Guyana News

BALANTIAK, Indonesia (Reuters) – Rescue teams pushed  deeper into Indone-sia’s earthquake-hit Sumatra yesterday,  finding entire villages obliterated by landslides and survivors  desperate for aid three days after the tremor.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Film director Roman  Polanski agreed to pay the victim in his sex crime case at  least $500,000 as part of a civil settlement reached years  after he fled the United States, the Los Angeles Times reported  yesterday.

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) – Hundreds of  Nigerian rebel fighters gave up their weapons and accepted an  amnesty deal yesterday in the most concerted effort yet to end  years of fighting in the oil-producing Niger Delta.

The AFC last week announced that it would be observing its fourth year as a political party on October 29.

A Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara man was fatally stabbed last evening following an argument with another relative over a family property.

– irate family wants thorough probe Relatives and friends of an Industrial Area, Mackenzie man are calling for a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding him being shot in the back by the police yesterday.

-family of missing trawler crew member The relatives of Titus Buckery Nascimento, a member of a missing trawler crew, have accepted that one of the bullet-riddled bodies that washed up on beaches in the Essequibo River was his, as the family of another seaman has come forward fearing he may have suffered a similar fate.

Guyana’s investment attractiveness was yesterday emphasized at a special investment seminar organised by the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) as part of the activities for this year’s GuyExpo.

– drug trafficker tells court A 32-year-old man who admitted having a quantity of cannabis and cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking at the Mackenzie Market Square, Linden told Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, “Ya Worship I ain’t want fuh be no robber man so I had to do wah I had to do.”

Two sisters, one successful and the other struggling to find a market for her products, have joined to display handmade hats, bags and a few novelty items at GuyExpo 2009 in hope of locating buyers and opportunities for business linkages.

Prison officer Ashanti MC Allister was yesterday charged with negligently allowing persons in custody to escape.

Questioning the ruling PPP/C of benefitting from state resources through the acquisition of three house lots at Bath Village, West Coast Berbice, AFC Vice-Chairperson Sheila Holder yesterday called on Housing Minister Irfaan Ali to release full details surrounding the acquisition.

Two of the six men who were recently apprehended by police in a house in Albouystown, were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with committing a string of crimes in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara.

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday launched a Farmer’s Climate Change Guide to assist those in the sector to cope with the effects of the weather phenomenon.

Professor Norman Girvan is tipped to be the United Nations Good Officer in the Guyana/Venezuela border issue.

Three `customers’ one of whom was armed with a handgun yesterday failed to execute a robbery at Universal Travel and Tour Company at High Street, as they could not penetrate the security system and eventually fled when an alarm was raised.

Free cervical cancer screening will be provided later this month through collaboration between the Ministry of Health and Jhpiego and Omni Med, USA with results given immediately and if treatment is needed this would be rendered also.

In an effort to counteract the stigma associated with disabled persons, a four-day workshop will be held here next week on the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Wednesday conducted a simulated aircraft crash exercise in keeping with International Civil Aviation Organization requirement.

On October 25, Guyanese-born Anguillian Magistrate Mrs Birnie Stephenson Brooks who has been appointed a High Court judge in Dominica, will be taking up her appointment there.