Guyana News

A Swiss House Cambio cashier was on Monday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for reportedly fraudulently converting monies to his own use and benefit.

A fifty-year-old farmer from the village of Paramakatoi was yesterday remanded on two counts of the indictable charge of carnal knowledge of girls under the age of 15.

A 57-year-old Moruka miner was yesterday remanded on the indictable charge of carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 15 by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

A clothes vendor and a construction worker were yesterday placed on $50,000 bail each when they appeared on a robbery with violence charge before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Five of the 10 American  Baptist missionaries accused of illegally trying to take  children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti left their jail  cells temporarily to plead their case to a judge yesterday.

Two mobile music vendors were placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday  after they pleaded guilty to making loud and continuous noise.

Caricom and Haiti Youth Ambassador Leticia Cadet asked a special meeting of COHSOD to make rebuilding Haiti’s education system a priority “to avoid creating a potentially detrimental gap in qualified human resources.”

EIJING/WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama still  plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said yesterday,  despite China’s warning that such a meeting would hurt ties  already strained by U.S.

By Gaulbert Sutherland and Mark McGowanThousands of Region Seven residents rallied in Bartica yesterday to protest government proposals they say will destroy the gold mining industry and with it their livelihoods.

By Mark McGowan and Gaulbert Sutherland Annie, 75, has lived in Bartica all her life.

-relatives suspect foul play The skeletal remains of a man missing since New Year’s Day were discovered yesterday in the bushy backdam of New Hope, East Bank Demerara and his relatives believe he was the victim of foul play.

An aunt and uncle of the three-year-old boy, who was hospitalised after a savage beating, have been taken into police custody, while the child’s condition is improving.

-burnt body still to be positively identified Two East Bank Demerara residents were yesterday charged with the murder of taxi driver Bomeshwar Sukhdeo, although there has been no positive identification of the badly burnt corpse discovered in Mocha last week.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds is defending the controversial six months prior notice proposal that has miners and loggers up in arms, saying it would give miners and forest lease holders with operations in a relative area enough time to sort themselves out before beginning operations.

Vickram Persaud, who was not required to plead to the charge of robbery under arms earlier, made another appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday and was allowed to plead after the Administration of Justice Act (AJA) was applied.

Fire of unknown origin flattened a one-flat shack at Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice yesterday, leaving a woman and her son homeless.

A mid-afternoon accident on Sheriff Street yesterday, involving a truck and a car left one person nursing injuries, which were said to be critical.

“I give you my apology, My Worship. This is my second and last time,” said Joseph Williams before being sentenced to 16 months in jail for breaking and entering the house of his friend and stealing a bottle of Alize and a large bottle of vodka.

Residents of Profitt/Foulis, West Coast Berbice have suggested that members of the policing groups in the area should be placed at the various stations to assist the police officers.

Caricom yesterday reiterated the call for a halt to the shipment of hazardous waste through the Caribbean and expressed “gravest concern” at the likelihood that a new shipment of Vitrified High Level Waste will soon leave the United Kingdom for Japan transiting the Caribbean Sea.