Guyana News

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.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – More than two dozen Internet  sites in South Korea and the United States, including the White  House, were attacked in recent days by hackers that South  Korea’s spy agency said may be linked to North Korea.

A man who allegedly killed another with an axe handle on Friday was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – A group of 133 Irish lawyers yesterday demanded the scrapping of a draft law against gangland  crime they say will hurt constitutional rights by allowing  non-jury trials, secret hearings and “opinion evidence”.

A two-day regional workshop aimed at promoting sustainable chainsaw milling in the Guiana Shield/Caribbean got underway yesterday at the Regency Suites Hotel, with  the importance of the sector being underscored but a warning also that recovery rates need to be improved.

RAMAT HASHARON, Israel, (Reuters) – In the late  1990s, a computer specialist from Israel’s Shin Bet internal  security service hacked into the mainframe of the Pi Glilot fuel  depot north of Tel Aviv.

Toshao of Moruka, Joseph De Souza yesterday confirmed that there had been two more deaths in Moruka from a gastro-like affliction bringing the toll to at least six while a number of persons have fallen sick even as a health team from Georgetown investigates.