Guyana News

Hundreds of passengers booked to travel on regional air carrier LIAT, have been stranded here for a second day in a row as the management of the airline attempts to end the on-going industrial action taken by its pilots.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil suspended yesterday retaliatory measures against U.S. goods over a cotton subsidy  dispute until 2012, temporarily freezing a long-running row  that has demonstrated the South American nation’s trade clout.

18-year-old Jimol Selby has been found, four days after he went missing from his Kuru Kuru home on the Linden/Soesdyke highway, and was expected to be reunited with his mother last evening.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud announced on Wednesday that an additional $20M has been set aside to facilitate training for aquaculture farmers countrywide.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The man suspected of trying  to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square on May 1 was  indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on  terrorism-related charges.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A messy dispute has broken out in  Germany’s Catholic Church after a bishop accused of abusing  minors said his superiors had tricked Pope Benedict into  retiring him and he might ask the Vatican to be reinstated.

-driver remains at large Nearly three weeks after being hit by a speeding driver while waiting on a bus in front of her school, 15-year-old Lisa Mc Farlane remains a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital while the driver of the car remains at large.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters Life!) – U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg,  a frequent visitor to the Netherlands and aficionado of its  readily available marijuana, will not be allowed to perform at a  free concert in The Hague, authorities said yesterday.

Guyana’s High Commissioner to the UK has commended the Guyana Law Association (UK) for a shipment of law books, reports and other legal materials to the local courts and UG Law Department.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – Bollywood came to London yesterday as Indian cinema’s star couple, husband and wife  Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, hit the red carpet for the  world premiere of the Hindi film “Raavan.”

The Guyana Police Force and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have launched an investigation into the 40-pound cocaine bust in New York which originated in Guyana and some suspects have been identified but no arrests have been made, sources said yesterday.

Leaving home late at night with a newly-bought motorcycle for which he was not licensed and speeding around a turn on the Craig Public Road has left 17-year-old Mike Anthony Beepat dead.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday said that all water leaving the Shelter-Belt Treatment Plant is “safe and free of all contaminants” following extensive tests on water samples, almost three weeks after dead fish were first discovered floating in the Lamaha Conservancy.

The ex-headmaster of an Arau school and three others appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday charged separately with having carnal knowledge of underage girls, and  were all remanded to prison.

…as state unable to produce witnesses Prisoner Justin John, who was detained since 2003 and awaiting his High Court trial, was freed yesterday by Justice William Ramlal after the state was unable to produce witnesses in support of its case.

Retiring Assistant Commis-sioner of Police Paul Slowe said he was shocked and is still hurting over the dismissal of Superintendent Simon Mc Bean last year, an officer he described as young and intelligent with a lot to offer the force.

The police report on the investigations into the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kelvin Fraser appears not to have been completed as the force remains silent on the matter.

In continued efforts to improve service to the public, the Immigration and Passport Office will be issuing machine readable passports within five working days of the date of application, the Guyana Police Force announced last evening.

A Guyanese man living legally in the US who was ordered to leave the country by an immigration court following three convictions has won a reprieve following a decision by a US Appeals Court.

Vendors who were selling along the street leading to the Skeldon Market looked on in anguish as the Ministry of Public Works and constables from the Corriverton Town Council dismantled and burnt their stalls yesterday.