Guyana News

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s unity government has  suspended and will review rules forcing foreign-owned firms in  Zimbabwe to sell a majority stake to local people, a spokesman  for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A US judge yesterday  ordered a rural Mississippi school district to comply with a  nearly 40-year-old order and halt long-disputed practices that  led to racial segregation in its schools.

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish intellectuals and trade  unionists yesterday protested against the indictment of a judge  who launched an inquiry into some 100,000 killings committed  during Spain’s Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship of  Francisco Franco.

-first conviction under new law A former Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) employee was yesterday found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to seven years in prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, becoming the first person convicted under the new law.

Fifty workers from GuySuCo’s Blairmont Estate were injured early yesterday morning, after the truck they were travelling in hit two horses at Bohemia, Corentyne and ended up in a canal.

A Federal Court Judge in Canada has denied a bid for refugee status by a Guyanese man, who claimed he would face discrimination and ethnic violence if he returned here.

Howard Eastman, the Former British, Commonwealth and European middleweight champion, was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with trafficking in narcotics.

-Canadian company emphasises environmental, worker safety Guyana may soon be one of the world’s uranium suppliers if a Canada-based company finds at least 50 million pounds of the radioactive material in Region Eight, a spokeswoman for the company said yesterday.

Wainwright Telford, 48, called ‘Baker,’ of Angoys Avenue, New Amsterdam, was remanded to prison yesterday, following an appearance before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, at the New Amsterdam Court on a charge of murder.

Two cousins were yesterday charged with attempted murder and placed on $250,000 bail.

The proprietor of Caribbean Temptation Restaurant has been placed on bail after being charged with giving false information last Friday.

Steps are underway to increase the fee to be paid for taking stray animals to the pound.

A man was refused bail yesterday when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton charged with robbery-under-arms.

Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur is urging businesses and members of the public who are dissatisfied with the service received when clearing goods at Customs to seek redress.

-another still in custody One of the two East Coast Demerara businessmen held in connection with last week’s execution of salt fish exporter Rajendra Motilall Sonilall was released from custody yesterday.

A Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice grocer was held at gun point on Saturday by three men who posed as customers.

The Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) is refuting allegations of internal corruption, saying that procurement of items is done in accordance with statutory procedures.

An autopsy conducted yesterday on Devi ‘Tina’ Mangal, the six-year-old girl who West Canje, Berbice girl who died last week, but pathologist Dr.

By Tiffny Rhodius An accident along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway on Sunday night left a man dead and his family worrying where it will come up with the money to bury him.

-audit office At the end of 2008, some 117 advances totaling $25.543 million were not cleared by officials travelling on the public purse, the Auditor General’s report for that year reveals.