Guyana News

-cites huge mortgage market The New Building Society (NBS) registered a profit for 2009 of $567M or 97% above the 2008 figure of $287M.

The bound body of a 57-year-old woman was early yesterday morning pulled from the charred ruins of her Sophia home.

Setting a world record as the youngest person to row solo across an ocean, American endurance athlete, Katie Spotz, 22, arrived in Port Georgetown yesterday, 70 days and 2817 miles from where she started in Dakar, Senegal.

By Tiffny Rhodius Sunday limes at the Golden Beach in Bartica bring with them piles of garbage, especially glass bottles in the water.

Rice production in Region Six got a boost on Friday with the commissioning of a new paddy drying facility at Number 43 Village (Bengal).

Fifteen months after the decomposing remains of Creavone Thorne were fished out of a Thomas Lands trench, her relatives remain convinced that a suspect was released prematurely by the police without proper analysis of the  evidence they had found implicating him.

Guyana’s Competition Com-mission is currently taking steps  to establish  a  secretariat for the commission which will be located at the National Exhibition Centre, Sophia, and the process of staff recruitment has commenced, a release from the Private Sector Commission (PSC) said.

Parlall Ramassar is in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed several times about the body by a man who had a feud with his cousin.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications is advising persons who have claims in relation to the purchase of tickets to and from Canada against Roraima Airways/Sunrise International Travels Inc to submit same to it.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo  Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on  Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a  website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his  ministers.

A fisherman was attacked by pirates off the Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne foreshore last Thursday and robbed of his engine, cell phone and groceries.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Gunmen in the  drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two  Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S.

Police recovered a stolen generator while searching a motor car at Reliance, Berbice, last Friday and the driver along with the two passengers have been arrested.

The Vector Control Unit of  the Georgetown City Council  will be targeting certain areas in the city in an anti-mosquito campaign  which is set to commence today.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki  pulled ahead yesterday in early results of an election Iraqis  hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but a divided vote  suggested long and fraught talks to form a government are ahead.

(Jamaica Observer) A Barbados minister of government has moved to shut out toxic Jamaican dancehall music from his country.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An international team of  scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one  plant family to another, offering broader protection from  potentially costly and destructive pests.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – More than 100,000 protesters  converged in Bangkok yesterday and gave Thailand’s  military-backed government an ultimatum to call elections within  24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the capital.

The TSU anti-crime unit aided by a heavy presence of mobile patrols around the city effected the swift rescue of a 26-year-old accountant who was kidnapped by a gang of three in West Ruimveldt on Friday night.

A police constable was beaten about the body before being robbed at gunpoint on Friday night minutes after he had gone to the rescue of an 18-year-old woman who had been taken to the Ogle Seawall against her will.