Guyana News

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.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing yesterday cancelled a meeting with a Norwegian minister as Chinese officials bristled over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz completed their second straight win over Trinidad and Tobago, edging them 1-0 in a competitive affair at the National Stadium here Sunday night.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud commissioned a $3 million tarmac for farmers at West Watooka, Linden on Saturday to boost the sale of farm produce.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A convoy of suspected drug hitmen ambushed a group of traffic police patrolling a Mexican highway yesterday, killing eight officers in the latest strike against security forces.

Even as Cabinet has given the green light for $64m in revetment works to be undertaken in the vicinity of the Craig, East Bank Demerea foreshore, experts predict that river flooding there may be far from being solved.

A 22-year-old pregnant Guya-nese woman was found burnt to death in her car in Queens, New York on Saturday.

`My life is an open book. I don’t do crime, I don’t do drugs.