Guyana News

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United States and  United Nations signed an agreement yesterday clarifying the  world body’s responsibility for coordinating the international  relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

-City warns The Mayor and City Council has registered disappointment over the continued dumping of waste at illegal sites, compromising waterways and creating unsightly heaps.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain raised its international  terrorism threat level to ‘severe’ — its second highest level  of terror alert — from ‘substantial’ yesterday, Home Secretary  (interior minister) Alan Johnson said.

…but survivors still struggling PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Shops began to reopen in  Haiti’s capital yesterday and banking services were to resume  at the weekend but the government and aid workers still  struggled to assist masses of earthquake survivors camped out  in rubble-strewn streets.

…as cop fires at fleeing thief A pregnant fruit vendor was shot in the back yesterday morning by a plain clothes policeman pursuing an alleged cellular phone snatcher on crowded Water Street.

Some members of the New Building Society (NBS) are questioning the motive behind its decision to raise interest rates for loans above $8 million from 6.95% to 9.95% per annum.

-had kidnapped his child The body of the man who was found around 1:30 am in a yard at Golden Grove, West Coast Berbice on Wednesday has been identified as a 35-year-old labourer, Howell Henry of Alness, Corentyne.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has accused the US of acting in its own interest around the world and of blocking a visit of regional leaders to the quake-devastated Haiti.

The Georgetown municipality reported yesterday that it had secured a mandatory order from the High Court to have the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Leon Wayne yesterday pleaded not guilty to discharging a loaded firearm with intent and robbery under arms when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 39-year-old taxi driver has not been seen since Tuesday leaving relatives baffled at his disappearance.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton when he appeared to answer two indictable charges of robbery under arms and two summary charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Quacy Glasgow and Kenny Pinder who were remanded to jail on January 5 by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on a charge of robbery under arms, yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge after the Administration of Justice Act (AJA) was applied to their case.

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) has to date collected some $4.7M to assist sister Caricom country Haiti which was recently ravaged by a magnitude 7 earthquake.

A 24-year-old musician was remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton charged with robbery under arms yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  threatened to fight Wall Street banks yesterday with a new  proposal to limit financial risk taking, sending stocks and the  dollar tumbling.

– sources HONG KONG/MOSCOW/LONDON, (Reuters) – Russia’s UC  RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium producer, raised US$2.24  billion when it priced its Hong Kong and Paris initial public  offering at the middle of an indicated range, two sources  familiar with the deal said yesterday.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of  State Hillary Clinton yesterday called for an unfettered  worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who  conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with  the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Corporations can spend  freely to support or oppose candidates for president and  Congress, the U.S.

The Ministry of Housing and Water will be spending more than $780M to build about 460 more house lots in Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme and several other Region Six areas.