Guyana News

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Roberto Micheletti, the  headstrong veteran politician who took power in Honduras when  President Manuel Zelaya was toppled, is defying international  pressure to reinstate his old friend and end media curbs.  

-another facing forgery charge Two Guyanese men recently found themselves in hot water with Antiguan authorities over immigration matters.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon  Brown will repay more than 12,000 pounds of expenses claims for  cleaning, gardening and decorating after a independent review  found he had exceeded revised limits over the past five years.  

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 41  people in an attack on a Pakistani military convoy passing  through a market yesterday as the Taliban claimed  responsibility for a weekend raid on the army’s headquarters.

A new local comedy show featuring some of Guyana’s best and emerging dramatic and comic talents is expected to hit local airways soon.

…two months after boat mystery By Gaulbert Sutherland The whereabouts of 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine remain a mystery two months after he disappeared following an Essequibo River boat collision that left his father and another man dead and despite tantalizing clues, authorities have thus far failed to pinpoint the other vessel.

`…the whole appearance of the village gives a dim view and so people are afraid to come to visit.

After almost 11 years of revellers disrupting their Deepavali celebrations, terrorizing their old folk and children, Alexander Village residents are beseeching law enforcement bodies to render assistance this year and they are determined to reclaim the peace they previously enjoyed.

-driver held A 13-year-old boy died at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday, several hours after being hit by a truck while riding his bicycle on the Cane Grove, Mahaica public road.

The 50 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, who allegedly violated immigration laws and were ordered to leave the country by September 30, have been replaced.

By Sara Bharrat The drunk stood near the stern of the overcrowded boat threatening to throw himself into the Corentyne River after having spent the past half an hour complaining about the row he had with his neighbour.

Sunil Singh, the 8-year-old who was struck down by a canter on the Mahaicony Public Road last Wednesday, is showing some signs of improvement but is still attached to a life support machine.

-Ministry publishes new list of noise offenders Stop the noise, the Ministry of Home Affairs is urging as it yesterday published the addresses of those it identified as being noise nuisances to their communities.

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir told an audience at the launch of the Strategic HIV/AIDS Response for Enterprise and Tripartite constituents (SHARET) workshop that though Guyana lags in some areas government remains committed to the fight against the infection.

Two persons who allegedly had a quantity of cannabis and cocaine in their possession for the purpose of trafficking were remanded to prison last Wednesday after the police were tipped off about a Lethem transaction and staked out the area.

The Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL), which up to late August owed farmers in Regions Five and Six $290M, still has about $58M outstanding and is expected to complete a portion of the payment by early this week.

Private farming developer Deodat Deokilnandan of Red Wind Polder in Region Three has indicated that he would provide the $1.2M  required to build a sluice to assist the irrigation of his farms which are in low lying areas behind GuySuCo fields and formerly belonged to the sugar company.

Over 125 “defects” such as dirty yards, overgrowth and defective septic tanks were discovered by public health personnel during inspections carried out in Georgetown last month and the city council is urging residents to keep the environment clean.

Chile is to test the viability of producing next-generation biofuels using biomass waste from its wood industries with a US$1 million technical cooperation grant approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

The CARICOM Single Market is working but varying levels of commitment and emphasis on specific initiatives “bedevil implementation in a consistent and timely manner,” Prime Minister of Barbados David Thompson said on Friday.