Guyana News

RECIFE, Brazil/PARIS (Reuters) – Brazilian search  crews yesterday retrieved the first bodies from a crashed Air  France plane in the Atlantic and air investigators said faulty  speed readings had been detected on the same type of jets.

CAIRO (Reuters) – A leader of an Islamist group that  waged an insurgency in Egypt in the 1990s called on Saturday for  al Qaeda and the Taliban to consider an opening offered by the  US president and call a halt to attacks on US civilians.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The death toll from a fire  at a day-care centre in northern Mexico rose to 35 children  with at leas t 40 more hospitalized, many with life-threatening  burns, Mexican authorities said yesterday.

YURIMAGUAS, Peru (Reuters) – Indigenous protesters  and Peru’s army refused to back down and a truce looked distant  yesterday, after two battles in the Amazon jungle killed some  50 people in the worst crisis of President Alan Garcia’s term.

BANGKOK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The family of David Carradine has asked US authorities to help unravel the  mystery of his death, amid conflicting reports about how his  body was found hanging naked in a Bangkok hotel.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation yesterday signed a US$12M ($2.4B) contract with an Indian firm to upgrade the Enmore factory for packaged sugar within the next year in an effort to reduce the dependence on bulk sugar exports.

-prosecutions drop sharply There has been a marked decrease in the number of prosecutions for smuggling of illegal fuel in recent times and the  Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) says it has been finding fewer samples of illegal fuel.

Backer: ‘The facts are incontrovertible’ Authorities do not have to await disclosures by the US about Roger Khan to investigate his criminal activities in Guyana, including his links to government, the main opposition said yesterday.

-Bail refused By Ayanna Blair After eight weeks and over ten hearings in the Preliminary Inquiry into the alleged rape of a 19-year-old girl, Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ruled that a prima facie case had been made out against Colin Mack and he should be tried in the High Court.

The post-mortem examination on Fazal Hoosain, the Number 69 Village businessman found dead in the Corentyne River, will be conducted today pending information from the Surinamese police.

The quality of used tyres imported into Guyana has improved over the years and while a ban is being considered, the Ministry of Commerce will be meeting importers of new tyres shortly to determine whether these could be retailed at a cheaper price.

A group of women from Red Thread and Help and Shelter on Thursday again conducted a protest in front of the Office of the President (OP), which they said will continue until they are satisfied that everything possible was being done to stop all forms of violence against children.

The Region Nine ‘One Stop Shop’ held last weekend at the Arapaima Primary School in the Rupununi  resulted in close to 300 transactions being done by housing ministry officials, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

A Public Education Forum on ‘domestic violence in Guyana’ is scheduled to commence from 4 pm today at the Georgetown City Hall.

– Mayor City Mayor Hamilton Green said yesterday the discovery of a fresh fraud at City Council must be investigated in full to weed out corrupt officers.

A 28-year-old man was shot in his left thigh at Laing Avenue last evening and was receiving medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) up to press time.

2008 bill was US$400M The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has rejoined the conservation drive and has launched its own campaign to promote energy saving and awareness.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Thursday met with residents and Community Policing Groups (CPGs) in Leguan, Wakenaam, Hog and Fort islands to listen to concerns affecting their livelihoods and called for more policing groups.

–unions up in arms, company says they were fully informed The modernization of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) bottling plant has left 19 persons jobless from June 1, prompting action by the unions who said that they were caught by surprise.

Personnel attached to the Guyana Defence Force benefited from a two-day Mass Casualty Scenario training course which was conducted by a visiting United States military team.