Guyana News

– education, home ministries also launch probes Officers of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) clearly breached the written protocols in their handling of the case involving murdered teenager Neesa Lalita Gopaul, according to Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said about 150 Clico policyholders have retrieved their assets in full since the start of the rescue plan outlined by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

A Lodge family last night escaped unharmed from a fire which gutted their lower flat after reportedly being started by a toddler.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) has condemned the brutal murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul and is urging investigators to be steadfast in their efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Cabinet has cleared three contracts in the security, public works and water sectors including one for a revetment at Craig on the East Bank which has been threatened by flooding emanating from the Demerara River.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama killed  proposed legislation yesterday that had attracted growing  political rage over how banks have moved to evict struggling  borrowers from their homes.

–to approach director of culture on plan Mayor Hamilton Green and the central government have found common ground on the way forward to raise some $400 million to restore the deteriorating buildings of the historic City Hall complex.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African Nobel Peace  Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who used his church pulpit as a  platform to help bring down apartheid, officially retired from  public duties yesterday.

The Office of the President (OP) has begun advertising for ICT trainers to fill positions on the US$30 million One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project as the government aims for a year-end roll out, which will see the instruments eventually given to some 90,000 families.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Peruvian writer and one-time  presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, a chronicler of  human struggles against authoritarianism in Latin America, won  the 2010 Nobel prize for literature yesterday.

Three men including an ex-immigration officer charged with forgery of immigration stamps were yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $250,000 each when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

GYOR, Hungary, (Reuters) – Toxic red sludge from a  Hungarian alumina plant reached the Danube yesterday and crews  struggled to dilute it to protect the river from what the prime  minister called an “unprecedented ecological catastrophe”.

`These initiatives have had limited, if any, success, however, because they have been prepared and executed in isolation from other policies.

BISSAU, (Reuters) – Guinea Bissau has reinstated Bubo  Na Tchuto, accused by Washington of being a narcotics kingpin,  as head of the west African state’s navy, according to an  official statement read on state radio.

More workers attached to the Wales Estate of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) have joined their colleagues in the land preparation section of the estate who are on strike over a change in their job description.

A 27-year-old woman slapped with four charges of cannabis possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters Life!) – Airline passenger Deborah  Sigmund noticed something strange about the man and boy who ran  up late to catch a US Airways flight last December from  Washington to Palm Beach, Florida.

Fifty more Women of Worth (WOW) recipients received cheques from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) to pursue their economic ventures.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of people in  poor countries suffer from untreated mental health disorders  that could be helped with inexpensive care, the World Health  Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

A scheduled meeting between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) with the Labour Ministry yesterday failed to materialize after the Chief Labour Officer failed to show, the union says.