Guyana News

Salimoon Rahaman is appealing to the joint services to “come clean” about whether rogue elements of the army could have been involved in the boat accident in the Essequibo River that killed her husband and a neighbour and  left her ten-year-old son missing.

Four men who allegedly conspired to steal over $6.5M from a bank account held at Republic Bank for the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) were all remanded to prison yesterday.

-Bar Association President of the Guyana Bar Association Teni Housty says the actions of Magistrate Yohannseh Cave in the David Leander trial reflect the legal system at work, while adding that the judiciary must continue to act fearlessly.

For Basdeo Narine, what may have been an unintentional bump landed him in a hospital bed.

Organisers of the just-concluded Guyana Fashion Weekend 2009 have denied a report of an “almost electrocution” at the event published in the Kaieteur News.

The Lions Club of West Berbice distributed clothing hampers to residents of Profitt/Belladrum last week.

The taxi driver, who allegedly struck down an elderly woman and then dropped her off at her house instead of a hospital, was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with causing her death.

-relatives demand answers Dwayne Archibald, one of the six inmates who attempted to escape from the Georgetown Prisons last December, died last Thursday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being stabbed by another prisoner in June.

Former Prime Minister Hamilton Green is among the new members of the recently elected Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR).

Two Guyanese operators of a Florida-based luxury charter jet company, responsible for a crash that prosecutors blame on fraud, have pleaded guilty.

Oil exploration company CGX Energy Incorporated says it will now cost an estimated US$20M less to drill the key offshore Corentyne Eagle Deep Well and it says it is encouraged by the time and depth images and its initial interpretation of the conventional processing of its 3D seismic survey.

-as road accidents pile up Doddy Latchman was the victim of a freak accident last Friday when he was hit in the head with a piece of lumber.

Twelve-year-old Zimeena Rasheed expected to do well at the recently-concluded Champion Readers’ Competition.

-cooperation pacts sealed Mayor of the Chongqing Municipality of China, Wang Hongju has donated $9M of equipment to the Ministry of Agriculture for distribution to local farmers.

Sol Guyana Inc. has donated 30 branded garbage bins to the Young Leaders of Guyana youth group for its clean-up campaign.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sub-Lieutenant Coast Guard Johnny Talbot has been participating in shipboard training with the Brazilian navy.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) have formalised a partnership to develop strategies for mitigating the physical and economic impacts of natural disasters.

-Guyana Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-I-Islam The Guyana Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-I-Islam says that the self-sacrifice, the acts of divine worship and the recommended practices of charity during Ramadhan will turn a shining light on man’s duty to his Creator and to his fellow humankind.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) says it is appropriate to reflect on the lessons “in constancy and sincerity” embodied in the observance of the blessed month of Ramadhan.

The editors of the Guyana Annual magazine are currently accepting entries for the 2009-2010 edition.