Guyana News

NEW YORK (Reuters) – US intelligence officials and top academics last week debated the risk China could wield its massive US debt holdings as a weapon aimed at influencing US foreign policy, according to a person who attended the meeting.

Ramon Gaskin has approached the Full Court seeking orders to have the Synergy contract quashed a few days after acting Chief Justice Ian Chang denied the application.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to win final approval of a historic financial regulatory reform bill looked more complicated yesterday after a Republican senator threatened to oppose it.

Opposition leader Robert Corbin yesterday said he is not interested in contesting the 2011 general elections as the presidential candidate for an opposition alliance or for the PNCR.

Verging on three weeks after the police shooting to death of schoolboy Kelvin Fraser highlighted security concerns at the Patentia Secondary School, a guard is still to be provided.

The results of a recent audit undertaken by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) could see a new carrier flying in, to serve the Toronto route.

-pornography, prostitution rampantSexual abuse by teachers, parents and guardians and other adults has been identified as the major cause of growing incidents of inappropriate behaviour by school-age children and Linden leaders are fighting to address it as well as a range of social ills plaguing the community.

Caribbean territories are examining sustainable management of the region’s dolphins and flying fish, which are both under threat due to over-fishing.

Concerned over a recent spate of abuses allegedly committed by members of the Guyana Police Force, the Executive of the Police Association has been visiting stations across the country to sensitise ranks about their conduct and responsibilities.

-loss of confidence cited Members of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) at their last meeting expressed the view that the board’s treasurer should stand down as it appeared that he had lost the confidence of members in handling its financial affairs.

Two Brazilian miners were shot on Thursday morning after telling a man that they had no job to give him.

A major part of the two-day fifth Annual Pan Caribbean Business Coalition (PCBC) Forum on HIV/AIDS was centred on what assistance insurance companies in the region could be given to better assist persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and in the end it was concluded that more data is needed to better assist the companies.

-police outreach hearsPolice have continued their outreach visits in West Berbice and recently met with residents between Tempee and Number 28 Village who said marijuana trafficking is “destroying” the youths in the area.

Disease control and other related functions are practically non-existent at Guyana’s border with Brazil, where the Port Health Authority (PHA) office remains mostly closed.

-were not contacted about complaints University of Guyana student Ganesh Mahipaul says he and other students who accused lecturer Evan Radhay Persaud of victimisation were not approached by the committee set up to probe the complaints and he referred to its findings as “compromised.”

Ravi Ramlall, the businessman who was shot by a lone gunman early Thursday morning, said yesterday he was baffled about the motive of the attack.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her charged with indecent assault.

Deochand Bikhari, 42, of Cumberland East Canje was yesterday fined $25,000 for dangerous driving, after he pleaded guilty before Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

An East Canje garbage-man who allegedly exhumed the body of a dead woman in March was yesterday fined $40,000 or an alternative of six months in jail, after he pleaded guilty to the charge of exhuming a corpse.

The preliminary inquiry in the witness tampering charges against Ravi Mangar and Mark Reid commenced yesterday before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond.