Police are trying to ascertain the identities of a young couple whose bodies were found at the Kingston seawalls Monday . Police said that the victims of East Indian ancestry were fully clothed and are estimated to be in their early twenties. It is believed that the victims committed suicide. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed that none of the bodies bore any marks of violence. He said that Crime Scene ranks retrieved two receipts from the right pocket of the dead man. The receipts indicated that he had purchased two items from Caribbean Chemicals Limited on Croal Street some time Monday.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]
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Turkey’s ruling party wins big
TURKEY – Voters delivered a surprise win for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, in elections on Sunday.
In a major comeback from the previous general election, the AKP, led by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, seems to have secured a large enough majority of seats in parliament for single-party rule, according to preliminary results released by the semiofficial Anadolu News Agency.(CNN.COM/photo: turner.com)…[+]
Granger to decree Nov. 1 as Defence Force Day
As the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) celebrates its 50th anniversary, President David Granger has indicated his intention to declare November 1st as Defence Force Day.
President Granger made the declaration during a church service held yesterday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) to commemorate the Force’s anniversary. Granger said that the decision was a token of gratitude to the men and women of the GDF, past, present and future.“As a token of the gratitude of the nation to our military men and women, I intend to declare that today, the First of November – and that this day every year hereafter – shall be observed throughout the nation as Defence Force Day.”
According to the retired Brigadier, it was his honour to be Guyana’s newest Commander-in-Chief during the GDF’s important milestone. He noted that the Force came into being on November 1, 1965, right at the time when Guyana was preparing to gain independence from Britain.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]
Funeral parlour owners accuse Top Cop of cronyism
The proprietor of the Lyken/Newburg funeral home is calling on the Ministry of Public Security to put out a tender for the collection of human remains on behalf of the state, to eliminate what is being described as cronyism by a senior official of the Guyana Police Force. Dr. Dawn Stewart is convinced that the instruction of the Commissioner of Police to have human remains taken to the new Memorial and Crematorium Gardens Funeral Parlour is arbitrary and has created an uneven playing field. Her position is supported by the owners of at least two other established funeral homes, who have accused the police administration of touting the dead.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]
Dynamic Airways plane catches fire at Florida airport
The engine of a Caracas, Venezuela-bound Boeing 767 caught fire while the plane taxied for departure Thursday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, a US Federal Aviation Administration official said. The pilot of an aircraft traveling behind Dynamic International Airways Flight 405 reported fuel was leaking from the aircraft before it caught fire, the official said. The fire occurred about 12:30 pm on the airport’s north runway. Passengers evacuated the jet via emergency slides onto the taxiway. The airport was closed as emergency officials responded, airport spokesman Allan Siegel said.(Kaieteur News)…[+]
Economic cooperation tops agenda for Merkel’s China visit
GERMANY – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making her eighth visit to China with strengthening economic links atop her agenda. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Merkel witnessed the signing of 13 cooperation agreements after their talks on Thursday, including a deal for China to buy 130 aircraft from Airbus. The planes have a list price of 17 billion U.S. dollars, making the deal one of the largest orders China has ever placed with the European aviation giant. Merkel landed in Beijing earlier on Thursday, becoming the most frequent visitor to China among Western leaders. Since 2005, she had paid seven visits to China as German chancellor and spent time in seven Chinese cities. “The close contact and exchanges of visits between Chinese and German leaders revealed the momentum with which our relations are developing,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping in his meeting with Merkel.(Xinhua)...[+]
Paul Ryan elected House speaker
US- Rep. Paul Ryan was officially elected as the 54th speaker of the House after he got the votes of 236 members by the full House of Representatives. The vote was largely a formality after House Republicans nominated him for the position on Wednesday. But even some conservatives who did not support Ryan said that after weeks of infighting, they were eager to move on and give Ryan the space to unite the party’s various factions and craft a legislative agenda.(CNN)…[+]
Linden pensioner was manually strangled – postmortem
As the police continue their hunt for murder suspect Mark Reid, a postmortem has revealed that his father, Andrew Reid, was beaten and strangled. A senior police official confirmed that the postmortem showed that the 82-year-old pensioner died from manual strangulation and brain hemorrhage. His son, Mark Reid, is the prime suspect in the killing. The ex-convict has not returned to his Canvas City home since his father’s body was found last Saturday. He was spotted in the Blue Berry Hill Squatting area and Amelia’s Ward on Sunday.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]
Goldfields makes first sale as declarations creep upwards
It appears that gold declaration is picking up again but Guyana is not out of the woods yet when it comes to performance of the sector. As of last weekend, the declarations were over 317,000 ounces, just a couple of thousand less than for the corresponding period last year. With just over two months left of the year, the country would be hoping to overtake the 387,508 ounces recorded last year.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]
Shaker Aamer, last UK resident in Gitmo, returns home
U.S – For Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it has been a long haul. Bounty hunters captured Aamer in Afghanistan in 2001 and turned him over to the United States. He was cleared for release from Guantanamo in 2007. And yesterday, eight years later, he finally returned home to the UK.It has been a long haul for his family as well.(CNN.COM/photo:cnn.com)…[+]
