Guyana News

A clerk attached to the High Court was yesterday placed on a $150,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly forging divorce papers.

A 50-year-old building contractor  pleaded not guilty yesterday to attempting to  commit a felony when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

A block maker who was reportedly entrusted with a million dollars to buy his friend a car yesterday pleaded not guilty to fraudulent conversion when he made an appearance in court yesterday.

-but one local group says it rescued 100 Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir says he is unaware of any project in Guyana that removed 984 children from exploitive child labour but one of the groups involved said it saved 100 from such circumstances.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Congress yesterday  approved tough new unilateral sanctions aimed at squeezing  Iran’s energy and banking sectors, which could also hurt  companies from other countries doing business with Tehran.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Toronto police arrested a man  near the G20 meeting site yesterday whose car contained a  chainsaw, crossbow and fuel containers, but officials said  later the case did not appear to be tied to the summit.

-court hears A man who allegedly conspired to forge a passport so that he could visit his girlfriend in St Vincent was placed on $200,000 bail yesterday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

TORONTO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – World leaders aimed  for a common target yesterday of securing the economic  recovery, but disagreed over how best to reach it.

Caribbean-US Security Cooperation under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) got top priority focus when the Standing Committees of Commissioners of Police and Military Chiefs from across the region met to discuss crime and security issues on Monday at Defence Force Headquarters at  Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago.

-regional chairman laments lack of info from station Full power was restored to Lethem and its surrounding communities after nine days, at approximately 5 pm on Wednesday.

A heavy downpour yesterday left several parts of Georgetown and parts of the coast under water and Guyana is expected to experience frequent periods of rainfall within the next few days.

What could have been a major disaster was averted as Guyana Power and Light workers at the generating station at Versailles, West Bank Demerara acted quickly to put out a fire yesterday.

-local govt minister investigating By Tiffny Rhodius Minister of Local Govern-ment Clinton Collymore is investigating claims by the Good Success/Caledonia Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) that a businessman developing a new housing scheme at New Hope had degraded a dam built to protect the East Bank Dem-erara community from flooding.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Supreme Court yesterday threw into doubt the fraud convictions of former Enron  Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling and ex-media baron Conrad  Black, a setback for the U.S.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai and a team from the ministry recently hosted discussions on governance and selecting Community Development Plans (CDPs) with village officials in Region Two.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – The United States warned Guinea  Bissau yesterday it could not help in international efforts to  reform its armed forces unless they were purged of suspected  leaders of the growing West African drugs trade.

Investigators are examining several areas in last Saturday’s explosion on board the Captain Lloyd 97 fishing trawler in the Atlantic, which left several persons nursing burns while the vessel’s captain remains missing.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Alleged drug kingpin  Christopher “Dudus” Coke was extradited to the United States today, after waiving his right to a trial in Jamaica.

-say smelter was not on agenda President Bharrat Jagdeo and Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar met yesterday in the Twin-Island republic and discussed agriculture and oil cooperation but said that relocating the proposed smelter from the southwestern Trinidad town of La Brea to Guyana was never on the agenda.

The government is mulling the option of providing free transportation to some schools as early as September as part of an initiative to ensure more children attend school punctually and regularly.