Month: January 2011

Georgetown-Police say that the body of Michelle Benjamin of Gordon Street, Kitty, was recovered this morning in the Aliki area, Essequibo River. Michelle Benjamin was feared drowned on Sunday January 09, 2011 after the boat she was travelling in began to take in water and the passengers panicked and jumped overboard. Benjamin, who was among a group of 10 persons travelling in a boat, disappeared off the coast of Parika,  during a rescue operation to bring them ashore, after their vessel began taking in water near an area called Aliki in the Essequibo River.

Georgetown-The police are seeking the help of the public to identify the decomposed body of an East Indian which was found in a canal at North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
The body was clad in a pair of blue pants; a blue, grey and white multi-coloured shirt; with a Casio wrist watch on his right hand, a green bag over his shoulder and barefooted.
 

Georgetown- Ranks stationed at the Kitty outpost were forced to evacuate the building along with prisoners following a bomb scare just minutes ago. The fire service and bomb squad were alerted. This has now become a trend since the start of the year. Just recently, there was one at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, putting a temporary halt to flights, but following a thorough sweep by authorities nothing was found.

The authorities while acknowledging that this mischievous trend often happens during an election year in Guyana, they are not taking any chances. 

 Georgetown – Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud met with representatives of the Guyana Poultry Producers’ Association to discuss agriculture development plans for 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.