News

– residents slam lack of preparation for rainfall Flooded out city residents yesterday condemned the authorities for failing to heed several calls made over the past seven months for drainage works to be carried out.

– on learning that study is for a certificate, not a degreeMost of the students who were recently granted scholarships to study in Mexico yesterday refused to take up the offer after they learnt that at the end of the three-year programme they would receive certificates and not degrees as was advertised in the local newspapers.

A son of the late minister within the Ministry of Education Desrey Fox was yesterday charged with causing her death last December by dangerous driving.

– lead cops to accomplice The two men who were held minutes after an armed robbery was committed at a Vreed-en-Hoop Digicel Outlet on Wednesday, confessed to the incident and later led police to a third man.

A Berbice man who was found with marijuana at a Fort Wellington road block was on Wednesday sentenced to three years imprisonment after he admitted to trafficking in 100 grammes of the narcotic.

Forty-two-year-old Trevor Smithet of North Cummingsburg yesterday admitted at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court that he had used abusive language towards a police corporal at the Central Immigration and Passport Office.

The National Archives of the Netherlands yesterday presented the Walter Rodney National Archives of Guyana with digital copies of Dutch colonial maps of Guyana at the National Archives building on Homestretch Avenue.

Relatives of 22-year-old Vincent Roberts are frantically searching for the man who has been missing since Wednesday afternoon.

PNCR parliamentarian Winston Murray is of the view that the authorities should look at reorganizing the roles of relevant agencies in their approach to combating climate change as the government cites adaptation as its biggest challenge in addressing the issue.

Israel Brummell, 20, of 282 Redwood Crescent, Mackenzie was remanded on Tuesday for allegedly trafficking in narcotics.

Shaw Mohammed was remanded to prison on Tuesday when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of malicious damage to property.

The parents of a four-year-old girl were left mourning yesterday after the child drowned at an East Bank Demerara location.

– no word from authorities Captain of the DeVeldt Berbice River community Laxley Lindie yesterday said that he has repeatedly informed Region Ten Education Officer Claude Johnson about the area’s primary school head teacher’s absence.

The Georgetown hospital treated and discharged a man and a girl who had allegedly been assaulted and a 34-year-old woman who had been struck down by a bus.

A 45-year-old man is nursing injuries in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown hospital after he was hit by a van on Tuesday.

– $37million allocated for more repairs The main theatre at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) in Region Three has been rehabilitated and became fully operational more than a month ago and government has allocated about $37 million for additional renovations.

A man is assisting the police with their investigation into Tuesday’s Princes Street shooting incident but he is not in police custody and is not a suspect.

LONDON (Reuters) – A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano turned northern Europe into a no-fly zone yesterday, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – China and Brazil bolstered their growing ties with trade and investment agreements yestersday before a summit of the world’s top four emerging markets that was cut back after China’s leader decided to return home to deal with a major earthquake.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said a management committee will be set up in order to manage development at Lethem even as he acknowledged the transformation the community has undergone, in his address to businessmen over the Easter weekend.