Guyana News

The reported visit of a UK expert to train drug trafficker Roger Khan in the use of sophisticated spy equipment provides another lead for law enforcement to follow with a view to uncovering details of his operations here.

While the Joint Services have maintained a stony silence on the March allegations of torture, the memories are still fresh for a young Wakenaam resident.

Mining activities are on the verge of recommencing at Lindo Creek as a team of miners was spotted headed for the location complete with equipment and supplies earlier this week.

Even as reports increase about Guyanese being sent home from Barbados as part of that island’s efforts to clamp down on undocumented Caricom nationals, there has been no report of “earth shattering” numbers returning home.

Clifton Wong was a father with a difference who never waited to be treated on Father’s Day.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Egypt’s players returned from their shock Confederations Cup win over world champions Italy to find some of their hotel rooms had been burgled, South African police said yesterday.

The Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited (GTICL) building is up for sale as liquidator Nizam Ali and Company presses ahead with recovering funds from the bankrupt institution.

Puran Brothers Waste Disposal Company was on Wednesday awarded a contract to construct an access road to Le Repentir dumpsite, as well as to provide covers and gas vents to this site, as attempts are being made to close it.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has set up an intelligence and risk management unit to monitor the flow of information it receives from the public on tax evasion, among other issues as part of a new practical strategy.

– former committee members The implementation of agreed constitutional reforms is limping along after almost a decade, raising questions about the sincerity of the political commitment to the process.

Jamaica is the first member state in Caricom to benefit from three special microscopes (colposcopes) donated by the Government of Spain to boost capacity to detect early signs of cervical cancer.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said that some test results are in for the HINI flu virus and five of the 14 specimens sent abroad have tested negative.

Police discovered the skeletal remains of what is suspected to be a young person at Maikwak, Upper Potaro yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government is seeking a US$9.4M loan from Venezuela for the wiring of 6,000 homes and the construction of 307 distribution lines island-wide.

EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take  pictures in Tehran.

In condemning the vicious murders of three women within the past week the PNCR said that domestic violence continues unchecked, and is calling on government to step up its efforts in tackling the problem.

Professor Vinay Lal, lecturer in the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is scheduled to deliver a lecture titled “The West’s Gandhi and Gandhi’s West” tomorrow at        1 pm in the Education Lecture Theatre at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece inaugurated its  long-delayed Acropolis Museum yesterday with the prime  minister calling for the Classical Parthenon marbles, held in  Britain for 200 years, to be repatriated.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s cabinet declared a  state of emergency yesterday and the parliament speaker asked  neighbouring countries to send troops to help the government  within the next 24 hours as fighting intensified in the capital.

“Final studies” on the Amaila Falls Hydropower project should be completed by August and will determine whether the company that currently holds a licence to develop the venture will go ahead with it.