Guyana News

A woman and her four-year-old son sustained lacerations to their faces when the minibus they were travelling in tipped over on its side and skidded on the wet road on Mash Day.

Forty-nine-year-old Collis Sancho of Grove, East Bank Demerara was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of attempting to murder a man by stabbing him with a knife.

Orlando Harris died from haemorrhaging and shock due to a gunshot injury to the head.

CARICOM Chairman Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica, says he is confident that forging “a new and dynamic level of strategic partnerships” between developing countries and small vulnerable economies could address the common challenges they faced in what he described as a “turbulent era.”

Two 17-year-old boys were remanded to prison while a 15-year-old was ordered to be kept in police custody when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a 12-year-old girl.

An aluminum speedboat valued at $300,000 belonging to the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary/Agricultural-Development-Authority (MMA/ADA) has reportedly been missing for two weeks now and a worker who lives at Gordon Table in the Mahaicony Creek was taken into custody.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia,  (Reuters) – China and India’s  hesitation to back formally a Copenhagen climate agreement could  jeopardise $30 billion in climate aid to the developing world, a  senior European Union official said yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Dubai is hunting for at least 26  people over the killing of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel in  a suspected Israeli operation that has caused a diplomatic  furore.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The human rights wing of the  Organization of American States criticized the concentration of  power and the curbing of civil liberties in Venezuela under the  leftist government of President Hugo Chavez.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda apologized to U.S.

President Bharrat Jagdeo recently accepted Letters of Credence from Aart Jacobi, the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Guyana, at a simple ceremony hosted at State House.

Two men were on Monday placed on $100,000 bail each by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when they appeared in court accused of breaking and entering a shop at Mahdia and stealing a quantity of items worth $129,000.

MILAN, (Reuters) – A Milan court convicted three  Google Inc executives yesterday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being  bullied be posted on the site in 2006.

A huge fire broke out at La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara at 11.40 pm yesterday and at press time three buildings were engulfed and the fire service was desperately trying to save a fourth.

By Tiffny Rhodius The 40th anniversary Mashramani costume band and float parade was a multitude of colours as revellers tramped through Georgetown yesterday, however the long gap between the attractions left many of the onlookers restless.

Three men appeared in a Schenectady, New York court yesterday charged with the Saturday murder of Guyanese Ganesh Ramgoolam and were remanded to prison.

Guyana, Guatemala and Suriname are now members of the Forest -11 (F-11), following the outcome of a Ministerial-level meeting of group members held yesterday in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

-suicide suspected A 74-year-old businessman of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice was found dead in his house around 2:15 pm yesterday and it is believed that he shot himself in the head with his gun.

A 69-year-old resident of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne was struck down by a pick-up while crossing the road around 8:15 pm on Monday and died while receiving treatment at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Two ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) were last evening rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital  (GPHC) following a parachuting mishap.