Guyana News

Students of the Rosignol Primary School in Region Five came out in numbers to join in the celebration of Mashramani 2010 with a Children’s Parade last month.

BRUSSELS – EU finance ministers backed plans yesterday by  countries in the euro area to help debt-stricken Greece  financially if it becomes the first state in 11 years of  monetary union to seek such aid.

WILLEMSTAD,  (Reuters) – The leader of the Dutch  Antilles said a base on Curacao used by the United States was  purely for anti-drugs operations though Venezuela has denounced  its use for spying and even threatened to close a refinery.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Pop band Abba was inducted  into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday in a ceremony  that honoured genres from the Swedish group’s catchy tunes to  the theatrical British rock band Genesis and reggae master  Jimmy Cliff.

The Region One (Barima/ Waini) administration has launched an investigation into allegation that up to $4.5 million were advanced off the books to a former official of the Matakai sub-region Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC).

The Medical Council of Guyana is investigating the case of a West Coast Berbice man, who had his stomach cut open to remove a hernia but was stitched up almost ten hours later without the surgery.

Murdered newspaper vendor, Jacqueline George’s throat was slit, an autopsy confirmed yesterday.

Guyanese international recording artiste Eddy Grant may take legal action against a British pop band for pirating one of his hits produced in the 1980s.

– says bauxite workers approached NAACIE General Secretary of NAACIE Kenneth Joseph has rejected recent assertions by officials of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) that his union is in collusion with the administration to destroy the GB&GWU.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday fired its Materials Manager after he was found guilty of breaching the corporation’s procurement procedures in the purchasing electrodes.

– woman still in custody Police are still looking for two other suspects in last Friday’s kidnapping, while the first suspect who was held could be charged today.

Imran Hemraj pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault so as to cause actual bodily harm but he pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious damage to property when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.

– court told A clothes vendor yesterday pleaded not guilty to making use of abusive language to another woman who had been her friend since 2007, when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A labourer was yesterday read a charge of robbery with violence when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

A man alleged to be the second gunman in the Cool Square Bar murder made an appearance yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where he proclaimed his innocence and said he had an alibi.

The  Guyana Agricultural Producers Association  (GAPA)  has denounced statements by Guyana  Trades Union Congress (GTUC) General Secretary Norris Witter, claiming that he has been attempting to politicize the national response to the global El Nino phenomenon.

Over the past months, several Sacre-Coeur Minerals’ em-ployees at its gold mining project here have fallen ill and workers yesterday accused the company of “neglect”, a charge dismissed by its President Gregory Sparks.

Two men were yesterday granted $35,000 bail each after they pleaded not guilty to having three grammes of cannabis in their possession.

-IDB representative The travel time for crossing of the Berbice River has been reduced from 45 minutes by ferry to five minutes using the Berbice Bridge, and according to Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) Country Representative Marco Nicola it is a boost to business activity.

A 42-year-old woman who was accused of trafficking in excess of one gramme of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport was remanded to prison yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton who also gave the prosecution one week to quantify the cocaine.