Guyana News

Two men have been arrested following the discovery of an unlicensed firearm and a round of matching ammunition.

A Ministry of Health medical team which was dispatched to the North West District following six deaths from a gastro-like illness over the past few weeks is fanning out to other areas after concentrating on the Moruca Sub-Region where the illness had been most prevalent.

Alliance for Change leader Raphael Trotman has called on the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines to refrain from commenting on the issue of presidential term limits in Guyana saying that the issue pertains to “our constitution”.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday granted bail to a Banks DIH truck driver and a salesman who pleaded not guilty to converting a quantity of beverages to their own use and benefit.

– but concerns raised over placementsNovar Primary School at Mahaicony has topped Region Five at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) with 14 students gaining over 500 and four being among the top 100 in the country.

Caricom should not view regional interest in the ALBA grouping (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) as a threat to its growth, Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) Prime Minister Patrick Manning said adding there should be dialogue between the two bodies.

Vishnu Panday and Associates Inc recently presented Andreasa Morris, the 2008 best graduating computer science student of the University of Guyana (UG), with its Shivraj Maraj Award.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said yesterday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.

MANAGUA (Reuters) – Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Monday that if the interim government does not agree at mediation talks this week to reinstate him, he will consider the dialogue has failed.

HAVANA (Reuters) – The Catholic Church said a Spanish priest was found dead in Cuba yesterday in the second suspected murder of a clergyman on the communist-run Caribbean island in five months.

(BBC) – A mother and son from the West Midlands have admitted arranging “sham” marriages for foreign nationals, mainly from Africa and Jamaica.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Cuba plan to resume talks on Cuban migration to the United States today, a US official said, a dialogue that is part of US President Barack Obama’s bid to engage the communist island.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Cut your finger? Hurt your leg? Start swearing.

JALOZAI CAMP, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan began yesterday to send home about two million people who fled their homes two months ago because of an army assault on Taliban militants in the Swat valley.

-found in car trunk with plastic taped over head Ramzan Alli, a Good Hope businessman, was yesterday discovered dead in the trunk of a rental car with a plastic bag duct-taped over his head on the Coldingen Railway Embankment Road.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, (Reuters) – If there’s one group  of executives at this week’s Sun Valley media and technology  conference who ought to be in good spirits, it’s the handful  steering the fleet of Internet social networks.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Deep in the world’s tropical  rainforests, workers are hammering thousands of barcodes into  hardwood trees to help in the fight against illegal logging,  corruption and global warming.

With the model farm joint venture between Neal and Massy’s (NM) Geddes Grant division and the Government serving as a “hub”, the eventual participation of other private sector investors in the Mon Repos project is envisaged.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) –  Fresh reports of alleged  fraud and embezzlement by Brazil Senate chief Jose Sarney in  Brazil’s weekend press are fueling an ongoing Senate ethics  scandal and have renewed pressure for Sarney to resign.

-Meeting of Atlantic branch of CPA opens Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran last evening called for the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP) to be resourced and seriously promoted as an institution of Caricom “to bring the views of parliamentarians across the region to bear on the integration process”.