Guyana News

A Nigerian national who is accused of being in possession of cocaine  for the purpose of trafficking  at the Springlands, Berbice backtrack crossing was remanded  yesterday by  Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Telephone and other telecommunication services for thousands of customers around central Georgetown have been repeatedly disrupted over the past weeks as a result of what seems to be organized rampant vandalism, GT&T said on Monday.

Investigators have been unable to solve last month’s shooting at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara that left one man dead and another wounded.

Three men who are jointly charged with felonious wounding were denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A miner who allegedly had a 12-gauge shotgun and cartridges at a Cuyuni  River location while being unlicensed was yesterday denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday declined to respond to a raft of withering public criticism at his ruling last Friday in which he dismissed the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to charge Commissioner of Police Henry Greene with rape.

Notice has been served by Parliament Office that APNU MP Carl Greenidge will be asking Finance Minister Ashni Singh whether the regulations for the former presidents benefits Act have been presented to Parliament.

Major rehabilitation works including the redesigning and re-engineering of several aspects of the troubled multi-million dollar Skeldon Sugar factory are being planned and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) anticipates a significant increase in production at the factory next year.

Gold miner IAMGOLD through one of its subsidiaries has acquired a number of shares in Stronghold Metals Inc with respect to the Eagle Mountain exploration concession here.

Chris Nurse appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a larceny from the person charge before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton who placed him on $65,000 bail.

The police say that they are still conducting investigations into the incident in which a  man was shot in the left shoulder by two armed men who robbed his brother in the vicinity of the White Castle Fish Shop on Hadfield Street Monday evening.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The European Union banned Venezuelan state airline Conviasa today from flying in the 27-nation bloc over safety concerns in a move that Venezuela’s government said was disproportionate.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kingston businessman Dick Hart was today sentenced to six months’ imprisonment at hard labour for bribing a policeman.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Workers at Caribbean Cement remain off the job this afternoon as discussions continue at the labour ministry over an industrial dispute.

LONDON, (Reuters) – James Murdoch resigned as chairman of BSkyB today to prevent his links to a tabloid phone-hacking scandal from undermining the pay TV group, which has so far escaped the worst of the damage convulsing its controlling shareholder News Corp.

Chief Justice Ian Chang today declined to respond to a raft of withering public criticism at his ruling last Friday in which he dismissed the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to charge Commissioner of Police Henry Greene with rape.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – A possible conviction of Desi Bouterse, main suspect in the ‘December murders’, will create much unrest in Suriname, and that is why amnesty should be granted for these crimes, so the current positive economic developments may continue, Theo Vishnudatt (MC/NDP), chairman of the reporting committee, told Parliament yesterday.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Yesterday, opposition members, at times supported by some coalition members, tore to pieces the proposed amendment to the 1989 Amnesty Act submitted by some coalition members.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thieves made off with large chunks of a 68-foot metal bridge across the Cap-de-Ville River, Cedros, over the weekend in a brazen theft of material for sale as scrap metal.

Notice has been served by Parliament Office that APNU MP Carl Greenidge will be asking Finance Minister Ashni Singh whether the regulations for the former presidents benefits Act have been presented to Parliament.