Guyana News

Declaring that the days of the PPP/C using the National Assembly as a rubber stamp are over, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday called for national support as it moves to enact laws for constitutional and electoral reforms.

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday remanded a minibus tout to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of unlawful and malicious wounding.

Two men, who are accused of a knife-point robbery in the vicinity of Stabroek Market, were remanded to prison yesterday by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A former boxer was early yesterday morning burnt to death when fire ravaged his home at Farm, East Bank Essequibo, in what authorities suspect was an arson attack.

The Railway View Parent Committee (RVPC) on the West Coast of Demerara has won the Rotary Club of Georgetown’s coveted Vocational Service Award for its literacy project.

Representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries on Monday urged that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) be better equipped to help them face natural disasters and potential economic downturns.

A forester with  knowledge of forestry issues here has written to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature protesting its appointment of former President Bharrat Jagdeo as its high-level envoy for sustainable development in forest countries.

The Ministry of Finance on Monday started a five-day workshop which aims to strengthen government’s monitoring and evaluation systems with the view to improving public financial management.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) has withdrawn its offer of a seven per cent wage increase to striking workers and has refused to continue negotiations with the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU), blaming the union for acts of violence and terror tactics against the company.

(Trinidad Express) The Heritage and Stabilisation Fund now stands at US$4 billion, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Vice president of Operations at Caribbean Airlines (CAL), Thomas Lawrence, has been demoted and chief pilot Jagmohan Singh is now acting in his position at the State carrier.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Pop star Whitney Houston died of accidental drowning due to the effects of cocaine use and heart disease, a Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman said today.

(Reuters) – The financier Allen Stanford today lost his bid for a new trial, 16 days after being convicted for running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme.

Declaring that the days of the PPP/C using the National Assembly as a rubber stamp are over, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) today called for national support as it moves to enact laws for constitutional and electoral reforms.

(Trinidad Guardian) A multi-million-dollar facility, special buses and food cards are among the goodies the Government will be rolling out for physically challenged people.

A forester with  knowledge of forestry issues here has written to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature protesting its appointment of former President Bharrat Jagdeo as its high-level envoy for sustainable development in forest countries.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A warning from Alcoa that it will shut down the Clarendon-based Jamalco operations if the administration refuses to pay its share of the cost to operate the plant, as well as heightened concerns by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about significant arrears owing by the state, forced the Government to table the J$11.2-billion Third Supplementary Estimates that were approved in the House of Representatives yesterday.

A pensioner was burnt to death in a fire which started in his house at Farm, East Bank Essequibo around 4:30 this morning; another house in the yard was also burnt separately.

TOULOUSE, France, (Reuters) – A 23-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwestern France in the name of al Qaeda, jumped from a window to his death in a hail of bullets after police stormed his apartment today.

A 45-year-old Canefield, East Canje businesswoman was brutally stabbed to death around 10:25 pm on Tuesday during a domestic row with her husband of 27 years and he has since gone into hiding.