Guyana News

Neighbours Natasha Hughes and Dexter Babb appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday to answer charges of threatening behaviour and abusive language respectively.

A minibus conductor was charged with uttering a forged document and forgery when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson in Court One yesterday.

A post-mortem examination (PME) on coal burner Lambert Patrick Clarke who was found dead with marks of violence to his head and neck yesterday revealed that he died from a heart attack.

– court told Taxi driver Dominyk Williams from Melanie Damishana was granted $200,000 bail yesterday when he appeared in Court One on a charge of  larceny from the person allegedly committed in Bartica.

The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department is advising importers, distributors and consumers to be on the lookout for a fake Elizabeth Style product that is currently on the market and to refrain from purchasing it.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Monday dismissed contempt proceedings against Guyana filed by Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) and a subsidiary company, which arose last year when this country failed to reinstate the CET on extra-regional cement following an order of the court.

– Nadir urges attention to improving academic ability More than 50% of employees within the private sector are in their respective jobs for less than four years and the sector has been urged to make a concerted effort to upgrade the academic ability of their workers.

Security company RK’s Security Services yesterday launched its GPS Dragnet Missing Vehicle Recovery System which was lauded by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee as an initiative that will make a meaningful contribution in the fight against crime.

Simone King also known as Diane De Nobrega was yesterday read twelve more counts of fraudulent conversion in a motorcar scam. 

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – International donors  met yesterday to pledge some $4 billion to Haiti, launching  a worldwide effort to rebuild the country after January’s  shattering earthquake.

A 29-year-old man is now an involuntary patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was prevented from boarding a flight at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri by police who suspected that he had swallowed illegal drugs.

OSLO/LONDON, (Reuters) – More than 110 countries  have signed up to the Copenhagen Accord on fighting global  warming, but the United Nations said yesterday their pledges  for cutting greenhouse gas emissions were insufficient.

A nurse attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital appeared last week before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with conspiring to commit a felony and uttering a forged document, with regard to granting her permission to leave the country.

MAKHACHKALA, Russia, (Reuters) – Suicide bombers  killed at least 12 people in Russia’s North Caucasus yesterday, two days after deadly attacks in Moscow that  authorities linked to insurgents from the region.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The Vatican yesterday  attacked The New York Times for its coverage of the sexual abuse  of children by priests, rejecting accusations that Pope Benedict  had mishandled a series of abuse cases before he was elected.

KABUL – U.S. and NATO commanders released details this week  of plans for the biggest offensive of the nearly 9-year-old  Afghan war, to seize control of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s  second-largest city and birthplace of the Taliban.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will cement energy and arms ties with Latin America when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin travels to Caracas this week to meet two of the United States’ biggest foes, Venezuelan and Bolivian Presidents Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales.

A coal burner was discovered dead on Monday night on a bridge about one mile from his home with marks of violence to his head and neck.

-but scepticism abounds PNCR leader Robert Corbin’s decision against running as its presidential candidate at next year’s general elections is being seen as an opportunity to reverse the fortunes of the main opposition, and a possible opening for an alliance to challenge the ruling PPP/C.

-residents demand probe Saying she was demon possessed, a pastor and several church members on Sunday “treated” a 14-year-old girl for hours by pounding her stomach until she bled.