Guyana News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A US soldier shot dead five fellow soldiers at a military clinic in Baghdad yesterday in an incident that the top US military officer suggested may have been triggered by stress.

Twenty-six women who lost their husbands to crime or disasters are being assisted by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in collaboration with Food for the Poor Guyana Incorporated to construct homes and relocate to new areas.

The final batch of patients who sought eye care in Cuba returned to Guyana last week as the Guyana/Cuba ‘Mission Miracle’ programme ended.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Nearly 50 teenagers were admitted to hospital after a suspected mass poisoning at an Afghan girls’ school, a doctor said yesterday, in the second such incident in a month.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – US-born journalist Roxana Saberi walked free yesterday after an Iranian appeals court cut her eight-year jail sentence for spying to a suspended two-year term.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised yesterday for politicians’ expenses, which included claims for dog food and light bulbs, in a bid to staunch a damaging parliamentary scandal.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) said patients have been relocated from the Surgical Block to facilitate ongoing construction on the new in-patient facility.

-plans to do other cemeteries Members of the Muslim community have decided to embark on a project to clear a section of Le Repentir cemetery.

-major probes still at standstill The police in collaboration with members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday conducted a number of roadblock exercises in A Field Sophia and on the lower East Coast in search of illegal weapons, drugs and criminals.

An American woman who had heroin in condoms concealed in her privates pleaded guilty on Friday to the charge of trafficking in narcotics when it was read to her by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police recovered a .38 revolver and arrested three bandits who robbed the owner of Dutchie’s Restaurant & Bar at Corriverton, Berbice and four customers of about $300,000 in cash and jewellery at around 7:45 pm on Saturday.

-driver flees Walter Gerald Wilson, who was struck by a car while walking home from a relative’s Queh-queh (pre-nuptial ceremony) on Saturday night, died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Gunmen on Saturday robbed a businessman of jewellery worth $6M and money while he was making a purchase at a Saffon Street store.

The Joint Services yesterday located and destroyed seven ganja farms at Hauraruni Creek in the Demerara River.

Relatives of Mahaiswerie Shiwcharran, who passed away at the Georgetown Public Hospital on April 28 following an accident earlier in the month, are calling on the authorities to ensure that justice prevails.

An outspoken St Rose’s High School team on Thursday won the opening encounter of the third annual Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speech Competition sponsored by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI).

A game of cricket on Saturday afternoon ended tragically for some boys in Perseverance, Essequibo when one of them ran onto the roadway to retrieve the ball and was struck down by a car.

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) CEO Bharat Dindyal says the foundation for the new Kingston power plant is now 70% complete as work moves apace to start operations by the third quarter of the year.

A man who allegedly accompanied another to break and enter Lizzie’s Snackette and steal a quantity of pastries and a case of drinks was granted bail last week when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 40-year-old labourer last week pleaded not guilty to the charge of simple larceny when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.