Day: January 10, 2011

Essequibo-
The police are investigating an incident that occurred. yesterday, at Aliki in the Essequibo River where Michelle Benjamin, 22 years of Gordon Street, Kitty, is feared to have drowned.
Investigations revealed that a boat with 10 passengers was travelling from Bird Island to Aliki, EBE, when the vessel began to take water and the persons panicked and jumped overboard. With assistance from persons on another boat nine of them were rescued, but Michelle Benjamin is believed to have drowned. Her body not yet been found.

 Georgetown – Chairman of the Guyana Election’s Commission Dr. Steve Surujballi will now have to give up his Chairmanship of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority for the smooth and effective running of the election’s office for the upcoming National Election, this is according to Guyana’s head of state President Bharrat Jagdeo.

 Georgetown – President Bharrat Jagdeo briefing the media this afternoon at the Office of the President said, general elections will definitely be held this year as constitutionally listed. He emphasized that he will not be contesting since his 2nd term comes to an end.

 Georgetown – Enabling an accelerated deployment of Guyana’s first Mobile WiMAX network, Aptilo Networks, the global leader in pre-integrated solutions for control of billing, user services and access in wireless networks including Wi-Fi, WiMAX™ and LTE, has been selected by E-Networks Inc, the largest wireless Broadband Internet Service Provider in Guyana, to provide service management, prepayment capabilities and policy control for their WiMAX service.  

 Stabroek, Georgetown – Vendors in small groups this morning went back to ply their business at the stabroek Market square where the Government dismantled stalls over the weekend.

Camp street, Georgetown– The prison service backed by police investigators are trying to determine who may be responsible for secretly passing weapons, drugs and cell phones to prisoners at the Camp street jail. When contacted today, prison officials indicated that a number of suspects are being questioned as investigations continue into the recent find following a massive search. Prison officers are among those held for questioning.

Georgetown– Fire investigators this morning are examining the scene of the 2 am fire on Main & Holmes sts. which destroyed Humprey’s building where a number of businesses were housed. Nearby residents in the Tiger Bay area reported hearing explosions before fire was seen on the top floor of the old wooden building. Among the offices destroyed were that of Frandec and Liat travel services. Up to the time of this report, investigators were unable to say what caused the fire.