officials said.

MALE (Reuters) – The Maldivian president and ministers held the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting yesterday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the tropical archipelago’s existence.

KABUL (Reuters) – Senior foreign officials yesterday pressed President Hamid Karzai to resolve a disputed election which has threatened to undermine the Western effort to stabilise Afghanistan.

Gunmen in Rockfort go on robbing, shooting spree; residents in fear of what’s next (Jamaica Gleaner) – Residents were cowering in Rockfort, east Kingston, yesterday after a long-running gang feud escalated early Friday morning.

US Federal Judge Dora Irizarry yesterday afternoon said that while no sentence imposed on confessed drug trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan would make right whatever atrocities he had committed, the fact that he would serve time in a US prison meant that justice has been served.

By Cathy Richards A 61-year-old Wismar man, who was returning home from his sister’s Georgetown funeral with a car load of relatives, died last night after the vehicle slammed into the side of a stationary truck without its park lights on.

US authorities have charged 41 lenders, lawyers and others in the real estate industry, including some with Guyanese roots, with participating in mortgage fraud schemes that preyed on New York homeowners facing foreclosure.

-fishing boat captain has different versionBy Tiffny Rhodius The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) yesterday said that its ferry had tried to avoid the fishing vessel, the Regina II, before they collided on Wednesday night off the Pomeroon coast and the captain of the latter recounted the harrowing experience which led to the vessel sinking.

-to be transit point for Brazilian goodsBy Cathy Richards A US$4 million transshipment container terminal at Christianburg, Wismar, Linden, will be the transit point for the passage of goods from Brazil to Guyana for movement into the Caribbean and beyond.

Sugar workers at the La Bonne Intention (LBI) estate continued their strike action yesterday, even as workers on other estates resumed work.

No matter race or religion, all Guyanese should light a diya to symbolize the national motto, One People,  One Nation, One Destiny, says  C.N.

The PNCR says despite the challenges, citizens should use the occasion of Diwali to renew their hope that good triumphs over evil and to resolve to rid Guyana of the ills plaguing it.

The Guyana Agricultural and General  Workers Union says that the messages implicit in Diwali are universal and apply to all Guyanese, although not everyone is a Hindu, and need not be.

The Indian Arrival Committee  (IAC)   urges all Guyanese  to pay heed to the  important messages of  Diwali and to resist evil  in all its forms.