Guyana News

Three contracts totalling US$4.2M ($850M) awarded to the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Inc (New GPC) for the supply of drugs for the health ministry have been flagged as the latest awards to the supplier which evade the tendering process.

-says time of the essence in sale of properties Judicial Manager Maria van Beek has refuted claims by attorneys for Clico (Guyana) that the company has great liquid cash resources saying that it suffered the blow of the US$34M “badly invested” in The Bahamas, and a great number of policy surrenders earlier this year.

Over the next four months, the army flagship GDFS Essequibo will have major repairs done to its main and auxiliary engines by a Brazilian naval engineering firm.

A Goed Fortuin family was yesterday afternoon plunged into mourning following the drowning of a nine-year-old boy. 

-complainant’s brother also takes poison The brother of the 18-year-old girl, who attempted suicide last Saturday over a rape ordeal, also made an attempt on his own life yesterday and he is currently being monitored at the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted as a patient.

The partly decomposed body of an unidentified man was yesterday found at the back of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

The partly decomposed body of a woman identified as Shiva Khan was yesterday fished out of a trench at Unity Public Road, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.

A 36-year-old woman sustained a gunshot wound and cutlass injuries when six armed bandits entered her Lot 13 Gay Park Providence, Greater New Amsterdam home at around 7:30 pm yesterday; she is now a patient at the NA Hospital.

EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject  to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take  pictures in Tehran.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio  Berlusconi has denied ever paying a woman for sex, as he faces  growing political pressure over lurid allegations that he slept  with a female escort who was paid to attend his parties.

Police constable Kord Sobers on Wednesday testified before Magistrate Ann McLennan that he had seen a Linden man accused of possession hitting a girl before he searched him and found ganja hidden in his crotch.

Matthew Leacock and Andrew Thom, both of Nottinghamshire, Mackenzie, Linden appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer charges of possession of narcotics and an unlicensed firearm.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A band of conspirators in Miami  defrauded the U.S.

Ashley Pieters, the woman charged with causing the death of a man at Broad and Ketley streets two weeks ago by dangerous driving was read additional traffic charges yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Ed McMahon, a fixture on  U.S. late-night television for 30 years as the full-throated  announcer and sidekick for Johnny Carson on NBC’s “The Tonight  Show,” died on Tuesday at age 86, his spokesman said.

A ministerial team recently hosted the first of several planned sub-national consultations on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) at Annai, Lethem and Aishalton in order to solicit support from these Region Nine communities.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A U.S. drone killed  at least 45 Pakistani Taliban militants yesterday when it  struck after a funeral of an insurgent commander killed earlier  in the day, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers’ Union (GPTWU), the union which represents employees in the telecoms sector, is objecting to recent statements made by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) relating to GT&T and the future of the entity.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The United States  and European Union took action against China yesterday for  restricting exports of industrial raw materials, intensifying a  trade struggle at a delicate time for the global economy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said  yesterday his healthcare overhaul needed a public insurance  option to enforce market “discipline,” but stopped short of  saying he would veto legislation without one.