Guyana News

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake killed at  least 35 people and forced thousands to flee homes and offices  in Indonesia yesterday, government agencies said.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh says this year the ministry has resolved to ensure that teachers dedicate themselves to attaining a higher percentage of attendance and punctuality.

BEERSHEBA, Israel, (Reuters) – Researchers in Israel  say they have developed a computer programme that can decipher  previously unreadable ancient texts and possibly lead the way to  a Google-like search engine for historical documents.

The Guyana Relief Council has provided assistance to the family members of Joseph Fordyce of 2nd St, Silvertown, Wismar who were affected by fire on August 28.

-maintains it was case of mistaken identity Wayne Smith, one of the survivors of the Savage Street ambush said that the gunmen’s intention on Sunday morning was to kill and stressed that neither he nor the other occupants of the car could have been the intended targets.

…as Amerindian Heritage Month launched Amerindian heritage month celebrations got off to a lively start yesterday with messages of gratitude to the Amerindian people for their part in shaping a true Guyanese cultural identity and President Bharrat Jagdeo promised $2B worth of access roads in three key regions.

Under growing pressure to come up with answers on the fate of a 10-year-old boy missing in a hit-and-run boat accident, the police yesterday said a suspect was apprehended and later released but they are still pursuing leads into a green boat that he was aboard on the day in question.

-analysis confirms presence of at least six persons Thirteen months after they first took DNA samples, Jamaican forensic experts have requested more samples for four of the miners who were killed and their bodies burnt at Lindo Creek last June, according to a release from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Police are yet to indicate whether they have managed to locate the city house where Rorhema Dookie, daughter of Kitty businessman Beharry `Natoo’ Dookie, was kept for approximately 24 hours by her abductors last week.

Veronica Atherley, the 59–year-old newspaper vendor who sustained a gunshot wound to her hip last Saturday after a man opened fire on two robbers and missed his target, was moved to the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital from the Female Surgical Ward after her condition took a turn for the worse.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said last week that corruption remains an issue at customs which is still reeling from the polar beer scandal from a year ago, and according to him investigations are continuing into the activities of some officers.

The police are yet to arrest the Haslington resident who stabbed 17-year-old Vanessa Collins even though he has reportedly been seen in his home village walking the streets.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has once again found itself unable to honour its financial commitments as regards payments for its workers and garbage contractors, which will result in refuse not being collected in communities in the city over the coming days.

Aishalton toshao says malaria up It is almost the end of the rainy season in the Deep South Rupununi and there has scarcely been any rain.

A 32-year-old man was on Monday admitted to the male surgical ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing a stab wound to his chest after being involved in an accident with a motorcyclist which developed into road rage.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Commonwealth said yesterday  it had suspended Fiji after the Pacific Island nation failed to  meet a deadline for opening talks on a return to democracy.

Trade unionist Lincoln Lewis was yesterday placed on self-bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s court on a charge of unlawfully picketing with Mark Benschop and Norris Witter outside Police Headquarters, Eve Leary in July.

-one says he was on his way home from cinema By Ayanna Blair Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that two men, who were accused of being accomplices in the theft of bicycles from a King Street store last Tuesday, be remanded to prison when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

CHIMALTENANGO, Guatemala, (Reuters) – A former  military commissioner became the first person to be convicted  of the forced disappearance of people in Guatemala’s 36-year  civil war on Monday, and was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Canada’s decision to grant  refugee status to a South African who said he was persecuted  because he is white drew accusations of racism from the  country’s ruling ANC yesterday.