Guyana News

-burnt boy and family vanished months ago Relatives of one of the complainants in a case during which a teenage boy’s genital area was set alight by police last year, yesterday confirmed that they had accepted money to drop the matter while a relative of another complainant said that their matter was “settled”.

The decomposing remains of an unidentified man were yesterday morning discovered floating in a canal in South Sophia behind Meadow Brook Gardens with a bullet wound to the back of the head.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) will ask prospective electoral partners to back its likely presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan, after his selection is ratified at its upcoming special delegates’ conference.

Youth Leaders from the Bina Hill Youth Learning Centre organised a special “350 learning by doing” activity for 300 indigenous secondary school students.

– but ratios in education, health almost on par Guyana is listed at 38, slipping three places from its position at 35 last year, on the Global Gender Gap Index, which ranks 134 economies according to the size of the gaps between men and women.

-two suspects in custody Three bandits, armed with a gun and two cutlasses terrorized and robbed a family of St.

-to be recommended to concession owners Twenty-four members of the Small Loggers Association of Maria Elizabeth/Three Friends Mines, recently completed two weeks of intense training in forest management and wood utilization.

-more bandwidth going to security firms, call centres The introduction of GT&T’s Emagine Broadband is attracting interest from several overseas entities including universities looking to extend their online programmes to Guyana, the company’s CEO Yog Mahadeo says.

Residents of Amelia’s Ward in Linden are still complaining bitterly about the ‘water woes’ they are currently enduring.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) hosted a delegation from the First Jungle Infantry Brigade for the Sixteenth Regional Military Guyana/Brazil Conference in Lethem.

-600 persons to be trained Fourteen religious bodies on Thursday signed a joint communiqué taking a zero tolerance stand against domestic violence and pledging to partner with the social service and law enforcement agencies towards eradicating the factors which lead to the phenomenon.

-rapped over Neesa Gopaul Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Saturday urged ‘D’ Division Community Policing Groups (CPGs) to boost their membership and expand their service in the area.

Ansa McAl Trading Limited says Carib and Stag beer drinkers can win motorcycles, flat screen TVs and other prizes over the next few months as it hosts its grand year-end promotion.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and other members of the United Nations High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday for a final round of talks which were expected to identify potential sources of funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Michelle Baldeo, whose Bougainvillea Park, East Bank Demerara house was on Monday mistakenly searched by police, yesterday said that she will not be accepting an apology and would like all the damage done to her house fixed and missing items replaced.

Some 50 police, immigration officials, prosecutors and judges in Guyana are expected to participate in a trafficking in persons  training seminar to be conducted by the Organization of American States (OAS) in Georgetown tomorrow and Friday.

Cane harvesters were yesterday urged to improve their attendance at the sugar estates since there is a low supply of canes, especially at the Enmore and La Bonne Intention (LBI) estates.

A mixed jury was yesterday empanelled for the murder trial of Elroy Torres who allegedly killed Elizabeth Hutson outside a city bar in December 2005.

A man who is alleged to have had a firearm and a quantity of ammunition in his possession without licence was on Monday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

-but still lowest in Guianas The deforestation rate due to mining activities in Guyana from 2000 to 2008 increased 2.77 times according to an assessment by the World Wildlife Fund-Guianas.