Guyana News

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – The United States, criticized  for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run  jails, yesterday announced plans to convert hotels to detain  some noncriminal immigrants.  

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Police in Uganda have arrested  one of the four most wanted suspects from Rwanda’s 1994  genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, after he entered the country by  bus last week from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.  

Pupils at a primary school in the southern county of Cork  are being asked to bring their own toilet paper to school to  help save money, one of the starkest examples yet of the death  of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” economy.  

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss authorities rejected yesterday an appeal by lawyers for Roman Polanski, arrested in  September after fleeing America in 1978 from an underage sex  charge, to release the film director from prison.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Bookmak-ers’ favourite Hilary  Mantel won the coveted Man Booker Prize yesterday for the  historical novel “Wolf Hall”, edging out her nearest rival by  three votes to two in the final phase of judging. 

Taylor, 77, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure  five years ago and also has endured severe back problems and a  benign brain tumor operation.

-DNA tests to proceed on gutted bodies The man who is said to be in charge of the vessel whose crew members washed up along the Essequibo without innards, yesterday denied that the craft was connected to drug smuggling.

A Guyanese couple was recently jailed in Croydon, England over fraudulently claiming about 100,000 pounds in benefits after stealing the identities of a brother and sister.

A 14-year-old student of a Berbice Secondary School is recovering from a head injury at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was struck by a shot put during a school athletics event last Thursday afternoon.

The high cost of bandwidth continues to be a deterrent to overseas investors and may have cost the country between 2,000 to 3,000 jobs, Head of Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) Geoffrey Da Silva said recently.

The attempt on the life of former Commissioner of In-surance Maria van Beek remains unsolved and according to the Guyana Police Force the investigation is virtually stalled.

A 24-year-old woman accused of falsely obtaining the sum of $805,000 from her uncle’s bank account was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– court told A 34-year-old woman accused of converting a quantity of raw gold to her own use was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The finance controller of the Princess Hotel who was held with nearly $3 million (US$14,000) minutes before he was scheduled to leave the country on a Delta Airlines flight bound for New York, was yesterday placed on $300,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A man who fathered a child with his reputed wife’s 14-year-old daughter was charged with two counts of carnal knowledge when he appeared yesterday before Magistrate Chandra Sohan at the New Amsterdam  Court.

Life in Nappi, a Macushi village located some 25 miles from Lethem, is simple.

The US Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) recently concluded a two-day seminar for members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) from September 28-29.

After 45 years of long and dedicated service to the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU) general secretary Grantley Culbard has retired and has challenged the younger members of the union to step forward and shoulder the responsibility of leadership.

The body of a man, suspected to have committed suicide yesterday at a city hotel is now at the Lyken Funeral Home.