Guyana News

The PNCR has accused the government of being content with a reputation for violating the rights of citizens and taking an inordinate length of time to investigate infractions by the security forces.

A 14-year-old was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital early yesterday morning after being chopped on the left hand.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Security personnel defused a  homemade bomb found on an aircraft during a domestic flight in  Iran late yesterday, Iranian media said, two days after a  mosque bombing killed 25 people in the country’s southeast.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz  Inacio Lula da Silva’s approval rating bounced back in May to  nearly all-time highs as confidence grew in measures to stoke  growth in Latin America’s largest economy, a new poll showed.

A post-mortem examination performed Friday on the three persons who perished in the boat mishap in the Abary Creek on Wednesday revealed that they died as a result of asphyxiation due to drowning.

Three armed robbers attacked a businessman and his son on Saturday night on the East Coast of Demerara.

ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio  Berlusconi did not have sex with a teenage girl at the centre of  a sex scandal that has wrecked Berlusconi’s marriage, the girl’s  ex-boyfriend said. 

An RK’s security guard on Friday pleaded guilty to the charge of simple larceny when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez had promised a four-day marathon edition of his widely  watched weekly television talkshow, but unspecified technical  problems threw the plans awry this weekend.

With major questions still to be answered about the Lindo Creek killings, visitors to the camp last week were shocked to find what appeared to be human bones at the site, almost certainly some of the remains of the eight miners who were brutally murdered there in June last year.

-Best The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will be constructing an improved weapons storage facility, Chief of Staff Commodore Gary Best says, while emphasizing that the force is not letting up on its hunt for weapons which went missing from its arsenal three years ago.

Accusing the governing party of attempting to “subvert” the local government reform process, PNCR leader Robert Corbin on Friday said up to the time of his recent illness no attempt was made to begin consultations on legislative reforms for the holding of polls later this year.

The spate of fatal accidents in Berbice continued yesterday when a teenager and a man were killed by a car that was reported to have been speeding at the time.

The army has sent two of its helicopter pilots for training overseas to equip them with the necessary skills to use the night sun.

Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is scheduled to be launched on June 8 and last Friday President Bharrat Jagdeo met with government representatives, NGOs, and Norwegian Government representatives  and their local counterparts to finalize the preparations.

Blaming a culture of incompetence and mismanagement for the loss for the six million euros for the sugar industry, the People National Congress Reform on Friday called for firm action to be taken against the individuals and organisations responsible for the budgetary loss.

-Manickchand Saying the reformed sexual offences law is a “done deal,” Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand on Friday called on groups campaigning for the swift implementation of the legislation to channel their efforts sensibly.

-Ambassador Ishmael Guyana’s Ambassador to Venezuela Odeen Ishmael says that during this year remittances to Latin American and Caribbean countries from the more developed countries will decline by US$4B from last year’s figure.

Albert Raymond Forbes Webber, a long forgotten politician, journalist, poet and novelist, was resurrected for a new generation of Guyanese at Castellani House, last Thursday evening.

Director of the Child Protection Agency, Ann Greene, said a fair amount of work had begun since legislation was enacted setting up her office earlier this year, including the initial launch of a local foster care programme, which she referred to as “extremely important in shaping the lives of those young ones in need of nurturing.”