Guyana News

– Agri Minister The need for proper management with greater focus and the right technical expertise are issues which have to be continuously addressed at the Skeldon sugar factory.

There is no need to investigate the death of  Sandra Alli who reportedly suffered abuse at the hands of relatives, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud, after an autopsy found she died of natural causes.

-second attack on family in month Armed bandits yesterday struck at an Enmore, East Coast Demerara lumber yard and after locking five persons in a bond escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Some 30 workers of the Wales estate of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are on strike over time stipulations inserted in their job description without an agreement.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds urged the public to emulate Mahatma Gandhi by demonstrating honesty and integrity, in his address at a ceremony held on Saturday to observe International Day of Non-Violence and to commemorate Gandhi’s 142nd birth anniversary.

A group of explorers will begin journeying today into southernmost Guyana on a two-week expedition which will include the surveying of a 25-mile trail which it is hoped will improve the economy of the Wai Wai community of Masakenyari.

-parents still to be found The seven abandoned siblings who were rescued by the Child Care and Protection Unit in Linden last month are now in the care of a Linden family while there has been no word about the whereabouts of their parents.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded three Kitty residents accused of having a gun and a quantity of ammunition in their possession without licence, when they yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Hansraj Samaroo was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared in court over the murder of miner, Deochand Sirkissoon at Belmont, Mahaica.

About 250 house lots in Ordnance Fortlands, Glasgow, and Bloomfield, Region Six were allocated through the ‘One Stop Shop’ outreach held at the Rose Hall Community Centre Ground on Wednesday.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The house on the 53rd block of  South Wood Street in Chicago’s Back of the Yards doesn’t look  like a $355,000 home.

Cuban-born Dr Vilma Perez died early yesterday morning at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital following a brief period of hospitalization.

The Ministry of Home Affairs hosted its fifth outreach exercise to Community Policing Groups (CPGs) in Region Two last week to garner feedback and to address problems that might impede the functioning of the group.

KOLONTAR, Hungary,  (Reuters) – Hungary declared a  state of emergency in three counties yesterday, a day after a  torrent of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant tore through nearby villages, kill-ing four people and injuring 120.

-defends Grow More Food results The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) says it is currently undertaking studies to identify new markets and new products that have export potential beside the identified 4P’s: pepper, pumpkin, plantain and pineapple.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Many supporters of the  conservative Tea Party movement that has shaken up U.S. 

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony held discussions on a National Drama Festival and establishing a theatre school for youths with members of the entertainment sector at a meeting held on Saturday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A smirking Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York’s busy Times Square was sentenced yesterday to life in prison after  he defiantly said more attacks on America were imminent.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A Saudi prince killed his servant  in their room at a luxury London hotel in a ferocious beating  which had a sexual element, a British court was told yesterday.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Two Russian-born scientists  shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for showing how carbon  just one atom thick behaved, a discovery with profound  implications from quantum physics to consumer electronics.