Guyana News

The Mora Point Health Centre, Mahaicony River has been renamed after the late Shri Prakash Gossai.

GuyExpo, the national trade fair and exhibition has been scheduled to October 1.

Guyana and Suriname have agreed to cooperate and exchange expertise in the management of pests, in particular in plantains and bananas in the initial stage.

-Greene Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday said that the police have no evidence to believe there was foul play in the Essequibo River accident that left two men dead and a 10-year-old missing, as relatives are claiming.

Alexis Anne Lester, the Sophia woman whose body was discovered Tuesday night in a canal just behind the Botanical Gardens, may have been strangled.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) says it is “gravely concerned” over recent and current allegations made against various units and members of the Disciplined Services.

-Home Ministry Following the death of prisoner Davendra Beharry last Friday at the Georgetown Prison, it was discovered that the Prison Authorities were in breach of the Prisons Act and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (UNSMRTP).

The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of alleged burglar Mark Heywood by police on Tuesday.

-rejects multiple voting claims Re-elected People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) leader Robert Corbin says multiple voting could not have been possible during polls at the party’s recent Biennial Congress, noting that delegates were allowed to make their own observations and objections every step of the way.

More than half of the road network within the interior is virtually impassable, according to Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) senior mining engineer Michael Howard.

Veteran trade unionist Lincoln Lewis is appealing to citizens to mount a quiet, sustained campaign of “civil disobedience,” saying that the failure of the ruling party has led to a failing state.

-Licence office Motor vehicle registration is moving at a rapid pace, according to the Licence Revenue Office (LRO), which is reporting that a record 9,999 vehicles were registered in the ‘LL’ series by August 10, 2009.

HYANNIS PORT, Mass (Reuters) – US Senator Edward  Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the  helm of one of America’s most fabled political families after  two older brothers were assassinated, died at age 77, his  family said.

KABUL (Reuters) – Partial results from last week’s  election put Afghan President Hamid Karzai ahead of main rival  Abdullah Abdullah, but not by enough to avoid a second round  run-off in October, figures released yesterday showed.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dominick Dunne, the American  author and journalist best known for his coverage of  high-profile court cases such as the O.J.

-two others wounded in confrontation with police A Robb Street man who was shot three times by the police yesterday when he and others were caught stealing cycles from the Crescent Cycle Store, succumbed hours later while undergoing emergency surgery.

The body of a Sophia woman was discovered last evening in the canal just behind the Botanical Gardens.

Judge Dora Irizarry yesterday ruled that confessed drug trafficker Roger Khan will now be sentenced on October 16 in her New York court.

By Ayanna Blair Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday granted Mahendranauth Singh, the 21-year-old man, who is accused of causing the deaths of two Tuschen cousins two Sundays ago, bail in the sum of $1.1M when he appeared before her at the Leonora Court.

-have video tape of green paint on broken boat Relatives of the two men who died in the Essequibo River accident on August 11 which also left a 10-year-old boy missing  are convinced that foul play was involved and one of them has a video tape of green paint on the shattered boat  which could lead back to the coast guard.