Guyana News

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – An email “phishing” fraud  against the European Union’s greenhouse gas Emissions Trading  Scheme (ETS) has prompted the executive European Commission to  revise its Internet security guidelines, the Commission said.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) yesterday slammed newspaper ads that it said were distorting environmental issues and it also called for solidarity to ensure what it said was the “survival” of the mining industry.

– several villages flooded Persons living along parts of the Essequibo Coast, including farmers are counting their losses following a high tide which caused severe overtopping and crumbled sea defence infrastructure there over the past several days.

Around two dozen persons who thought they were going to seal a good deal paid down hundreds of thousands for cars which are yet to be delivered and the woman who dealt with them has since disappeared.

The aunt and uncle of three-year-old Charran ‘Sanjay’ Sahadeo were refused bail when they appeared before Magistrate Nigel Hawke at the Blairmont Court yesterday charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.

As arid El Nino conditions continue, the Ministry of Agriculture announced yesterday that government has spent in excess of $250M since the phenomenon began and with reduced water levels, pumps in several regions have been activated on a 20-hour-basis costing $3.2M daily.

…says finally finished with him After Sandra Parks asked her live-in boyfriend to use the indoor toilet he became enraged, began beating her with a piece of wood and then almost severed her right foot with a cutlass.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held talks about strengthening Russian-Latin American and Caribbean relations when they met recently in Moscow.

A potentially catastrophic occurrence was avoided last evening when a fire which ignited at the popular Pepper’s Brazilian Restaurant was quickly extinguished before any major damage was done.

-two sets of men in ‘big brawl’By Cathy Richards Police are investigating an incident at Linden which started after members of a community policing group (CPG) were accused of assaulting a young man they claimed was acting suspiciously.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it has observed several acts of trespassing at its Central Ruimveldt Water Treatment Plant compound and advised persons to desist as the area is fraught with hidden dangers.

– court told Thirty-one-year-old Lakeram Ramcharitar of Grove, East Bank Demerara was placed on $85,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly converting to his own use a quantity of raw gold and cash given to him by a woman to deliver to a man.

The New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) yesterday signed a $66.28M contract for the procurement of cold storage facilities for farmers.

Three men are in police custody following an armed robbery committed on residents at a Duncan Street, Campbellville home yesterday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday placed a 29-year-old father of two on bail in the sum of $400,000 when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly embezzling over $2.48M from Beepats on Regent Street.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – More than 200,000 people  were killed in the Jan.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Sitting at a table under  billowing bed sheets, David Delva tries to compile a list of  around 12,000 people who now live in an open field below a  hillside slum that collapsed in Haiti’s Jan.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 41-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly using a gun to threaten a taxi-driver.

TIMERGARA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Taliban  claimed responsibility for a bomb yesterday that killed  three U.S.

Three women who are neighbours were each placed on $20,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Tuesday after they each pleaded not guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm.