Guyana News

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe yesterday signed a bill calling for a referendum to ask voters if they want to change the constitution to allow the popular US ally to run for a third term next year.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union expressed serious concern yesterday about Israel’s decision to approve new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, calling them an obstacle to peace and adding to international condemnation.

-stepson in custody He had returned for his brother’s funeral but some time between Sunday night and Monday morning, US-based Guyanese Moti Singh was stabbed multiple times at a roadside at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, where he was left to die.

– wounded victim has bullet lodged in head Gunmen launched a brazen attack on a mining dredge anchored in the Barama River last Saturday, leaving one man dead, another seriously wounded and four others, including a pregnant woman, thankful to be alive.

In a drunken rage, a man attacked his step son with a cutlass, inflicting severe wounds on him after he stood up against the brutal treatment of his mother.

Upset over the “unhealthy environment” in which their children were being educated, angry parents yesterday “closed down” the Belladrum Primary School and staged a protest in front of the Regional Democratic Council office at Fort Wellington, demanding better conditions.

A 14-year old student of the Freeburg Secondary School on Norton Street in the city sustained an injury to his upper back yesterday afternoon after he was stabbed by another student with an ice pick following an argument.

The government has accused Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Dr Steve Surujbally of squandering money, opportunity and goodwill in his “failure to deliver” local government elections on time.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson sentenced a man to one year imprisonment after he admitted stealing a guard’s shoulder bag containing several items.

A 33-year-old man, who admitted that he stole a quantity of construction equipment from Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC), was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine or spend nine months in prison, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Even as UNESCO observes International Literacy Day today, it recognizes the need to improve literacy and adult learning internationally and regionally.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that two men, one accused of shooting another with an unlicensed gun and another man accused of snatching a woman’s gold chain, be remanded to prison shortly after they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday placed a teenage boy on a two-year bond to keep the peace while she ordered that another be kept in police custody when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of robbing two school children of cell phones, among other items, in separate incidents.

The persons detained by police as they investigated the murder of octogenarian Kharpattie Shivnauth have been released.

The recent Working People’s Alliance (WPA) warning against any attempt to subvert presidential term limits was prompted by renewed indications of a possible referendum on the question attached to upcoming local government polls.

Cops probe origin of paint on Coast Guard vessel The police are in receipt of the report from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) that suggests the possible involvement of a Coast Guard vessel in the Essequibo River incident that claimed two lives and left a 10-year-old boy missing.

-hosts must provide bond for some visitors Antigua has rescinded its decision to hold the passports of non-national children until their departure, following complaints by Guyana, but now requires that some applicants for entry into the country provide a bond as a surety from the resident host.

Police are currently questioning persons who witnessed the fatal stabbing of Jamal Clarke on Norton Street, Werk-en-Rust last Saturday night, but are yet to make an arrest.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in its preparations for Local Government Elections has recommended to the Minister of Local Government that the number of seats in seven Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) be reduced to allow for adequate delimitation of constituencies in a manner that will facilitate effective representation.

Syringes and other dangerous medical waste may have ended up exposed at dumpsites because people were after the containers they were originally stored in.