Guyana News

The suspect wanted in connection with the early Friday morning murder of Gertrude Edwards at Ithaca, West Berbice, was captured yesterday in a cane field at Lochaber, West Canje.

A 54-year-old man, who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a female without her consent while she was under the age of 16 and who allegedly raped the same girl when she was over that age, was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

In the face of the continued and significant challenges posed by crime in the region, Caribbean police chiefs yesterday began a week-long meeting aimed at finding new strategies to combat the scourge.

Three members of the John family, who were allegedly assaulted by police ranks during a raid at their Agricola home last Saturday, have been charged with unlawfully assaulting a peace officer, behaving disorderly and obstructing a police officer.

For the tenth year, Ansa McAl presented mothers who gave birth to babies on Mothers Day with Cheekies Cloth Soft hampers.

The partially decomposed body of an Albouystown man was discovered yesterday afternoon in a trench at the northern end of Le Repentir Cemetery.

Three men, including a 15-year-old, appeared at the Wales Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the murder of a Canal Number Two grandmother, who asphyxiated when she was gagged during a robbery.

Magistrate Chandra Sohan, sitting at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, yesterday committed a labourer of Alness, Corentyne to stand trial at the next sitting at the Berbice High Court for the 2005 rape of a 13-year-old female.

The Hydrometeorological Service and staff from the National Communications Network (NCN) will soon be providing modern weather forecast to the Guyanese public, through support from the UK’s Meteorological Office’s Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP).

The police early yesterday morning arrested a Jamaican woman at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport after 2.272 kilos of cocaine was found concealed in her suitcase.

In a bid to improve mining practices, a $25M project is set to begin next month which will see miners in different districts exposed to dry-mining and tailings’ management methods.

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.

Dr Claude Denbow on Saturday launched the second edition of his book Life Insurance Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean at the Pegasus Hotel.

Howard Willis, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier, who allegedly accidentally shot himself earlier this month, is recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Environmental Com-munity Health Organisation (ECHO) in collaboration with PAHO/WHO and the Ministry of Education yesterday launched the ‘Schools in Action against Climate Change’ project at the St Margaret’s Primary School.

Three contracts were signed last Friday amounting to more than $167M by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and the respective contractors at the Ministry of Agriculture.

– Persaud Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said government intends “to reallocate a part of the concession held by UNAMCO to community forestry organisations in Region Ten,” in an effort “to meet the socio-economic needs” of the region’s residents.

Head of the Domestic Violence Policy Unit of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSSS) Geetanjali Geer has pleaded with female trades unionists not to turn a blind eye to domestic violence.

An 11-year-old boy of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam was picked up by the Department of Education in Region Six last Wednesday after he stayed home from school to care for his three-year-old brother.

COLOMBO (Reuters) — The United Nations yesterday said attacks in Sri Lanka that killed hundreds were the bloodbath it had long feared, while the Tamil Tigers and government traded blame ahead of UN Security Council talks about the war.