Guyana News

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – A group of 133 Irish lawyers yesterday demanded the scrapping of a draft law against gangland  crime they say will hurt constitutional rights by allowing  non-jury trials, secret hearings and “opinion evidence”.

A two-day regional workshop aimed at promoting sustainable chainsaw milling in the Guiana Shield/Caribbean got underway yesterday at the Regency Suites Hotel, with  the importance of the sector being underscored but a warning also that recovery rates need to be improved.

RAMAT HASHARON, Israel, (Reuters) – In the late  1990s, a computer specialist from Israel’s Shin Bet internal  security service hacked into the mainframe of the Pi Glilot fuel  depot north of Tel Aviv.

Toshao of Moruka, Joseph De Souza yesterday confirmed that there had been two more deaths in Moruka from a gastro-like affliction bringing the toll to at least six while a number of persons have fallen sick even as a health team from Georgetown investigates.

A 25-year-old taxi-driver died early yesterday after his car collided with a canter truck on the Versailles, West Bank Demerara public road.

-wants the company of Spanish speakers Centenarian Mabel Connell nee Costress, who celebrates her 104th birthday today, hopes to one day live to see 110 and  is requesting that Spanish speakers visit her at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital where she is a resident patient so she can converse with them.

The main opposition PNCR  is insisting that donor agencies exercise greater determination to ensure that there is transparency, equity, fairness and accountability in the public procurement process.

Nalini Mohammed nee Shivram, currently suffering from end stage renal disease, is now bedridden and is still pleading for help.

Fifteen-year-old Onika Holder, who died at approximately 8 pm on Monday night when the car in which she was travelling smashed into a utility pole along the Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara, was said to have sustained multiple fractures to the skull.

-boat hit log, survivors spent two hours in water An early morning accident which occurred at the Moruka River mouth yesterday resulted in the death of an 11-year-old boy.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has launched an investigation into Sunday afternoon’s near miss involving a LIAT aircraft which was inbound to the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport (CJIA), Timehri and a Learjet which had minutes earlier departed the airport for Jamaica.

Roy McCoy, who was injured in the motorcycle crash that killed two persons on the Essequibo Coast on Saturday is to be transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital today to undergo a head scan.

Acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma in his 2007 report has raised concerns about 21 contracts that were awarded for the construction of Amerindian Village Offices without proper adherence to Tender Board procedures.

The Lancaster/Liverpool/ Manchester Library recently paid tribute to 10 children for their reading abilities as part of the National Library’s centenary celebrations.

The Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) will be meeting residents of Santa Rosa in the Moruka district on Saturday, July 11.

Leaders and residents of Region 10 have pledged to host several mini-consultations on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and a forum at Muritaro saw questions about the diversification of the economy of communities that opt in.

Friday’s scheduled meeting of the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Economic Services to discuss the “proposed areas of concern for the Commissioner of Insurance” was postponed because members of the committee had not been provided with the requisite documents however the press was not notified of the change.

The University of Guyana and UNICEF have collaborated on the setting up of a documentation centre which gives students and interested persons the tools to track the progress of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as it relates to women and children.

Plans are underway for a grand reunion of Queen’s College alumni in the last week of October.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The Libyan government had  invested $500 million of its cash reserves with accused  swindler Allen Stanford’s firm as of late 2008, a court filing  showed yesterday.