Guyana News

A clothes vendor was remanded to jail yesterday by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson after he pleaded not guilty to stealing a wristwatch valued $15,000.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is now calling for US$103 million to assist some 300,000 people affected by the earthquake in Haiti for the next three years.

The Group of Rio has joined the call of the international community to contribute to the search and rescue efforts as well as to provide the emergency assistance that is vital for the Haitian people in the wake of the devastating earthquake last Tuesday.

The President and Central Executive of the CIOG and the Muslim community sympathise with the people of Haiti and appeal to the public to contribute to relief efforts.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An earthquake killing up to 200,000 people would have been bad enough anywhere, but in Haiti, where AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are rampant, children are malnourished and hygiene is already a challenge, it may create one of the worst medical disasters ever.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded to prison a young man who allegedly robbed another man at gunpoint on Christmas Day of his PlayStation2.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will temporarily allow entry to orphaned children from Haiti to receive needed care after the devastating earthquake in their country, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said yesterday.

The chairman of the Zone 32 minibus association and a conductor were placed on $25,000 bail each for assaulting each other to cause actual bodily harm, when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

LONDON (Reuters) – Taliban fighters, who launched an assault in Kabul yesterday, have been ordered to attack in as many places as possible to try to make it look as though they are everywhere, the head of the British army said.

Digicel yesterday announced that its network is now functioning well in Port-au-Prince, Haiti as more and more customers are connecting and are being able to make and receive calls, text messages, email and BlackBerry messenger messages.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif (Reuters) – A pair of box office sensations, Avatar and The Hangover, earned top film honours at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in a ceremony that took on a sombre tone after the recent earthquake in Haiti.

Three Mexican Armed Forces planes have been sent to Haiti carrying between 15 and 20 tonnes of food as well as doctors, rescue workers, engineers and civil protection technicians and personnel, following the catastrophic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince last week Tuesday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The United States was  sending more troops today to help protect a huge relief  operation in Haiti from marauding looters as tens of thousands  of earthquake survivors waited desperately for promised food  and medical care.

Security cameras at the entrance of a building in the area where Nicholas Hoyte was murdered last Tuesday may have footage of the car which transported his murderer.

The driver of a Toyota Surf vehicle, PHH 471, that was reportedly racing a group of CBR bikers caused serious damage to a house belonging to a 63-year-old man at Lovely Lass, West Coast Berbice around 7 last evening.

`We are not asking you to take guns and run behind the criminal but we are asking you to pass on information to us and let us do the fighting’ Ways of improving policing, community policing and the relationship between the two were discussed at this year’s first Police Outreach Programme yesterday in Kitty.

– US company reneged on promise to compensate By Gaulbert Sutherland Removed from the life he once knew, goldsmith Tulsiram Sukdeo prepares to undergo yet another operation as he fights for compensation from the US-based company involved in the boat accident that maimed him, leaving him unable to earn a livelihood.

A 23-year-old man was electrocuted yesterday morning by an exposed wire at his Felicity workplace.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday again told Black Bush Polder residents that plans are in train to upgrade the main road at a cost of US$7M. 

Persons who have been involuntarily returned to Guyana now have the opportunity to access assistance from the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) to start up a business.