Oluatoyin Alleyne

A 17-year-old girl was yesterday morning stabbed several times by her ex-boyfriend and is now in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Twenty-one-year-old Rorhema Dookie, who was kidnapped on Wednesday night, was last evening reunited with her family after she was pulled out of a house in the city by a woman who thought she may have been the girlfriend of one of her kidnappers.

-have video tape of green paint on broken boat Relatives of the two men who died in the Essequibo River accident on August 11 which also left a 10-year-old boy missing  are convinced that foul play was involved and one of them has a video tape of green paint on the shattered boat  which could lead back to the coast guard.

A post-mortem examination on 24-year-old Dweive Kant Ramdass who was dumped in the Essequibo River on Thursday showed that he died of asphyxiation – consistent with the confessions of members of the coast guard who robbed him of $17M.

The conviction of flamboyant US attorney Robert Simels yesterday led to renewed calls by the opposition for an independent probe into the government’s alleged connection to his ex-client, confessed drug kingpin Roger Khan whose phantom squad is said to have carried out a murderous campaign here over a four-year period.

In another three months tests for the H1N1 (swine flu) virus will be done at the National Public Health Institute laboratory through a collaborative effort with the Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO).

By Oluatoyin Alleyne It came as no big surprise when just before 11 pm on Saturday 19-year-old Jenel Cox was crowned Miss Guyana Universe 2009 at the National Cultural Centre,  eclipsing 14 other young women vying for the coveted crown.

–officials urge health ministry to actFour deaths and several sick people have led to officials in Region One (Barima/Waini) calling for urgent assistance from the Ministry of Health and a team is to visit the area shortly.

-outcome to be challenged Amid chaotic scenes yesterday, Volda Lawrence was elected Chairman of the PNCR’s Georgetown District trouncing incumbent Aubrey Norton by 220 votes to 96 but last night persons close to the Norton camp were charging that the process had been hijacked and would be challenged within the party.

– PM inconclusive because of decomposition `Is just mommy I had and now she gone…’ A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Shira Khan, which was found in a trench a short distance from her Unity, Mahaica home, was inconclusive because of the advanced decomposition of the body.

-signs point to murder The body found at the back of the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri, on Tuesday has been identified as that of a missing Campbellville man, who, according to relatives, was brutally murdered.

Clifton Wong was a father with a difference who never waited to be treated on Father’s Day.

– bought knives on Saturday The Vreed-en-Hoop man, who slashed his former reputed wife to death on Tuesday before turning the knife on himself and ingesting a poisonous substance, died early yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and reports are that he carefully planned the event.

-spurned lover critical after taking poison A 26-year-old woman was slashed to death yesterday allegedly by the man she once shared a common-law relationship with and who is now in a critical condition after stabbing himself and drinking poison.

There are some people who just ooze style and class and designer Patricia Coates is one.

-attendant in custody, watchman disappears The $119 million contract for the installation of two new pumps at Canal No.

– song up for CSI Miami theme Just as she said she would, not so many years ago, Guyanese singer Timeka Marshall is working hard at her career and she could gain international recognition shortly if her song is selected as the theme for next season’s CSI Miami.

Thirty-nine -year-old Redwin Europe was stabbed to death on Saturday evening by a man with whom he had an argument over $500 at the Wales Community Centre.

-Car ran into parked trailer A Linden trip ended tragically early yesterday morning when a car transporting six persons slammed into a parked motor lorry on the Linden Highway killing four of its occupants.

…federation can’t ‘wait indefinitely’ President of FITUG, Carvil Duncan yesterday preached a different kind of trade union unity, urging workers who fall under the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) to join FITUG now, as there might come a time when this was no longer possible since the federation would not “wait indefinitely”.