Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – It may have had one of the  wettest premieres in memory this week, but that did little to  dampen critics’ enthusiasm for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood  Prince”, the sixth film in the blockbuster franchise.

Magistrate Ann McLennan issued arrest warrants for two Linden drivers who failed to appear in court on Tuesday to answer to charges for traffic offences.

The Culture ministry says it will be hosting its annual Children’s Taxidermy Summer Camp at the Guyana National Museum.

-warns against kangaroo court PNCR Executive Aubrey Norton has denied accusations that his statements about the outcome of the controversial Georgetown District Conference vote have brought the main opposition party into disrepute, warning that such claims appeared to be intended to provide the basis for bringing “spurious charges” against him.

A 66-year-old man, who was on trial before the Berbice Assizes for the 2005 rape of a girl who was then ten years old, hanged himself on a tree in his backyard some time between Tuesday night and yesterday morning.

Drug trafficking accused Ghalee Khan, who was busted in the US last November and later charged with jumping bail, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a drug charge.

The charge of attempting to commit murder on City Mall businesswoman Dhanwantie Phulchand was yesterday read to a 16-year-old girl at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court who was later remanded to prison.

Principal Education Officer, Chandrakala Ramsammy has died. She was 52. Relatives last evening confirmed her death but declined to say anything about the circumstances.

–Commonwealth Secretary GeneralCommonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma says economies which are extremely reliant on one or two products will face obvious problems in an increasingly changing trade environment and he stressed that the way global trade is shifting it is difficult for small states to maintain one aspect of a trading arrangement.

-following deaths from vomiting, diarrhoea A team of officials from the Regional Health Services (RHS) department of the Ministry of Health will be visiting the Moruca Sub-Region in the coming days as part of a medical outreach as  preparations are underway to have a Cuban doctor stationed at Moruca in the coming weeks.

Calls have started to trickle in and there may be hope for Nalini Mohammed nee Shivram, the woman who has been undergoing dialysis for the last two years.

Former university librarian Yvonne Stephenson has described the late Kathleen Drayton as “a strong advocate for women’s rights” and a “very serious academic”, who made her presence felt on the campus. 

L’AQUILA, Italy, (Reuters) – Group of Eight leaders  agreed yesterday the world economy still faced “significant  risks” and it was too early to unwind measures put in place to  end the deepest recession in living memory.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s voters handed  President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono a second five-year term yesterday, placing their faith in his firm hand on the economic  tiller and his promises to quicken the pace of reform.

By Cathy Richards PNCR Member of Parliament Vanessa Kissoon has slammed conditions at the Paediatric Ward at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), which she says are making patient care difficult.

URUMQI, China,  (Reuters) – Paramilitary police fanned  out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi yesterday to try  to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in the  region’s worst ethnic violence in decades.

TCL Guyana Inc. (TGI) yesterday announced a 5 percent discount on all cement leaving the plant this month.

A 32-year-old rice farmer who allegedly knowingly made a false statement on a passport application form was yesterday placed on $60,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan government doctors  who gave civilian casualty figures to the media in the final  months of the island nation’s 25-year war recanted yesterday  after spending weeks under arrest.

Joint services patrols at Bamia, Linden-Soesdyke Highway and the Amelia’s Ward Highway have been suspended following the recent shooting of a Linden man at the Bamia blockade.