Guyana News

Guyanese have no need to be concerned following the discovery of one case of the H1N1 flu in Cuba as that country is one that would take stringent precautions to ensure that the virus is contained, Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said.

Two gun-toting bandits robbed six men at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara (ECD) late Tuesday night after reportedly committing the same act on a family at their home.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The H1N1 flu virus is  making fewer people in Mexico sick and will likely cause no  more than 100 deaths in the country, Health Minister Jose Angel  Cordova said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security  Council yesterday voiced grave concern for the first time  over civilian deaths in Sri Lanka’s war and demanded that the  army and rebels take urgent action to protect civilians.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Waterboarding and other  harsh interrogation methods used during the Bush administration  on terrorism suspects produced unreliable evidence and were  ineffective, a former FBI agent told Congress yesterday.

Keith Mitchell, who died shortly after being shot in the left thigh by a policeman last Friday, was chased on foot by two ranks to the empty lot in Anira Street where the incident occurred.

The money from the sale of government’s 20 percent stake in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company will be utilized to develop the information communication technology (ICT) sector, says President Bharrat Jagdeo.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The ruling Congress-led  coalition was slightly ahead of the opposition Hindu-nationalist  alliance as voting ended in India’s general election but both  fell short of a parliamentary majority, TV projections said.

Guyana will by the end of August this year make its full submission to the United Nations on its entitlement to extend its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, pursuant to Article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Massachusetts approved the  toughest statewide restaurant menu labeling rules in the United  States yesterday, requiring major chain restaurants to  display the calorie content of the food they sell.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Europe has squandered the  opportunity created by the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago  for a new era of cooperation between East and West, former  Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said yesterday.

The Ministry of Housing and Water is set to establish a housing scheme for 200 low-income families in the hinterland under the second Low-Income Settlement (LIS) Programme.

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee condemned the current plague of gun crimes in the country and what he called a developing gun culture among criminals, as he inked an agreement with the United States yesterday to make the tracing of illegal firearms easier.

-cocaine found in nine suitcases Four Canadian nationals were arrested at approximately 4.40 am yesterday after 9 kilogrammes, 89 gramnes of cocaine was found concealed behind false walls in nine suitcases.

CGX won’t be drilling for oil until sometime next year – dashing hopes among Guyanese for an early commercial find in the supposedly lucrative Corentyne Basin.

An 18-year-old woman accused of causing the death of Walter Wilson by dangerous driving was yesterday not required to plead to the indictable charge when it was read to her by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

-problems, education under scrutiny A two-day Nursing Summit, organized by the Nursing Department of the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Guyana Nurses Associa-tion, commenced yesterday at the Ocean View Convention Centre.

A Jamaican national was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment and a $2M fine for narcotics trafficking by Magistrate Hazel-Octive Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The man suspected to have stabbed Patricia Rose, the security guard who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Saturday, was arrested by police yesterday.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – A leading virologist has  described the new H1N1 influenza virus as “very unstable”,  meaning it could mix and swap genetic material when exposed to  other viruses.