GUYANA- Doctors were Saturday forced to amputate the left arm of an unidentified man who was shot after scaling the wall of the People’s Progressive Party’s Headquarters in Robb Street and allegedly attacking a security guard who was trying to apprehend him. The intruder sustained shotgun injuries to the left arm and abdomen during the confrontation, which occurred at around 23.30 hrs on Friday.( kaieteurnews)…[+]

THE HAGUE — Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Prime Minister Mark Rutte attended a memorial on Saturday in The Hague to commemorate the surrender of Japan 70 years ago. The remembrance ceremony is organized each year on August 15 at the Indisch Monument (the Indies Monument) in The Hague to commemorate the Dutch citizens and soldiers killed during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, in World War II. For the first time King Willem-Alexander was present as the head of state at the memorial. It is customary for the head of state to visit the memorial once every five years, because the anniversary of the Japanese surrender is not an official national memorial in the Netherlands. The King laid the first wreath, followed by, among others, Premier Rutte. The Dutch survivors of the Japanese occupation later claimed to have received insufficient recognition for the suffering they had experienced. (Xinhua)…[+]

INDIA-Indian beauty salon chain Naturals will soon open outlets in the US and the Middle East, a top company official said. In India, the chain will increase the number of outlets from the current 480 to 3,000 by the end of 2018, the official said. The company is also planning to launch its brand of ayurveda-based beauty products and raise Rs.100 crore (US$ 15.74 million) through private equity by diluting around 20 percent, he said. (Source: Indo-Asian News Service)…[+]

INDIA- Japanese electronics giant Sony is all set to make in India, though the products will be contract-manufactured at Taiwanese maker Foxconn’s upcoming facilities in the country. Sony looks at local sourcing for the second time after it stopped the practice in 2004 when it opted to only import. Top industry sources said Sony has decided in favour o local manufacturing as the Government has offered several incentives. “However, Sony is not looking at manufacturing on its own at this mo ment,” a source said. (The Times of India)…[+]

Government has met with the senior officials of the Chinese Embassy over its One Laptop Per Family and E-Governance projects.According to the Ministry of the Presidency, the Government of Guyana is reaffirming its commitment to making Guyana an “education nation” – a task that can only be done through preparing teachers, institutions and communities to carry out their mandates of teaching and forming young minds with the use of technology. Thursday, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, met with China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Zhang Limin.The Minister and the Ambassador discussed issues relative to the final shipment of laptop computers to be shipped from China, the E-Governance Unit, and the operationalizing of the E-Governance Network.(Kaieteur news/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

GUYANA-Two teenage cousins lost their lives in the wee hours Thursday after the vehicle they were traveling in crashed, destroying a bus shed on the Sparta Public Road. Rupesh Jadoo, 19, of Reliance, Essequibo Coast, died on the spot while his younger cousin, 13-year-old Bhidesh Mohabir, of Sparta, Essequibo Coast, succumbed while at the Suddie Public Hospital. Both teenagers suffered multiple injuries. The accident reportedly occurred shortly after midnight.Recounting what happened prior to the accident, Ruvina Mohabir, the sister of Bhidesh, an Anna Regina Secondary School student, told Kaieteur News that her brother, who would have celebrated his fourteenth birthday soon.(Kaieteur news/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

Frustrated and worried sick, a 48-year-old mother of nine took to the streets yesterday to protest against her 15-year-old daughter being detained at the Whim Police Station lockups on the Corentyne. As Bridgette Moore braved the scorching sun and lobbied the Chancellor’s Office at the Court of Appeal, Kingston, she recorded her dissatisfaction with the way the teen is being passed through the system as a result of decisions taken by Magistrate Marissa Mittelholzer at the Albion Court.The young girl has been remanded in custody since her first court appearance on July 12 on an assault charge. The majority of the time, Moore says, the teen has been languishing in the Whim Police Station lockups.(Kaieteur news/ newswhip.com)…[+]

GUYANA-There are more details emerging over what pushed the new administration to start looking beyond the Amaila Falls hydro electric project.According to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) deceived Guyana on the project. It knew that one of the financiers, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), had no client to develop the project after US-owned Sithe Global walked in 2013.The ambitious project, the country’s most has been heavily pushed by the previous administration to solve Guyana’s energy needs, with a capacity of 165 megawatts of power from the Region Eight falls site in the Kuribrong River.(Kaieteur news/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

GUYANA-Investigations have been carried out with some success, prosecutors in the judiciary are inadequately trained to handle electronic evidence….legislative gaps are an additional roadblock…Guyana has some procedural law to deal with computer evidence but lacks substantive cyber crime laws.”In an era where almost every aspect of daily life is centred on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the need to build capacity to detect, prevent and fight cyber crime in Guyana has been further underscored, with stakeholders coming together yesterday to come up with strategies.(Kaieteur news/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

A Tucville Squatting Area resident was remanded to prison yesterday after it was alleged that she had an illegal fire arm, ammunition and two grams of cannabis in her possession. Lizolette La Cruz, 25, appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after she was accused of having a .25 pistol and 6.25 rounds of ammunition in her possession on August 6, 2015, when she was not the holder of a firearm licence. It was also alleged that on the day in question, she had two grammes of cannabis in her possession. She denied the firearm and ammunition charge and pleaded guilty to the drug charge after they were read to her.(Kaieteur news)…[+]