Guyana News

A Quik Serv, Camp Street  patron discovered an unidentified man lying unconscious in the men’s room last night.

A Brazilian in the Rupununi and a Venezuelan at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri were charged separately with trafficking in narcotics when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday.

The Pamela Bourne UG Environmental Enhancement Project – Donate A Tree is inviting the public to purchase trees that will be used to beautify the Turkeyen Campus.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda Prime  Minister Baldwin Spencer has been hit by a legal challenge that  could loosen or bring a sudden end to his hold on power in the  Caribbean country.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Science writer Simon Singh, who  is being sued for libel over an article he wrote about  chiropractors, won yesterday what campaigners said was an  important legal right to use fair comment as a defence.

Several city streets will be closed to vehicular traffic on Easter Monday between 09:00 hours and 20:00 hours to facilitate kite flying activities.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British scientists studying the  genetics of ageing said yesterday that experiments on  laboratory worms showed that a specific gene is strongly linked  to lifespan, immunity and disease resistance.

Dear Editor, During 1998 the Epidemiology Research Unit of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies conducted a study on the perceptions and experiences of violence among secondary school students in Kingston, Jamaica, and its environs. 

Ministers of Government have been attempting to clear their travel advances with the necessary officials  ever since the matter was highlighted in the media,  Auditor General (ag) Deodat Sharma says.

BISSAU, (Reuters) – Soldiers briefly held  Guinea-Bissau’s prime minister yesterday and ousted the army  chief of staff in the latest bout of military infighting to hit  a country that is a major drugs trafficking hub to Europe.

By Tiffny Rhodius The Easter weekend is upon us and soon the sky will be ablaze with all shapes and colours of kites.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING – The United States yesterday welcomed  China’s decision to join talks on imposing new sanctions on Iran  and said President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington this month  could set the stage for tougher action on Tehran.

-several charged Most of the persons held during joint services raids in several parts of the city last week have been released while the others were charged with various offences and passed through the courts.

-police question pastor An autopsy yesterday failed to determine the cause of Sangeeta Persaud’s death and as police questioned the pastor who did an “exorcism” hours before the girl died on Sunday, members of his congregation defended him and said the accusations stem from a religious conflict in the community.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday attended a high-level meeting in London on how US$100 billion annually for developing countries by 2020 can be raised, as agreed in the recent Copenhagen Accord.

At the end of a two-day strike yesterday at GuySuCo’s Plantation Diamond, the corporation said that severance pay for those workers “is not an option”.

-2008 report presented to Speaker Continued abuse of the Contingency Fund, overpayment of contractors and flouting of the requirement to present log books and vouchers are among the main issues highlighted in the 2008 Auditor General Report, Acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma says.

Saying the public interest is paramount even though the accused has certain expressed fundamental rights, Attorney General Charles Ramson yesterday dismissed criticisms directed at the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Bill.

The police last evening issued an arrest warrant for a 61-year-old man who they said is wanted for questioning in relation to forgery.

Sean Williams, 39, of 49 Riverview Housing Scheme, Mahaica was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly raping a woman.