Guyana News

A vagrant, who reportedly entered a yard at the corner of Leopold and High streets, Werk-en-Rust, without the owner of the property’s permission, was severely bitten by a pit bull which was in the yard at the time.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that a father of three, who allegedly robbed another man at gunpoint of a quantity of cash among other items, totalling $1.2M, be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Rice producing areas in Region Five (Mahaica/Abary/West Berbice) lost almost of a third of the first (spring) rice crop to heavy rainfall earlier this year.

BARCELONA/LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon’s President Omar Bongo, Africa’s longest-serving leader, died yesterday of a heart attack in a Spanish clinic after more than four decades of tight control over the central African oil-producing nation.

The main opposition party is calling on the government to state the terms and conditions under which Russian bauxite giant United Company (UC) RUSAL acquired the operations of the Aroaima Mining Company (AMC).

Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali updated residents of several communities in Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) recently about progress in providing then with potable water under the Hinterland Water Strategy programme.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea yesterday raised the stakes in its confrontation with Washington by sentencing two American journalists to 12 years hard labor for “grave crimes” while US President Barack Obama’s spokesman said the two were innocent and should be freed.

Amerindian leaders were urged to examine the issue of good governance in their communities and to practise inclusiveness as it is vital to development.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown survived a challenge to his authority yesterday, winning over Labour members of parliament after admitting mistakes and taking responsibility for a week of political turmoil.

The Guyana Justices of the Peace (JP) Association elected a new executive when it launched its Essequibo Chapter at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court on May 30.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Pope Benedict was very upset by revelations that priests and nuns had beaten and raped children for many years in Irish industrial schools, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin said yesterday.

YALA, Thailand (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 12 others when they opened fire with automatic weapons at a mosque during evening prayers in Thailand’s restive Muslim south, police said yesterday.

Fifteen women from Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara last Thursday received certificates after completing a skills training programme in floral arrangements at a graduation ceremony.

The Trinidad Sunday Express yesterday reported that forensic investigator Robert Lindquist has uncovered what is being described as an elaborate scheme within the CL Financial Group, where annuities, with attractive returns, were being sold by CLICO but that customers’ monies were being funnelled for ghost services to the group.

The mother of twenty-year-old Gavin Paul, who was fatally shot after he snatched a chain from a woman on Saturday, says the shooter should be charged.

“Barbados has opened some doors for me to live so much better than I used to in Guyana” – Guyanese woman living in Barbados as a skilled CARICOM national Apart from the hundreds of Guyanese bound to be affected by the new immigration policy which the government in Barbados  has introduced, there are also others who have lived in the sister state for many years mostly unaffected by prejudices.

-includes info from Kadir’s computers Information from two computers seized from the home of Guyanese Abdul Kadir and other documentation are among the evidence the prosecution will present when the conspiracy to blow up the JFK International Airport case starts.

A 22-year-old Guyana Defence Force soldier was admitted to the Male Surgical ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday afternoon nursing a stab wound which was inflicted by his partner.

A man is in police custody after law enforcement officials found a live grenade in his Meten-meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara home on Saturday.

Gallons of fuel, suspected to be diesel, flowed through the drains located near to America and Longden streets yesterday morning as persons nearby helped themselves by filling buckets, drums and small containers.