Guyana News

New York police are continuing investigations into the burning to death of 22-year-old pregnant Guyanese Omadevi Megbaran-Saran called ‘Annie’ in Queens, New York last Saturday.

More wanted men were detained yesterday while police arrested three other persons for questioning about recent executions.

Sheema Mangar’s parents say that they are dissatisfied with how the police are conducting the investigation of her murder, almost a month after.

– Judge Robinson President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, Judge Patrick Robinson of Jamaica yesterday called on Caribbean governments to move in the direction of accepting the CCJ as the region’s final appellate court.

– as Unite campaign launched By Iana Seales in Barbados The Caribbean launch of the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Campaign ‘Unite to End Violence Against Women’ kicked off yesterday in Barbados amid concerns about government involvement in ending the scourge and the lack of outrage against the high levels of violence against women in the region.

A 69-year-old market vendor was assaulted and robbed by two bandits armed with a gun as she and her husband were opening their stall for business yesterday morning at the Bourda Market.

The US Embassy Humani-tarian Assistance Programme (HAP) has donated $2 million worth of education and sport supplies to three schools in the outlying communities in Region 10.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has urged the suspension of the Hope/Dochfour Canal project, saying it is short-sighted and not the best flood solution.

Pieces of a license plate were discovered at the scene of a hit-and-run which left a Plum Park, Sophia man dead yesterday morning but police were unable to determine the number.

– witness Hours before Hugh “Cullie Boy” McPherson was found dead along a Mahdia trail he was seen arguing with a man shortly after exiting a night club.

A man who allegedly snatched a woman’s chain from her neck was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

It is true that there is a lot to be learned from older folk as a recent visit to the Palms on Brickdam revealed.

A 45-year-old technician was shot twice in the thighs during a scuffle with armed bandits who invaded his Lot 139 Fourth Street, Martyrsville, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara home late Sunday night.

– in Wellington Park robbery Timothy Sampson of Adelphi Village was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo after being slapped with three charges, including the May 17 murder of security guard Arjune Gobin.

LONDON (Reuters) – A British hostage who died in Afghanistan on Friday during a US-led rescue mission may have been accidentally killed by the troops trying to save her, British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.

COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) – Rescuers successfully tested a capsule to hoist Chile’s 33 trapped miners to freedom and aim to start evacuating them tonight after a two-month ordeal that has gripped the world’s imagination.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential election, which three weeks ago looked like an easy victory march for ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff, now looks set to go down to the wire as concerns grow over her flip-flops on social issues and corruption in her inner circle.

The man whose pit bulls were said to have viciously attacked and disfigured Patrick Gordon almost two months ago was yesterday placed on $40,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magis-trates’ Court, charged with suffering his un-muzzled dogs to be at large.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Milestone man Sachin Tendulkar struck an unbeaten 191 and starred in a marathon 308-run stand with Murali Vijay to fuel India’s robust reply in the second test against Australia yesterday.

Poor response to reports of abuse, victimization of residents by police and harassment of foreigners who are not fluent in English were among the issues raised by Barticians at an outreach held by the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) over the weekend.