Guyana News

Kesan Azore was read the capital charge of murder when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday. 

– probe launched The police are currently conducting investigations into the alleged theft of a gold pendant by a policeman attached to the Alberttown Police Station.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme’s government collapsed yesterday after the Flemish liberal party pulled out of his five-month-old coalition, causing a crisis that could damage its fragile economy.

Police are investigating the discovery of an unlicensed firearm with matching rounds in a car during an operation on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Wednesday night.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The IMF sought to maintain unity within the Group of 20 economic powers yesterday, urging countries not to go separate ways in reforming the financial sector, as frictions emerged over a controversial plan to tax banks.

The PPP said it believes the Alliance For Change (AFC) is an “anti-workers party” and its interest in the industrial relations issue in the sugar industry is “a cheap political act aimed at destabilizing the sugar industry.”

ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguay’s president asked Congress yesterday to impose emergency measures in the north of the country where police and soldiers are hunting for members of an armed leftist group, officials said.

No one has been arrested in connection with the suspected murder of Eccles, East Bank Demerara businessman Junior Richards whose body was found in his home with injuries to the head on Wednesday morning.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities raided eight drug laboratories near the Colombian border yesterday, seizing 4.5 tonnes of cocaine in one of the largest hauls in recent times, the interior minister said.

The dead body of a city businessman was yesterday morning discovered with multiple wounds to the head at his Eccles, East Bank Demerara home.

Broadcaster and Justice for All Party leader Chandra Narine Sharma was yesterday released on $2M bail, after a brief stay in the Georgetown Prison.

A mechanic who went to a wake ended up dead leaving relatives perplexed after they found his body splayed out on a parapet in his East Coast Demerara (ECD) village.

The state will be seeking the forfeiture of the local assets of Guyanese convicted of narcotic offences in the US, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday, saying that evidence in those cases would also be used to conclude criminal investigations.

A modern airport rescue and fire fighting vehicle was yesterday handed over to the Timehri Fire Station to boost its capacity to tackle aircraft fires at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

– clean up Guyana The government has embark-ed on a robust exercise in an effort to clean up the country and bring Georgetown back to its glory days when it was referred to as “the Garden city”, according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon.

A 63-year-old woman is thanking God for sparing her life after she came away from a vehicular accident with a broken arm.

In a bid to clear the air on the land it currently occupies at Mandela Avenue, the Guyana Muslim Mission-Masjid Muhammad said yesterday that it made no deal with Presidential Advisor Odinga Lumumba for the land, but instead resolved the issue with government.

President Bharrat Jagdeo told Korean investors yesterday that Guyana is ready to provide tax benefits to any foreign business that invests in the development of resource mining and the country’s enterprises, according to a report in The Korean Times.

The Guyana International Relief Organization (GIRO) has helped to make the blood bank at the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) richer by raising145 units through three donation drives.

The mother of the child at the centre of sexual allegations made against television broadcaster Chandra Narine Sharma has been handed over to the police after visiting the Ministry of Human Service & Social Security on Tuesday.