Guyana News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US poverty rate rose to 14.3 per cent in 2009 from 13.2 per cent the year before, bringing the percentage of the population living in poverty to the highest level since 1994, as the economic downturn took its toll on jobs, the government said yesterday.

A woman accused of having a quantity of cannabis in her 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.

QUITO (Reuters) – Former Ecuadorean leader Lucio Gutierrez says the unrest that rocked the South American country last week was a “media show” cooked up by President Rafael Correa and fellow leftist Hugo Chavez.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The federal government  announced three contracts worth up to $68 million yesterday  to make three new vaccines against dengue fever and anthrax.

– Persaud The Ministry of Agriculture told a forum on beekeeping that stakeholders must collaborate to address the problems hindering growth in this sector.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a man accused of stealing a motorcycle when he on Tuesday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

LONDON,  (Reuters Life!) – A lost flute concerto by  18th century composer and virtuoso violinist Antonio Vivaldi has  been discovered by an academic among a set of dusty papers  housed in Scotland’s National Archives in Edinburgh.

Police tonight issued bulletins for ten persons in relation to murder and the list included ex-policemen and Bramanand Nandalall who had been the subject of a major investigation by Canadian Mounties around 15 years ago and had been kidnapped at the height of the 2002-3 crime spree.

– laid to rest Murdered teenager Neesa Lalita Gopaul was yesterday laid to rest just after a post-mortem examination (PME) revealed that she had not been decapitated as previously thought.

Kelly Ann Persaud has been declared the country’s top performer at this year’s CSEC examinations a year after her sister, Kia Persaud, received the very award.

The lackadaisical child care officers who were involved in the Neesa Lalita Gopaul case will face disciplinary action once an investigation currently underway is completed, Minister of Human Services Priya Manickchand said yesterday.

Ballistic tests on spent shells have found that the same gun was used in the Broad Street and Stone Avenue shootings, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.

Minutes before Patrick Goodluck and Godfrey Grootfaam were riddled with bullets on Monday night a third man was seen in their car which was parked on Stone Avenue.

– source Four Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers were dismissed from the unit last week after they failed to turn up to work to take a mandatory polygraph test, a senior source confirmed yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo should follow the example set on Friday by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and fulfil his promise to investigate the collapse of Clico (Guyana), AFC Leader Raphael Trotman says.

An eight-month-old boy is in urgent need of a heart operation and his relatives are appealing to the general public to assist them with the finances to facilitate the child’s travel to India where the life-saving operation will be performed.

A waitress found guilty of trafficking in marijuana was on Tuesday jailed for four years and fined $2.7 million.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities deported a  record 393,000 illegal immigrants in the 2010 fiscal year that ended last month, half of whom had committed a crime,  Depart-ment of Homeland Security officials said yesterday.

The PNCR has called for a special unit in the Guyana Police Force to deal with domestic violence and for special procedures to take such reports.

NAACIE has moved to the Trade Union Re-cognition and Certification Board (TUR&CB) to file charges against the Toolsie Persaud Group of Companies for the company’s failure to enter negotiations with the union.