Guyana News

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s state-run oil  company Pemex has an endemic problem of fuel thefts from  pipelines that was highlighted this week in a case involving  stolen oil smuggled into the United States.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Supporters of ousted  Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clashed with soldiers and  police for a second day yesterday as street protests over  the June 28 army coup turned rowdy.

-one missing, family raises robbery motive Two men are dead and a ten-year-old boy is missing following a boat accident in the Essequibo River but some relatives have raised the theory that the craft was rammed and the men robbed.

`It was win at all costs!’ Robert Simels and his assistant Arianne Irving knew that Roger Khan was involved in narcotics, prosecutor Morris Fodeman told a Brooklyn, New York courtroom yesterday and he charged that Simels dispatched star witness Selwyn Vaughn like a loaded weapon to threaten witnesses.

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin remains tight-lipped as to whether he will be contesting for the party’s top post at the upcoming Biennial Congress, even as the Head of the Accreditation Committee Lance Carberry says that measures are being put in place to ensure that the electoral system at the Congress is transparent.

Dorsette McCammon, accused of murdering a policeman, was unanimously acquitted last evening by a 12-member mixed jury in the High Court at Berbice.

Trudy, Tracy and Trina Vanlonge, triplets from Rupertee Village in the Rupununi, Region Nine, visited Guyana’s capital for the first time yesterday and met Prime Minister Samuel Hinds who is at present performing the duties of President, according to a release from the Government Information Agency.

A 25-year-old Field Supervisor attached to the Enmore Estate was attacked by armed men yesterday morning.

The Rotary and Rotaract clubs of Demerara recently handed over wheelchairs to 14 physically-challenged residents of Linden.

-says it should lead by example The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday lashed out at government’s intention to arbitrarily use polygraph tests on employees within the operational arm of the state.

-production target slashed Following weeks of a production shutdown, Chinese-owned BOSAI Minerals Group Guyana Inc.

-probation officer to probe Randy Ganesh, the man who stabbed his father twice after the father had intervened in an argument between Randy and his wife was yesterday placed before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of unlawful and malicious wounding.

-contract awarded for $5.9M Long awaited rehabilitation work on the Brickdam lock-ups, recently in the spotlight over its inhumane conditions, will begin Friday.

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is implementing a US$2.8M automated Customer Information System (CIS) that is expected to boost the accuracy of the cash receipting process.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communication recently awarded four contracts for sea defence works in the Coren-tyne, East Bank Berbice and at West Canje.

More than $50M has already been spent for the community D&I project since its advent under the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and 1,933 labourers have been employed, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC)  last Monday commenced a  series of meetings with members of the   Hindu, Muslim and Christian constituencies as well as with representatives of women, labour, the private sector, youth and civil society, a press release from the ERC said.

A 19-year-old, who allegedly stole just over $100,000 from the dwelling house of a man, was remanded to prison when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  assailed insurance companies yesterday and scolded critics in  a bid to overcome skepticism of a U.S.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican troops have found  what may be a hide-out of the country’s No.