News

Local representatives of Caricom and the UN yesterday convened a meeting aimed at facilitating a more responsive programme of cooperation between the two institutions.

Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, yesterday said that he would be sending some of his officers into the secondary school where a student was found with a quantity of marijuana and it was discovered that a gang was peddling drugs and stolen items.

Nearly one year after he was killed, the police are yet to find the persons who pumped 13 bullets into the body of Ronald Waddell.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that he is in no hurry to appoint acting commissioner Henry Greene as the substantive Police Commissioner and announced that from February 1 former New York Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik will be contracted to provide security advice to him and the Minister of Home Affairs.

The body of a man was found on the Pomeroon River bank on Wednesday shortly after a boat he operated was spotted drifting in the river.

A mysterious fire yesterday destroyed a small part of a newspaper vendor’s residence in Sophia.

An interfaith service is the Deputy Regional Executive Officer’s (DREO) and the mash committee’s choice of a perfect start for the Region Two events preceding Mashramani 2007 In an interview, DREO Carl Parker said that the event cannot be a one-man show and as a result his committee includes members of the business community, the department of education, the police force, the fire service, the New Opportunity Corps, officers of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and the general public.

Bosai Minerals Group Ltd and Canadian firm IAMGOLD will have to wait until mid February to get an answer from the government on a proposed US$46M deal to sell IAMGOLD’s 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) and Omai Services Inc to Bosai.

A 28-year-old man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on larceny and robbery under arms charges and was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John on Tuesday remanded the couple charged with the Christmas Day murder at Blairmont and adjourned the case to February 13, the date set for the beginning of the preliminary inquiry (PI).

Two men accused of raping and robbing a Rosignol woman were granted bail on Tuesday when they appeared before Magistrate Kim Kyte-John to answer to the charges at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Chandra Sohan committed two men accused of murder to stand trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Berbice when they on Tuesday appeared before him at the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John committed murder accused Sean Isaacs to stand trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Berbice.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John on Tuesday remanded to prison a man who appeared before her at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of attempted murder.

Drug accused businessman, Roger Khan was yesterday transferred from the Nassau County Correctional centre, a state prison to a US federal facility.

Within the next two years the Ministry of Health through its Guyana HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Project (GAPCP) will spend an additional $85.5M to fund sixteen HIV/AIDS-related programmes.

The International Press Institute (IPI), with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, is calling on the Guyana government to show greater transparency in awarding advertisements to the media here.

The Aircraft Owners Associa-tion of Guyana (AOAG) yesterday said there was an urgent need for modern air traffic control systems at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and that the government should expedite this.

Police were summoned on Tuesday to a city school after one of the students was found with a quantity of marijuana and it was later discovered that a gang was operating from the school peddling not only drugs but also stolen items.

An Airy Hall, Mahaicony family is now homeless after a fire gutted their home and a fire tender from Georgetown arrived one hour after the blaze started.