Guyana News

A hairdresser was on Thursday put on $50,000 bail after she denied charges that she damaged property when her common law spouse ended their relationship.

A mechanic was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with stealing two motorbikes.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was yesterday presented with 50 wheelchairs from the Director of the Friends Committed to Caring Organization David Searam.

Bartender Robbie Partab was yesterday charged with reaching into a customer’s pocket and stealing his cell phone.

(Trinidad Express) REDjet flights out of Piarco International Airport were cancelled yesterday as the aircraft was grounded to facilitate engineering inspection and mechanical work.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A Chinese navy hospital ship  called the Peace Ark sailed today into Havana Bay in Cuba,  reflecting good relations between the communist allies and  China’s expanding global presence.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua -The West Indies Cricket Board has offered contracts to 26 players for the year October 2011 – September 2012.

MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s body  lay in an old meat store today as arguments over a burial,  and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya’s  new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter  announced his long-awaited anti-corruption plan today  including a pledge to re-open the case into the collapse of  former marketing partner ISL.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A Venezuelan doctor who  forecast President Hugo Chavez would die of cancer within two  years said today he had left the country with his family  after colleagues reported police visiting his consultancy.

(Trinidad Express) It’s time to take back our communities from criminal elements who have wreaked havoc in our homes and our lives.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – NATO aircraft struck 11  vehicles in an armoured convoy speeding late Libyan leader  Muammar Gaddafi out of his hometown of Sirte yesterday,  although NATO did not know at the time he was in the convoy, it  said in a statement today.

US Customs and Border Protection officers have seized almost four tonnes of marijuana hidden in a shipping container at the Miami seaport, according to the Associated Press.

(De Ware Tijd) WAGENINGEN – Oil company Staatsolie is aiming for a yield of 70 to 85 tons of sugar cane per hectare at its pilot project in Wageningen for the production of ethanol.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five properties valued at millions of dollars and three motor vehicles were among several assets seized yesterday as local and American law-enforcement agencies mounted a coordinated crackdown on an international money-laundering ring.

(Barbados Nation) Top economists Charlie Skeete and Sir Courtney Blackman believe that a wage freeze is necessary and that Government must cut spending on tertiary education by making some parents contribute to their children’s education.

(Barbados Nation) A businessman is taking legal action to prevent the Government from compulsorily acquiring a portion of his land to give to his competitor.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights  office called today for a full investigation into the death  of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and voiced concerns that he may  have been executed.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif  al-Islam is fleeing south from Sirte towards Libya’s border with  Niger, a senior military commander of the interim National  Transitional Council (NTC) said today.

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday formally named Dr Rupert Roopnaraine as its prime ministerial candidate for the elections and unveiled a 24-member leadership team that includes former AFC member Dr Rishee Thakur as well as conservationist Sydney Allicock.