News

The family of 21-year-old Kevon McKenzie, whose body was found under the broken bricks of a collapsed wall on Sunday evening, believes that there is much more to his death than has been reported.

The Guyana Police Force commenced its annual youth camp on Sunday under the theme ‘Develop-ing youths through community projects, discipline and teamwork,’ with the aim of grooming the over 100 young participants into becoming patriotic individuals.

Javid Safee, who was caught carrying over five pounds of marijuana after the strong smell of the narcotic tipped off the policeman sitting next to him in a minibus, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail for drug trafficking.

A 31-year-old man drove himself to a city hospital early yesterday morning after he was shot and robbed of $30,000 by three armed men.

An Ankerville, Port Mourant, Berbice woman is now scared to live in the area after she was robbed and beaten by two men.

After being chopped by a fellow worker at a mining camp, a hospitalised miner is now seeking help to contact his family.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) is set for the grand opening of the 12th annual Berbice Expo and Trade Fair tomorrow.

Tenders were opened on Tuesday for the construction of an access road to a site on the highway, which will house derelict vehicles among other projects.

Three medical personnel from the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) will be heading to Argentina on August 23 to partake in capacity building exercises focused on Quality Management and Control in the area of blood banking.

Science students from the University of Guyana and Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas were afforded an opportunity to learn about enhancing capacities to support the oil and gas sector.

In recognition of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples which was celebrated on August 9, Food for the Poor (Guyana) Inc (FFP) donated a wide variety of clothing and bed sheets to the Amerindian Hostel.

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales opened a military school yesterday which he said would teach an “anti-imperialist” doctrine to counter US policies “based on fear.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is looking at whether Russia has violated a UN Security Council resolution on military dealings with Tehran by using an Iranian air base to carry out strikes inside Syria, the State Department said yesterday.

SEOUL (Reuters) –  North Korea’s deputy ambassador in London has defected with his family to South Korea, making him the highest-ranking Pyong-yang diplomat ever to flee the isolated regime for the democratic South, South  Korea said yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Observer) – GraceKennedy Limited has announced the recall of batches of its curry products that were packaged in the United States and distributed within the US, Bermuda and the Bahamas.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) –  Turkey began freeing 38,000 prisoners yesterday, after announcing a penal reform that will make space for tens of thousands of suspects rounded up over last month’s attempted coup.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba on Tuesday published policy guidelines for the next five years that signal no new domestic initiatives although it upgraded foreign investment to “fundamental in certain sectors.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti has identified its first case of the birth defect microcephaly linked to the Zika virus, a senior health ministry official said on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain today launched a strategy aimed at curbing childhood obesity by taxing companies which sell sugar-laced soft drinks and investing that money in programmes to encourage physical activity and balanced diets for school children.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson stormed to victory in the women’s Olympic 200 metres final with a time of 21.78 seconds on Wednesday to complete the Games sprint double.