Guyana News

Lindie Sharpe, husband of the May 22nd Amelia’s Ward accident victim, Enid Sharpe said that he got no assistance from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for the burial of his wife and was told that the matter is in the hands of the police.

The main opposition PNCR has named its nominees for the special select committee examining legislative reforms for impending local government elections.

-says Guyana mischaracterised as a trafficking haven The Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) has rejected the US State Department’s labelling of Guyana as a “Tier Two Watch List Country” and its continual mischaracterization of the country as a trafficking haven.

Troy De Mattos, the Stabroek Market drink vendor who was shot and robbed on Saturday night, is in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

-GGMC The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) intends to turn down applications for mining licences in the Rewa and Rupununi rivers, Commissioner William Woolford says.

Kwame Rumel Jobronewet, who went missing mere hours after he arrived in Guyana two Fridays ago, had still not been found up to press time last night.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted a woman a total of $17,000 bail when she appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of assault and malicious damage to property.

The Region Three administration is calling on residents to make an effort to bring their rates and taxes payment up to date, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

…after confessing to stealing mangoes Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ordered a labourer to keep the peace for two years and to serve a period of community service after he admitted stealing a quantity of mangoes because  “de tree de loaded and yuh could see that de people deh don’t use de mango.”

A 45-year-old Port Kaituma man was pronounced dead at the Kwakwani Hospital after a tree fell on him while he was logging on Saturday afternoon.

Two armed men on Saturday night robbed a Survival Supermarket clerk of a bag containing some $1.7 million.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health on Monday signed the ‘100% Smoke Free Policy Declaration’ in the company’s boardroom.

The Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities elected a new executive and established several committees aimed at fulfilling its mandate, when it held its first general elections held on May 22.

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DUBAI, (Reuters) – If it were in a position to do  so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in its fight  against the United States, a top leader of the group said in  remarks aired yesterday.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu extended the tenure of the Mossad chief to an  eighth year yesterday, a testament to the spymaster’s perceived  success in waging shadow wars against Iran and its allies. 

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Russian spies are targeting the  German energy sector to help Russian firms gain commercial  advantages, the head of Germany’s domestic counter-espionage  unit said yesterday.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli archaeologists said  yesterday they had discovered the largest underground quarry in  the Holy Land, dating back to the time of Jesus and containing  Christian symbols etched into the walls.

ROME, (Reuters) – A top Sicilian mafia boss on  Italy’s list of 30 most dangerous men has been arrested in  Venezuela, the interior ministry said yesterday.

KIRKUK, Iraq, (Reuters) – The death toll from Iraq’s  deadliest bombing in more than a year rose to 73, police said yesterday, a day after a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed  with explosives outside a mosque in the north of the country.