Guyana News

Eight days of high tides began on Monday and several vulnerable areas across the country’s coastline are under surveillance.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – Former President Kim Dae-jung, a  giant in South Korea’s shift to democracy who won the 2000  Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to forge a reconciliation  with the prickly communist North, died yesterday at the age of  85.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Criminal impunity has become an  increasing target of public anger in Sri Lanka since the end of  a 25-year war in May, which exposed the extent to which the  rule of law has eroded in the Indian Ocean island nation.

Like other Dochfour farmers, single mother Omwattie Manooj wakes early to work in her small farm in the cool of the day.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had   arrested eight people for hijacking a merchant ship off the  Swedish coast and diverting it to the Atlantic Ocean — while  maritime authorities pretended they had lost track of it.

Carl Fraser was on Monday sentenced to a one year prison sentence after pleading guilty to breaking and entering another man’s house and stealing a DVD player along with a quantity of DVDs and CDs.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe  stepped closer to re-election yesterday when a congressional  committee approved a bill aimed at allowing him to run for a  third term next May, but a tough vote looms in the full House.

Magistrate Priya Beharry on Monday remanded a pork-knocker who allegedly assaulted and burned his common-law wife with a lit cigarette after an argument.

A man, who allegedly assaulted and injured both his wife and eighteen-month-old daughter, was on Monday remanded to prison.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch city of Rotterdam  and its university have fired Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan  as an adviser to the city over his involvement with groups that  detractors say hurt his role as an expert on integration issues.

-bad blood blame for savage attack A North Sophia man died after he was savagely stabbed to the neck and stoned by another man in the area late Sunday night.

Giftland Office Max was spared a major disaster last night after employees working extra hours managed to extinguish a fire that broke out near the generating room at the store’s Water Street location.

A 36-year-old chicken farmer wants all and sundry to know that he never turned against confessed drug trafficker Roger Khan and that he was willing to testify that Khan was a “building contractor because that is what I know he as.”

The US government yesterday said it has no objection to drug trafficker Roger Khan’s sentencing date  being moved from November 6 to a date on or after September 14, as has been requested by his lawyers.

-also has to serve out Guadeloupe prison term David Narine, a man who was charged with conspiracy to import drugs into the US and who likely played a key role in the drug case against Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan is to be sentenced shortly in the US and also has to complete part of a sentence he was serving in Guadeloupe.

The driver of the pick up which collided with a couple at Garden of Eden, killing them on Sunday night, had been drinking heavily, according to police.

“I plead insanity,” screamed Randy Samuels as he entered the courtroom at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where he appeared on a charge of snatching a girl’s cell phone.

Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday remanded a University of Guyana (UG) student, who allegedly conspired with another man to obtain over $1.8M from the Mahaica Post Office, to prison when he appeared on felony charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Ethnic Relations  Commission (ERC)  is investigating  an official complaint it has received  from Kwame McCoy, Press and Publicity Officer, Office of the President, against Freddie Kissoon, a Kaieteur News columnist,   regarding  a recent article titled ‘Ten Years of Jagdeo – Faustian Journey’.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) continues to monitor a gastro-like illness affecting residents in Region One (Barima/Waini) even  as new reports surface of  recent deaths in the Moruca Sub-Region .