Guyana News

A building contractor who was charged with obtaining by false pretence was granted time yesterday to pay back in full $250,000 that he took from one Rudolph Baldeo with the intent to defraud.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Since Haiti’s earthquake  struck, the clientele at the Muncheez pizza joint has been  transformed — the affluent professionals are gone, replaced by  lines of people being quietly kept alive with free meals from  the restaurant chain’s owners. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Angry crowds mobbed  three food distribution sites in Haiti’s capital yesterday,  the latest handouts to turn chaotic as aid groups struggle to  help the throngs left desperate and hungry by the catastrophic  earthquake.  

A 34-year-old Linden man who is accused of the possession of cannabis will be spending the next few weeks behind bars after he was refused bail by Magistrate Ann McLennan when he appeared before her at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.

Dexter Daniels, 40,  of Lot 98 Kara Kara Scheme, Mackenzie, Linden appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan on Wednesday at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on a charge of break and enter and larceny while still on a one-year bond.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  vowed yesterday he would not rest until U.S.

An Annai man, for whom an arrest warrant was issued for assaulting a policeman, was on Wednesday shot in the leg after he attempted to escape from a policeman who arrested him in connection with a recent break-and-enter incident.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Former French Prime Minister  Dominique de Villepin was cleared yesterday of plotting to  smear his old rival Nicolas Sarkozy, dealing a stinging blow to  the president who never made a secret of their enmity.  

Ewart Forester was on Wednesday placed on $70,000 bail when he appeared on a dangerous driving charge before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.

HOLT, England, (Reuters Life!) – A seven-year-old  British boy is being hailed as an art genius after selling 16  paintings for 18,000 pounds ($29,280) in just 14 minutes.  

An alleged cow thief was placed on $50,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan police used tear gas  to disperse students protesting chronic electricity shortages  as leftist President Hugo Chavez faced growing complaints over  deteriorating public services. 

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Reclusive U.S. author J.D.  Salinger, who wrote the American literary classic “The Catcher  in the Rye,” has died in New Hampshire aged 91, his agent said  yesterday.  

A 19-year-old man of 1409 Amelia’s Ward, Linden was sentenced to three months imprisonment after he admitted carrying offensive weapons.

Amidst growing concern over a government proposal for a six-month waiting period before mining can commence, Barticians plan to shut down the mining town on Monday, February 1st in protest.

– car found at herstelling Persons searching for missing taxi driver, Bomeshwar Sukhdeo, yesterday stumbled upon a badly burnt corpse at the side of the road leading to Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara, believed to be his.

The owner of Ezee Runnings taxi service who was shot in the chest while fending off robbers, succumbed to serious internal injuries early yesterday morning and in the wake of his death, relatives called for those responsible to be brought to justice.

Some sugar workers on the Albion and Wales estates yesterday went on strike as the stormy relationship between the workers and GuySuCo on the annual production incentive and other matters continues.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit supervisor who was implicated in the passing of a suitcase with 50lbs of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was yesterday taken into custody by the police.

Guyana would be prepared to support a regional initiative to relocate survivors of the Haitian earthquake, according to President Bharrat Jagdeo, who also says the country’s homes and hospitals would be open to children that need care.