Guyana News

The Linden Electricity Company Inc (LECI) is calling on residents and businesses across Linden to maximize the use of energy saving bulbs to reduce the amount of electricity being consumed.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The United States yesterday condemned violence against protesters in Honduras and called for President Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement as the Central American country faced growing isolation over last week’s coup.

A 39 year-old mother of one was on Friday placed on $25,000 bail when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of assault.

-pillion riders in hospital The deaths of two motorcyclists in an accident on the Essequibo Coast late Saturday has left the area in shock even as two other persons remain hospitalized at the Suddie Hospital.

Relative: ‘… they tried to finish her off’ Attackers changed bloodied clothing in store Dhanwantie Phulchand, a proprietor in the City Mall who was robbed, chopped and battered on Saturday afternoon, was in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday.

Despite a warning by former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson that they needed to do something urgently about implementing decision, Caricom Heads meeting in Georgetown last week are still to take a concrete decision The communiqué issued late Saturday night contained just one sentence on governance.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne It came as no big surprise when just before 11 pm on Saturday 19-year-old Jenel Cox was crowned Miss Guyana Universe 2009 at the National Cultural Centre,  eclipsing 14 other young women vying for the coveted crown.

-so ‘I can work to support my family’ Money launderer Sabrina Budhram, who earlier this year began serving her year-and-a-day sentence, is asking Judge Edward Korman to place her in a halfway house for the remainder of her sentence so that “I can work to support my family.”

An Air Services aircraft ferrying Caricom delegates, who were in Guyana for the Heads of Government Conference, from Kaieteur Falls to Ogle made an emergency landing on Saturday afternoon at the Baganara Island airstrip after one of the aircraft’s engines failed.

Residents of Mackenzie, Linden are being furnished with a new format electricity bill which would include arrears data as the Linden Electricity Company Inc (LECI) seeks to regularize its system and improve its customer service unit.

The University of Guyana (UG) came in for intense scrutiny on Friday at a Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) forum with head of the private sector, Gerry Gouveia deploring conditions on campus and calling for the institution to be run like a business.

Consequent upon their decision to absorb the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) into the Caricom Secretariat, Caricom Heads meeting in Georgetown last week have named Ambassador Gail Mathurin to head up the new body.

A 21-year-old miner died shortly after a sandbank in the Mazaruni area collapsed last Friday burying him in the pit where he had been working.

A $119M pump was commissioned on Friday at Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara by Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud.

“She was treated like a criminal,” a Guyanese mother said yesterday as she related the “terrible treatment” her daughter was subjected to by immigration officials last week.

Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma and Dr Steve Surujbally, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have pledged to maintain the cordial and working relationships between the Commonwealth Secretariat and GECOM towards enhancing the efficient conduct of electoral processes in Guyana and by extension the other Commonwealth member states.

The 19-year-old woman, who sustained knife wounds to her right lower abdomen, is in a stable condition.

A 35-year-old woman was slashed on one side of her face last evening after she told her boyfriend that she wanted to end their relationship.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Ousted Honduran President  Manuel Zelaya turned back from an attempted return home yesterday after soldiers clashed with his supporters as he tried  to land, fuelling tensions over the coup that toppled him.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Felipe  Calderon’s National Action Party was headed for defeat at  mid-term elections for Congress yesterday, according to an exit  poll broadcast by the Televisa network.