Guyana News

-Jagdeo says better use must be made of human resources The traditional focus of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will have to be shifted to ensure the better use of the country’s resources, Com-mander-in-Chief President Bharrat Jagdeo said.

Members of the joint services who are bent on committing criminal acts will be booted out, Commodore Gary Best said yesterday as he implored leaders of the forces to act now and “stop protecting underachievers”.

-Persaud tells Parliament committee The proposal for a six-month notification period before mining can commence came out of a meeting of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission (GLSC) and the Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA), Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud disclosed yesterday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday  ruled that a prima facie case had been made out against the two prison officers who are accused of the 2008 murder of Edwin Niles and their case was transferred to the High Court for trial.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti appealed to  foreign governments and charities yesterday to do more to  help earthquake victims as rescuers pulled a teenage girl out  of the rubble 15 days after her Port-au-Prince home collapsed  around her.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – President Mahinda Rajapaksa won  Sri Lanka’s first post-war national election on Wednesday, but his rival alleged vote-rigging from inside an hotel surrounded  by soldiers which he said were sent to arrest him.

A 62-year-old businessman of Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder (BBP) sustained gunshot injuries to his foot when four armed bandits invaded his home around 7:20 last evening.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that a Linden woman serve four years imprisonment when she admitted being found with a quantity of cannabis.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Researchers have genetically  engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet — E. 

The Weldaad, West Coast Berbice (WCB) mother whose three-week-old baby was drowned in a canal close to her home on Monday was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Toppled Honduran president  Manuel Zelaya emerged from months holed up in a Brazilian embassy  compound and flew into exile yesterday, ending a months-long  political crisis as Honduras swore in a new president.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former Democratic  presidential candidate John Edwards and his cancer-stricken  wife, Elizabeth, have separated following reports that he  fathered a child with a woman who was a former campaign aide.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a boy who is now 17-years-old,  who was charged with carnally knowing a 15-year-old girl when she was 13, be kept in police custody shortly after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A teenage girl was pulled alive from under a collapsed house in Port-au-Prince today, 15 days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. troops pulled a man  alive from under a collapsed building in Haiti’s capital yesterday as U.N.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that petitions are routinely made to him and the one that led to the granting of a mining licence to his presidential advisor Odinga Lumumba was a “reinstatement” which benefited from the advice of Prime Minister Sam Hinds.

“Rich” miners have embarked on a $30M campaign to get other miners to oppose the government’s plans for reforms including a six-month notice prior to the commencement of mining.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 14-year-old girl be kept in police custody when she appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of the murder of another female at Port Kaituma, North West District last year.

The suspect who was held in the brutal killing of Nalini “Nalo” Bhoge at her Line Path, Skeldon home on Monday is still in custody at the Springlands station as police continue their investigations.

Justice Franklin Holder yesterday ordered a stay in the CLICO (Guyana) winding-up proceedings in the High Court until a constitutional writ filed by the company is determined.