Guyana News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US authorities yesterday arrested seven people from North Carolina who have been charged with plotting to carry out terrorist attacks overseas, including in Kosovo, Jordan and the Gaza Strip.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian rebels have obtained rockets that Venezuela bought in Europe, the government in Bogota said yesterday, an accusation that could worsen already tense relations between the neighbouring countries.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A boat with between 160 and 200 Haitian migrants aboard capsized and sank off the Turks and Caicos islands yesterday, according to US Coast Guard crews helping local authorities rescue survivors from the reefs.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti and the Dominican Republic reinforced troops at their shared border after violence broke out at a protest in the Dominican Republic demanding extradition of a Haitian man accused of murder in both countries, Haiti’s foreign minister said yesterday.

…were on their way to wedding Three persons with Guyanese roots were killed in a collision between their mini-van and a pick-up, which was heading the wrong way on a Georgia highway on Saturday.

Heston Bostwick, who allegedly inflicted wounds to his chest one day after he turned himself into the police for questioning in relation to the Ministry of Health fire, remains in custody and the details of his wounding are still not clear.

…wife fled with child after beating A Cane Grove businessman was yesterday in a critical condition in the burn care unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after allegedly beating his reputed wife and setting their home ablaze.

An early morning accident yesterday along the Winifred Gaskin Highway at Wismar, Linden has left a BOSAI security officer dead.

-eyeing four-star rating Ongoing rehabilitation at the Princess International Hotel at Providence will see the establishment achieving at least a four-star rating and it is moving ahead with US$2M casino plans, its Operations Director Oguz Tayanc has said.

Full-time MPs are needed for effective parliamentary oversight, Opposition Chief Whip Lance Carberry says.

The suspect in the robbery of a Linden Digicel store on Friday turned himself in to law enforcement officials on Saturday night.

-Carrington tells CARICOM institutions Representatives of regional institutions meeting at the  CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen last week, were urged to devise methods of implementation of decisions, particularly those taken by Heads of Government.

– Ramjattan AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan has described the offer of a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the arsonist/s responsible for the torching of the Health Ministry as a “dangerous” development.

Another convocation under the Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training (YEST) Programme for the non-residential Sophia Training Centre (STC) was hosted at the CARIFESTA Sports Complex by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport last Friday.

A 27-year-old man was up to last night in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being stabbed at the East Coast Demerara mini-bus park.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) recently targeted some 300 women in a series of workshops aimed at promoting  the elimination of racial, social and religious discrimination in Guyana while  encouraging them to create respect for forms of diversity in Guyana’s plural society.

A prisoner in the lock-ups at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court  on Friday morning reported that his $5,000 and a cell phone  had gone missing, leading to a police search which caused an enraged robbery and murder accused to shout expletives and threats.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Friday remanded to prison a woman and a man who were allegedly found with a quantity of cannabis in their possession for the purpose of trafficking at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.

A thirty-two-year-old man who allegedly attempted to sell a car which another man had entrusted to him to operate was on Friday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) is now offering a Distance Education (DE) Secondary Academic Certificate Programme in addition to its DE Early Childhood and Primary Certificate programmes.