Guyana News

A 43-year-old mother of six of Seven Miles Potaro, Essequibo, was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court for allegedly attempting to murder a man by stabbing him to his abdomen.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 13-year-old girl be kept in police custody when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of the murder of a man last year December.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) and the IAST have expedited a pilot project that aims to determine whether used tyres mixed with bitumen and used as a surface treatment for deck plates can increase skid resistance.

Guyana and Kuwait yesterday engaged in a second round of negotiations to finalize an agreement regarding the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion.

Two Guyana Defence Force soldiers recently returned from earthquake shattered Haiti where they spent three weeks as part of the efforts of the Caribbean Disaster Relief Unit (CDRU) to bring relief to the nation.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran says that an investigation into allegations by AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan that the Parliamentary Hansard of a recent contentious sitting had been tampered with, have proven otherwise.

Consideration of the 2010 Estimates of Expenditure by the Committee of Supply got underway yesterday in the National Assembly with the Opposition MPs asking testing questions about the $1.6 billion budgeted for the development of the Information and Communication Techno-logy (ICT) sector.

–only son was killed in shoot-out with cops By Shabna Ullah Dorothy Drepaul-Mangrie, 68, whose body was discovered in a trench at Maida Farm, Corentyne earlier this month had reportedly become mentally unstable after her only son, wanted for several murders, had been killed by the police during a shoot-out.

A woman and her four-year-old son sustained lacerations to their faces when the minibus they were travelling in tipped over on its side and skidded on the wet road on Mash Day.

Forty-nine-year-old Collis Sancho of Grove, East Bank Demerara was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of attempting to murder a man by stabbing him with a knife.

Orlando Harris died from haemorrhaging and shock due to a gunshot injury to the head.

CARICOM Chairman Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica, says he is confident that forging “a new and dynamic level of strategic partnerships” between developing countries and small vulnerable economies could address the common challenges they faced in what he described as a “turbulent era.”

Two 17-year-old boys were remanded to prison while a 15-year-old was ordered to be kept in police custody when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a 12-year-old girl.

An aluminum speedboat valued at $300,000 belonging to the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary/Agricultural-Development-Authority (MMA/ADA) has reportedly been missing for two weeks now and a worker who lives at Gordon Table in the Mahaicony Creek was taken into custody.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia,  (Reuters) – China and India’s  hesitation to back formally a Copenhagen climate agreement could  jeopardise $30 billion in climate aid to the developing world, a  senior European Union official said yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Dubai is hunting for at least 26  people over the killing of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel in  a suspected Israeli operation that has caused a diplomatic  furore.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The human rights wing of the  Organization of American States criticized the concentration of  power and the curbing of civil liberties in Venezuela under the  leftist government of President Hugo Chavez.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda apologized to U.S.

President Bharrat Jagdeo recently accepted Letters of Credence from Aart Jacobi, the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Guyana, at a simple ceremony hosted at State House.

Two men were on Monday placed on $100,000 bail each by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when they appeared in court accused of breaking and entering a shop at Mahdia and stealing a quantity of items worth $129,000.