Guyana News

BANGKOK – More than 50,000 protesters defied orders to  leave the Thai capital’s main shopping district on Sunday  despite threats of mass arrests, raising the stakes in the  fourth week of street rallies against the government.

The Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce elected a new executive body at its AGM held at the Guysuco Skeldon Estate two Sundays ago.

-in exchange of gunfire Members of a mobile police patrol after an exchange of gunfire on Thursday night fatally shot a Corriverton man who was before the courts on armed robbery charges and for whom three arrest warrants had been issued.

As the government moves ahead with the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Power Project (AFHEP), questions have been raised about the recent decision to award the contract for preparatory infrastructural work on the site identified for the plant to US-based firm Synergy Holdings Inc.

Police used the ‘Fineman’ gang as a convenient excuse to avoid a real investigation into the murder of former minister Satyadeow Sawh, his siblings and a security guard, according to PNCR Shadow Home Affairs Minister Deborah Backer.

An unknown taxi driver struck and killed a young Diamond mother on Friday night a short distance from her home and then managed to flee the area after a brief chase.

-mandatory registration urged Justice of the Peace (JP) Herman Bholaisingh has admitted that recent criticisms directed at JPs are legitimate, and he is calling for compulsory registration as a first step towards regulation.

ALBUSAIFI, Iraq (Reuters) – Gunmen wearing military  uniforms stormed a Sunni Muslim village near Baghdad and killed  24 people, some of them former insurgents who turned against al  Qaeda, Iraqi authorities said yesterday.

– lawyers approach plea bargaining warily By Iana Seales Plea bargaining legislation was touted as a critical tool which the authorities needed to garner greater success in prosecutions in this country, but since its passage almost a year ago the state is yet to conclude a single deal and there are just two cases in the pipeline, as lawyers have been wary about employing it.

KABUL (Reuters) – The upper house of Afghanistan’s  parliament backed a decree by President Hamid Karzai yesterday  that limits foreigners’ role in elections, giving him a victory  in a dispute that has led to a quarrel with the White House.

A Riverview seaman was last evening discovered floating near a Demerara River wharf with a suspicious wound in the head and the police believe that he was fatally injured during a botched   robbery on a ship several days earlier.

BISHKEK (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon called on Kyrgyzstan to protect human rights yesterday  after protesters shouted “help us” as he drove to the Central  Asian state’s parliament.

The special committee set up to examine an appeal by University of Guyana (UG) lecturer Evan Radhay Persaud, who is accused of victimising students, is yet to complete its work and there are concerns about its objectivity.

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal inaugurated its giant ‘African Renaissance’ monument yesterday, brushing aside  complaints that the $28 million personal project of President  Abdoulaye Wade was a waste of money and un-Islamic.

Two men who reportedly committed an armed robbery on a business place at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice last Thursday were arrested with an unlicensed weapon and the stolen booty following a police chase.

LONDON (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church in  Ireland has lost all credibility over its response to a child  sex abuse scandal, the Anglican Communion’s spiritual leader  told Britain’s state broadcaster.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African white  far-right leader Eugene Terre’blanche, who fought to prevent the  end of apartheid in the early 1990s, was beaten and hacked to  death at his farm yesterday, his party said.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister  Vladimir Putin gave the United States’ main Latin American foe,  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a needed boost with a brief  visit yesterday to discuss oil, defense and nuclear energy  cooperation.

-says donors must do more for transparency PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray is advocating a code to guide the conduct of ministers, as part of a concerted approach to rein in what he described as rampant corruption within government.

Businessman and former race car driver Peter Morgan, who was earlier this year sentenced to ten years in a New York Court for drug trafficking, has filed a notice of appeal seeking a 33-month deduction from his sentence.