Guyana News

KABUL – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates cautioned against over-optimism despite “bits and pieces of good news” from Afghanistan, warning of hard days ahead as he arrived yesterday to meet generals and President Hamid Karzai.

Rodwell Warte, 47, of 3 C Meadow Brook, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with unlawfully assaulting Dianne London, his reputed wife, so as to cause her actual bodily harm.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A court in Haiti yesterday freed a US missionary jailed for weeks on charges of kidnapping children in the chaos that followed the country’s devastating January 12 earthquake, witnesses said.

JFAP Leader CN Sharma salutes women for their courage and endurance of daily struggles in order to make a difference for peace and the development in the world.

KOVANCILAR, Turkey (Reuters) – A strong earthquake killed at least 51 villagers in a remote part of eastern Turkey before dawn yesterday, officials said, and aftershocks continued for hours while rescuers searched for trapped survivors.

The Upper Bonasika Primary School on the Essequibo River last Thursday received an outboard engine from the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development to help curb the transportation woes of the students.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood finally entrusted a female director with an Oscar on Sunday.

21 murders for first 59 days of 2010 – according to SN records Knife-related crimes are up this year, accounting for eight murders at the end of February.

Officials remain tight-lipped about its status Is the $18.8 million Venezuela rice and paddy deal still on?

Minister Clement Rohee has dismissed criticisms of his ministry’s plans to spend $37M on water cannon to disperse demonstrators, saying it is better to use the water cannon than rubber bullets.

A fourth suspect – a sister of one of the three men already charged – has been charged with murder in connection with the February 20 killing of a Guyanese immigrant in the New York county of Schenectady, a Times Union report said yesterday.

Residents of Hope/Dochfour on the East Coast of Demerara are calling on the authorities to give them more information as they are still in the dark about compensation to be paid to them for their land as well as other issues, such as whether a feasibility study would be undertaken on the proposed Hope Relief Canal whose construction will see more than 40 households in the area being relocated.

Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz is living proof that social networking can level the playing field during election campaigns.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has said that all the necessary regulations are in place to facilitate the opening of casinos in Guyana as the Gambling Act gives the minister the power simply to have the regulations gazetted, and does not require that they be taken before the National Assembly.

The Guyanese man who was wanted by the FBI in connection with a US$7M mortage scam, was captured on Wednesday last, according to the Daily News.

-GHRA The failure to pass the Sexual Offences Bill into law “constitutes the most significant disappointment with respect to women,” the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) said yesterday, adding that nine months later the ‘Stamp it Out’ bill is still at the level of the Select Committee and  expectations and momentum are waning.

Jason Montgomery, the Australian shot during a robbery at Safraz’s Bar and Restaurant in January, has finally made it home.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bomb blasts and rocket and  mortar fire killed 38 people as Iraqis voted on Sunday in an  election they hoped would distance their nascent democracy from  years of sectarian slaughter as US troops pack up to leave.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says that he has recommended that the fee paid to stray catchers be increased to $5000 for each animal they take off the roadways as the job is a risky one.

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s acting president  yesterday ordered the security forces to hunt down those behind  clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers in  which more than 300 people may have been killed.