Guyana News

A 29-year-old woman yesterday initially pleaded not guilty to maliciously damaging the trafficator of a motorcycle belonging to Dr Cheddi Jagan Jr but she subsequently admitted her guilt.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country-pop starlet Taylor Swift, who rocketed to stardom with ballads of teen love that she wrote on her bedroom floor, on Sunday became the youngest artist to win the coveted Grammy for album of the year.

– GWI urges city The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is appealing to its Georgetown-based customers to be prudent in their water use as the prolonged dry season that is affecting many parts of the country has resulted in a significant decrease in the water level at the Lamaha Canal.

A 20-year-old miner was yesterday fined $10,000 or six months imprisonment for using threatening language towards a Stabroek News photographer.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian authorities questioned a group of 10 American missionaries yesterday who are accused of illegally trying to take children out of the quake-shattered Caribbean country.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil granted an environmental licence yesterday for the construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

– Caricom heads told “Empower us now for the survival of the community,” Dominica’s Monelle Alexis, Dean of the Caricom Youth Ambassador Corps told Caribbean Community leaders at the Special Summit of Heads of Government on Youth Develop-ment.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A US attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile mimicking an attack from Iran failed after a malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon Co, the Defense Department said.

Japan has pledged a total of US$70million in aid to support current relief and recovery efforts in Haiti.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese state media blasted the United States yesterday for a planned $6.4 billion arms package for Taiwan but US officials said they hoped the flap would be temporary and not derail cooperation.

The Guyana Rastafari Council and Rastafarian Community of Guyana will host a benefit concert for Haiti on Saturday and the proceeds are expected to be channelled through the national relief effort.

Veteran male vocalist Kamta Persaud emerged the winner of the Melody King Singing Competition held on Saturday at the Wales Community Centre Ground.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim went on trial today on charges of sodomy for the second time in a decade in a case that was being closely watched by foreign embassies.

Amid a row between the government and miners over a six-month notice period, the associations representing prospectors and foresters have agreed there is no real land use conflict between them.

A three-year-old boy was admitted a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital on Saturday after he was brutally beaten by a relative and later reportedly abandoned at the home of an aunt at Blairmont, West Bank Berbice.

Police detained a MMC security guard following the fatal shooting of an unidentified man early yesterday morning on Eping Avenue.

By Cathy Richards She was seven months pregnant. No less. But Antigua-based Guyanese, Tomeka Thomas did not let this hinder her stage performance as she set the Mackenzie Sports Club alight to secure her spot in the finals of the 2010 Soca Monarch competition in Linden on Saturday.

-four arrestedBandits pounced on a Mahaica businessman on Saturday night, beating and robbing him of $3M.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s Musa Disease Management Unit has commenced an intensified spraying exercise  to deal with a disease affecting banana and plantain farms located at Zeelugt West and Tuschen Backdam in Region Three.

AFC leader Raphael Trotman is urging the withdrawal of the proposal for a six-month notice before mining can commence, while saying he is concerned that the government is on a trajectory to stifle both the existing forestry and mining sectors, which could put over 50,000 out of work.