Guyana News

-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.

A Georgetown resident fears for his life and those of his family after being attacked by “channa-bomb throwers” several times this year.

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday granted a pastor, who is accused of indecently assaulting a women, bail in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Ministry of Health will now be conducting inspections without notice at health care facilities in light of the recent dumping of medical waste at Camp Street.

Recently elected PNCR Georgetown Chairperson, Volda Lawrence headed a picket outside Freedom House yesterday afternoon in a continued bid to press for an international i3 nvestigation into the alleged links between the Guyana government and confessed drug trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan.

The Money Transfer Agencies (Licensing) Act will be put into operation on October 1.

The Ministry of Health on Monday donated bicycles to 13 junior medical personnel from China attached to the Linden hospital.

The Guyana Red Cross Society and Lethem and St Ignatius residents recently installed 74 traffic signs in the two communities.

City Mayor Hamilton Green’s accession to the hierarchy of the main opposition People’s National Congress following years out of the inner circle is an indication the party is one capable of reconciliation, leader Robert Corbin has asserted.

President of GAWU, Komal Chand said the new Skeldon factory has an enormous capacity to increase efficiency in the sugar industry but he contended that serious attention was not paid to adequate cane cultivation to coincide with full operations at the estate.

Sir Shridath Ramphal says a reference he made about ethnic cleansing in a speech in Trinidad on June 25th was in relation to a June 17th editorial in the Barbados Nation newspaper and not about Barbados or any other country in the Caribbean.

The man accused of murdering 28-year-old Martin Daniels at Wanakai, North West District was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Priya Beharry granted bail to three men who allegedly stole several speakers and other musical appliances, property of Fusion Sound System, and another man who reportedly received some of the stolen items, when they appeared before her on Monday at the Georgetown Court.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Disgraced R&B star Chris  Brown was sentenced to five years’ probation and 180 days of  community labour yesterday for beating up his then-girlfriend,  pop singer Rihanna.

KABUL, (Reuters) – With early results yesterday  showing Afghanistan’s presidential race neck-and-neck, a massive  truck bomb that killed 40 civilians and wounded 60 in Kandahar  showed the scale of problems facing the eventual winner.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – A prosecutor demanded yesterday  “maximum punishment” for a senior reformer accused of acting  against national security, a crime which can carry the death  sentence, in Iran’s fourth mass trial of moderates since a  disputed election.

OAK BLUFFS, Massachusetts – U.S. President Barack Obama  nominated Ben Bernanke to a second term as Federal Reserve  chairman yesterday, aiming for continuity at a time when the  U.S.

-relatives held as accessories Hours before Dweive Kant Ramdass was laid to rest yesterday, three Coast Guards who allegedly strangled him to death before robbing him of $17M, appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court charged with murder.

-criticize continued joint service harassmentWith a mixture of anger and sadness enveloping the atmosphere, hundreds of Barticians turned out in large numbers yesterday to bid their final farewell to the late Dweive Kant Ramdass, the young gold dealer who met his demise allegedly at the hands of three Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard ranks last week.

-collect $1.5M in attackIn a chilling attack, six masked bandits, armed with guns and a cutlass, took hostages on Sunday as they made their getaway after robbing a Corenytne family of over $1.5M in cash, jewellery and other articles.