Guyana News

Government MPs Dharamkumar Seeraj and Parmanand Persaud have slammed criticisms from the opposition parties regarding the absence of consultations for Budget 2010.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) has registered its disappointment and frustration with the High Court ruling which threw out its election petition, but the party said it intends to respect the rule of law and the judgment.

PNCR parliamentarian Amna Ally has called on the authorities to implement measures to improve the education system, making a renewed call for the authorities to release the annual subventions for the Critchlow Labour College.

Four persons, including a woman who is the number one defendant, were on Tuesday placed on $200,000 bail each by Acting         Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly breaking and entering Ram’s Pharmacy and stealing over $6M in pharmaceuticals.

A Wismar Housing Scheme man was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $10,000 for possession of marijuana at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground for the purpose of trafficking.

Police at Linden are on the hunt for a Lower Kara Kara Mackenzie, Linden man who was sentenced to six months imprisonment after a simple larceny case against him was tried in his absence.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Eight American missionaries left a Haitian jail yesterday after a judge signed an order freeing them, but two of their colleagues were detained for further questioning on charges of kidnapping children.

The Children’s Mashramani Competition and regional events are in full swing with events planned for Friday and Saturday concluding with the national Costume Band and Float Parade on Tuesday.

A man who allegedly pretended to be a customs officer and obtained money on the pretext that he could clear a car from the wharf was ordered in absentia at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court to repay the sum of $350,000 or serve two years in prison.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader accused the United States yesterday of war-mongering and of turning the Gulf into an “arms depot,” hitting back at US accusations that the Islamic state was moving toward a military dictatorship.

– court told A 28-year-old man was yesterday charged with unlawfully wounding his father-in-law who had intervened in a disagreement he was having with his wife.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Critics of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez worry that the main remaining TV station opposed to the socialist leader will water down criticism of the government now that its news director has quit.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a financial and aid package of nearly half a billion dollars yesterday to assist quake-hit Haiti, as he became France’s first head of state to visit the former French Caribbean colony.

A 33-year-old porknocker was placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years after his wife, who he was charged with assaulting told the court that she did not want to prolong the matter.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Pakistani military and a senior US diplomat confirmed yesterday that the Afghan Taliban’s top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, had been captured.

– Justice Chang cites procedural flaw The AFC elections petition case failed to make it past preliminary arguments in the High Court yesterday following a ruling by Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang, which pointed to a procedural flaw in the petition.

Doctors at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) performed an angioplasty on Justice For All party leader CN Sharma yesterday after he complained of feeling unwell.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with second degree murder after he allegedly stabbed his stepfather to death shortly after a heated argument early Sunday morning.

Pain, loss, struggle and questions are what remain with those families whose lives were irreversibly altered when a heavily armed gang invaded Bartica two years ago.

The police and the relatives of the HIV counsellor/tester who was found dead at the Parika Health Centre on Monday are anxiously awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination scheduled for this morning.