Guyana News

-urged to focus on youth The Guyana Calypso Association was officially launched last Sunday and a call was made for more young people to get involved in the art form.

-arson suspected A woman is now homeless after a fire destroyed her house at Parfait-Harmonie, West Bank Demerara early yesterday morning.

Quancy John, the policeman charged with killing Patentia schoolboy Kelvin Fraser, made his second court appearance at the Wales Magistrates’ Court yesterday and was further remanded until August 5.

Justice Ian Chang granted an alleged drug trafficker a total of $750,000 bail after he had been remanded to prison following his denial of two counts of possession and one charge of cultivating marijuana.

SHANGHAI/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – China gave Google Inc  approval to keep operating its Chinese search page, resolving a  months-long censorship dispute that had threatened its future  in the world’s top Internet market.  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber on  a motorbike killed at least 56 people, including women and  children, in an attack in a volatile Pashtun region on the  Afghan border yesterday, officials said. 

PARIS, (Reuters) – An upstart online news service has  led the way in investigating France’s latest political funding  scandal, defying President Nicolas Sarkozy’s efforts to stamp  his influence on the media. 

MOSCOW/VIENNA, (Reuters) – Russia and the United  States conducted the biggest spy swap since the Cold War yesterday, trading agents on the Vienna airport tarmac in an  evocative climax to an espionage drama that had threatened  improving ties.  

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security  Council yesterday condemned an attack leading to the sinking of  a South Korean warship in March, but stopped short of directly  blaming North Korea.

-mattresses torched Fire-fighters were summoned to the Georgetown Prisons yesterday afternoon after several inmates set mattresses ablaze in the western section of the facility.

–asks Washington for evidence Caricom leaders have expressed deep concern about the US continually placing several of the region’s countries in the Tier 2 Watch list of its Trafficking in Persons (TIPs) annual report as countries that are placed in this category for three consecutive years will be subjected to sanctions.

Armed pirates attacked and robbed the captains and crew members of two fishing boats just off the shore at Whim, Corentyne on Wednesday night and later set one of the boats valued over $1.5M on fire.

The Melanie Damishana man whose fence caused the death of a fifteen-year- old boy on Monday was yesterday charged with manslaughter and released on $250,000 bail.

Three men have been arrested for the murder of Allan Welch who was beaten to death at 14 Miles Issano on Tuesday.

The Preliminary Inquiry into the first witness tampering charge against Chandra Narine Sharma did not get underway as scheduled yesterday as Special Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin made an application for the magistrate to recuse herself from the matter.

– alleged plotter says in taped conversation One of the men accused of planning to blow up New York’s John F.

Five police ranks, returning from the funeral of slain colleague Vickram Singh, sustained minor injuries last evening after their bus was hit by another around the Mahaica, East Coast Demerara area.

Still grieving over the loss of their son in a horrific smash-up at Craig last month the parents of Anthony Beepat were terrorised by bandits at their Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara home early yesterday morning.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has been named to a committee within Caricom which will review proposals on regional governance ahead of a key meeting in September.

The ‘Plastic City’, West Coast Demerara carpenter who was battered by robbers early Sunday morning and later succumbed in the hospital died of congestive heart failure due to a diabetic condition, an autopsy found yesterday.