Guyana News

A 34-year old labourer accused of attempted murder was granted $200,000 bail when he yesterday made his first court appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is calling on the diplomatic community to work  with the Guyanese people “to ensure the freedoms and rights they embrace and enjoy in their respective countries are also embraced and enjoyed here.”

A 26-year-old miner was stabbed twice on Monday last at Matthew’s Ridge by a man who was said to be “still at large”.

A man, who died last month at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was involved in an accident on Mandela Avenue, is still to be identified.

Magistrate Sueanna Lovell granted a 46-year-old father of two $150,000 bail when he yesterday appeared in court to answer to the charge of obtaining by false pretence.

Magistrate Sueanna Lovell ordered the three men accused of fatally shooting 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris at her Robb Street home to appear in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on January 5 for a report and fixture.

Magistrate Sueanna Lovell granted a South Sophia man accused of robbery $100,000 bail when he yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge.

When a small but meaningful number of Indian voters chose to cast their votes for the Alliance For Change and others not to vote at all rather than vote for the PPP/C, they made what I previously conceived as a possibility and referred to as an opening up of “a mammoth possibility for national renewal.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told  U.S. diplomats and foreign aid workers today to do more to  advance gay rights abroad, a move that promotes U.S.

The Guyana Elections Commission today agreed to hand over Statements of Poll to the parties which contested the November 28 polls.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite criticisms from Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and many others in T&T, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she has no regrets about calling the state of emergency to deal with spiralling crime. The

(Trinidad Express) Joseph Hagley’s acute sense of hearing saved the lives of his wife and daughter before he was killed by the landslide which destroyed their Sans Souci home on Sunday morning, according to two of his sons.

(Trinidad Express) The image of this country has been damaged. The “success” of the State of Emergency is not convincing and the alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Government Ministers was perhaps another “misstep”.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Political analyst, Kevin O’Brien Chang, says it is disgraceful that an election is just weeks away and neither of the country’s major political parties have published their manifesto.

Police this morning opened fire with rubber bullets on APNU protesters on Hadfield Street leaving at least five persons with wounds.

LIAT today said that all pilots who were scheduled to work this morning have called in sick.

(Barbados Nation) Bridgetown is set to launch Duty-Free Day on Friday, with Government and the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) very upbeat about the returns in the face of the economic downturn.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Some sixty percent of the members of the Wayana communities Apetina and Anapayke have mercury levels above the safety limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The PPP/C has advised the Chief Election Officer, Gocool Boodoo of the names of its 32 members of Parliament and asked that the names be extracted from its list of candidates.

(Trinidad Express) T&T’s latest McDonald’s was opened at Grand Bazaar in Valsayn yesterday morning with a short VIP ceremony following which the restaurant was opened to the general public at 10 am. The