Guyana News

Two armed bandits who robbed a Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara shop keeper of cash on Sunday night have been captured.

One week after garbage collectors suspended their services, there is as yet no indication of when these will be resumed, but the city is using the crisis to see if it can manage garbage collection.

– as FCPF participants meeting opens The Sixth Meeting of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Participants Committee opened here yesterday with Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud highlighting government’s concerns about process, questioning whether other countries face the same level of scrutiny as Guyana.

A 20-year-old man was remanded to prison yesterday after he appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Court charged with having carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 15.

– paddy shipments moving quickly Our rice for their oil; this is the payment scheme for the revised US$21.7 million Venezuelan deal and it means that the Government of Guyana is responsible for paying local millers.

– witnesses saw him lash miner and run off Vanburn Orlando Hanover’s murderer is still on the run and police were up to late last night on the lookout for the suspect.

Police are seeking the help of the public to recapture a convicted prisoner who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison last Monday.

– import licences to be granted if prices do not drop Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad said the ministry is monitoring rising chicken prices and if there is no reduction soon it will grant licences to import chicken.

PARIS (Reuters) – Bankers voiced relief yesterday after world leaders abandoned a global bank levy and eased the timetable for new capital requirements at a G20 summit in Canada which posed questions about the forum’s effectiveness.

The Region Three Department of Education is hosting remedial classes for grades two, three and four pupils at 33 centres across the region.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court yesterday extended gun rights to every state and city in the nation in a ruling likely to spur new challenges to gun control measures across the United States.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is hosting training sessions for its senior and chief postmasters, postmasters, postal and telegraph clerks to boost the quality of its service.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US authorities said yesterday they have broken up a spy ring that carried out deep-cover work in the United States to recruit political sources and gather information for the Russian government.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A popular gubernatorial candidate in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was murdered by suspected drug hitmen yesterday in the worst sign so far of political intimidation by smuggling gangs.

Some teachers in the Ministry of Education’s Fast Track Initiative Literacy Pro-gramme are complaining about non payment of their monthly stipend, but National Coordinator of the programme, Murphy Greenidge said he instructed that payment for some teachers be withheld as they have failed to submit monthly progress reports.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s son and handpicked heir has been elected to parliament but he will at best become a figurehead under a military-led collective leadership, news reports said today quoting a source.

Mae’s Under-12 student Sonia Ghir has topped this year’s National Grade Six Assessment.

Thirty-year-old police officer Quancy John was this morning charged with the murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Kelvin Fraser three weeks ago at Patentia, West Bank Demerara.

-several injured One person is dead and several others injured after two vehicles heading south along the Pearl Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara collided with each other and speeding was said to be a key factor.

A 33-year-old pork-knocker died after he was reportedly lashed in the head by another man on Saturday night following an argument at a Mahdia disco.