Guyana News

Close to 30 Guyanese residing in Trinidad illegally were on Wednesday rounded-up and have been given deadlines by which they must leave that country.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and Cabinet members will today partake in a “pork buffet” at the New Thriving Restaurant even as the Ministry of Agriculture assures the public that the country’s pig industry is free from swine flu.

The Health Ministry has come under the microscope again for drug purchases made in breach of procurement laws, according to the 2007 Auditor General’s Report, which has also revealed that some supplies sourced from the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Inc.

A 40-year-old man of Bath Experiment, West Berbice died when the tractor he was driving turned over and pinned him in the rice field aback of Hopetown Village around 9:45 am yesterday.

Well-known former radio broadcaster Pat Cameron better known as ‘Aunty Pat’ is gravely ill in a US hospital.

Persaud urges review of ‘lost’ 6m euros Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud met with a team from the European Commission (EC) yesterday to review the country’s sugar action plan and pressed for the EC to reconsider its position on denying Guyana $6 million euros in resources.

A post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the body of 29-year-old Arifa Muntazali which was found in a trench at Chesney Backdam proved to be inconclusive due to the advanced state of decomposition and her lover is expected to be charged.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A constitutional crisis in  Honduras deepened yesterday after the supreme court rejected  President Manuel Zelaya’s firing of the top military officer in  a dispute over Zelaya’s quest to allow presidents to serve more  than a single four-year term in office.

-2007 Auditor General report The Report of the Auditor General for 2007 has revealed that the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) failed to observe the requirements of the Procurement Act for its capital works but the department has since assured that it has taken corrective action.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Farrah Fawcett,  the “Charlie’s Angels” television star whose big smile and  feathered blond mane made her one of the reigning sex symbols  of the 1970s, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. 

Scotiabank is conducting voluntary HIV counselling and testing today in observance of Regional Testing Day 2009, at its branches in Guyana and throughout the Caribbean.

A Stabroek Market stall holder is now counting his losses following a break-in at his stall on Wednesday  night  by thieves in which approximately $3M worth of DVD players, mobile phones and tape decks  among other electrical items were stolen.

-residents nervy The body of the businessman, who was ambushed and killed along the UNAMCO trail on Tuesday, was riddled with bullet holes, with at least three large wounds that appeared to have been fired at close range.

Guyana has instructed its Consulate in Barbados to compile reported cases of early morning raids on the homes of Guyanese resident on the island and to follow-up on the offer made by Prime Minister David Thompson to investigate such allegations.

-lover confesses to murdering her – sources The badly decomposed body of 29-year-old Arifa Muntazali of Number 64 Village, Corentyne has been discovered at Chesney Backdam, Corentyne and a man with whom she shared a relationship has admitted to killing her.

-signs point to murder The body found at the back of the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri, on Tuesday has been identified as that of a missing Campbellville man, who, according to relatives, was brutally murdered.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The Belgian teenager who made  headlines across the globe after claiming a tattoo artist had  drawn 56 stars on her face, rather than the three she asked for,  has admitted she lied.

Two persons have been arrested in connection with the Gay Park, Greater New Amsterdam robbery on Monday evening which left 34-year-old Mohanie Latiff nursing gunshot and chop wounds at the NA Hospital.

The owner of the car which allegedly caused the death of a man at Broad and Ketley streets two weeks ago was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $30,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of a breach of insurance and permitting an unlicensed driver.

LONDON, (Reuters) – People have been making music  for more than 35,000 years, judging by prehistoric bird-bone  flutes excavated in southwest Germany.