Guyana News

Devon Douglas, 27, of 67 Hunter Street, Albouystown pleaded not guilty to having 240 grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking when police stopped a minibus at a roadblock at Bamia, Linden/Soesdyke Highway on Sunday.

LEOGANE, Haiti, (Reuters) – Two hours drive west of  Port-au-Prince, in the banana-growing hills where the epicenter  of Haiti’s earthquake tore chunks out of hillsides, hurled  boulders and cracked roads, survivors with festering wounds  sleep by their wrecked homes, unseen by aid workers.

The couple, who had been recently charged with a string of visa scams, was yesterday granted $1M bail each when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Republican Scott Brown took an  early lead in a tight Massachusetts race for the U.S.

-man, two women on charges A man was charged with two counts of assaulting his ex-girlfriend’s cousin and her mother while his ex-girlfriend and her cousin were jointly charged with assaulting him.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japan Airlines Corp filed for  bankruptcy protection yesterday, owing more than $25 billion,  and vowed to slash 15,700 jobs and unprofitable routes as it  tries to survive volatile fuel costs and fickle flyers.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. Black Hawk  helicopters landed American paratroopers at the wrecked  presidential palace in the heart of earthquake-shattered  Port-au-Prince today in a show of military force  supporting a massive multinational relief operation.

The bloodied body of a man was yesterday morning found by a passerby slumped against a coconut tree on the Kingston seashore behind the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion and up to press time last evening he remained unidentified.

An octogenarian was killed yesterday afternoon after she was struck down by a minibus in the vicinity of the Linden bus park.

The body that was found floating in the Sussex Street canal near La Penitence Market on Saturday has been identified as 43-year-old Carl Christian called ‘Blacka’.

Caricom boosted its assistance to Haiti with the deployment of a tactical mission on Sunday.

The UK Government has increased its aid to earthquake ravaged Haiti in the light of recent assessments on the ground, which highlight the scale of the disaster.

A woman who pleaded guilty to trafficking in cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) told the court yesterday, “I’m guilty because it was found on me but I don’t know what it is.”

The Guyanese woman who was nabbed with some 50 pounds of at the JFK International Airport last week Tuesday was denied bail when she appeared before Magistrate Lois Bloom in a New York Court last Friday.

The father who approached this newspaper on Saturday agonising over the fate of his three-year-old daughter who had been molested, and, according to him, returned to the sane environment, has not been ruled out as a suspect in the abuse of the child.

Two weeks after Bascal Johnson’s murder on Laing Avenue, Georgetown relatives are calling on police to act “in a more efficient manner”.

Devon Haywood, 29, and Deidre Simon, 30, were remanded to prison yesterday after they both pleaded not guilty to having in their possession on Sunday at Leopold Street ten grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

One week after the nation of Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake, which killed tens of thousands and left even more homeless and injured, the Mayor & City Council (M&CC) yesterday held an extraordinary meeting to determine how the council can lend assistance.

A brazen attack yesterday morning by two bandits on a D’Urban Backlands business was foiled by the brave intervention of one of the managers.

A husband was remanded to jail while his wife was placed on $300,000 bail when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.