Guyana News

Fifty-two-year-old Terrence James of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, was on Monday granted bail in the sum of $25,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court after being accused of stealing a quantity of wood from his employer.

A man is to be charged after police saw him pointing a gun at another man at Rahaman’s Park, East Bank Demerara on Tuesday.

Two security guards, one of whom is the acting supervisor, attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are expected to appear in court today charged with assaulting each other following a fight over a television set at the hospital’s East Street compound.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agreed “in principle” to Brazilian mediation to revive a UN-brokered nuclear fuel swap deal with world powers, the semi-official Fars news agency said yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The suspected Times Square bomber is cooperating with investigators who want details about his contacts in Pakistan, postponing indefinitely any court appearance, law enforcement sources said yesterday.

The Guyana Rastafarian Council is organising a march today to draw attention to what it said is the inability of the community to openly practice its culture.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Police investigating an investment scam in Sudan’s Darfur region have collected bounced cheques and receipts for up to $27 million and arrested 58 people, the justice minister said yesterday.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Monday ordered that a 16-year-old boy be remanded to police custody when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court charged with being in unlawful possession of a gun and a quantity of ammunition.

Deo Teixeira was on Monday sentenced to three years imprisonment when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court after he admitted that he had a quantity of cannabis in his pants pocket.

VENICE – Workers toiled above and below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico yesterday to plug a gushing oil leak and protect the US shoreline in one of the biggest spill containment efforts ever mounted.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Monday placed a 59-year-old man on self-bail when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing over $1M in truck parts from another man.

Barakara Falls, a tourist attraction on the Mazaruni River, are under threat from quarry operations in the environs according to tour operators, who are calling on the company responsible to protect the area before it is destroyed entirely.

A man, who allegedly pretended to be a pastor, was yesterday arraigned on rape and robbery charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

–but slam media reports for speculation The mother-in-law of Bridgette Gangadin, whose mangled body was found on the Vigilance Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), yesterday admitted that her son abused his wife, but said he had promised several times to change his behaviour.

Globe Trust liquidator Nizam Ali said the “beginning of the end” is approaching for the failed institution as he will soon file the required Schedule of Steps in court, which signals the process is wrapping up and places depositors on notice.

Guyanese Dellon Williams, who was sentenced last week to five years in prison for having sex with a minor and impregnating her in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), got a reprieve yesterday after the Judge in the case found her initial sentence to be too harsh.

An argument over marijuana between two men ended in one of them being shot in both legs and while seeking medical treatment his problems worsened when he was arrested on a warrant for a gun-related incident.

-taxi driver on $300,000 bail Brian Hubbard, who is a driver and a mechanic at the Ministry of Education, was yesterday charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

The Alexander Village Muslim leader, who is accused of having carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl, made another court appearance yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A woman was arrested at the John F Kennedy International Airport after allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine into the US on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Guyana last Thursday.