Guyana News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Desperate Haitians  turned rubble-strewn streets and parks into makeshift hospitals  and refugee camps yesterday in the absence of any noticeable  response from authorities in Haiti after Tuesday’s earthquake.

A miner was sentenced to 18 months in jail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting his employer.

PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – Teddy Pendergrass, the  seductive American rhythm-and-blues singer who continued his  recording career after he was paralyzed in a 1982 car accident,  has died at the age of 59, media reports said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  yesterday proposed Wall Street banks pay up to $117 billion  to reimburse taxpayers for the financial bailout, as he slammed  bankers for their “massive profits and obscene bonuses.”

Three men yesterday robbed the manager of the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire and Life Insurance (GTM) office at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara yesterday of $33,000, a lap top computer, two cell phones and jewellery after which they tied her up.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Troops and planeloads of  food and medicine streamed into Haiti yesterday to aid a  traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the  catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government  buildings and buried countless people.

-husband suspected, flees after taking poison By Zoisa Fraser The body of a 24-year-old woman was yesterday found in the channel of the Nismes, West Bank Demerara koker, allegedly murdered at the hands of her `controlling’ husband who later ingested poison and fled.

Guyana has pledged US$1 million in assistance to Haiti following the major earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation on Tuesday.

A bus filled with passengers slammed into an electricity pole and overturned at the Rupert Craig Highway at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara just before 6pm yesterday after the driver experienced a seizure.

-mother laments that police ignored report By Oluatoyin Alleyne The 22-year-old student teacher, whose stabbed body was discovered on Back Street, Harlem, West Coast Demerara, was likely kidnapped, her mother said yesterday, lamenting that the police failed to act when the first report was made.

-GB&GWU tells trade union board The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) told the Trade Union Recognition & Certification Board that the bid by the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) to have it booted out is a clear attack on workers’ rights.

A carpenter accused of hacking his wife to death in 2007 was yesterday committed to stand trial for her murder.

Media personality Mondale Smith of 1717 Princes Street, Wortmanville, yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer charges of unlawfully assaulting another man and maliciously damaging a glass door at Demico/Qik Serv.

Actress Sonia Yarde was yesterday placed on $60,000 bail when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly embezzling a quantity of money from the Ministry of Health while she was employed there.

–cops looking for getaway car Nicholas Hoyte’s relatives are baffled about his brutal killing in Alberttown since, as far as they know, he had no problems with anyone.

The abduction and assault charges against neurologist Dr Walter Ramsahoye and ex-policeman Clairmonte Marcus were dropped yesterday after the virtual complainant (VC) under oath declined to offer any evidence.

AFC leader Raphael Trotman says the Government of Guyana (GoG) should “seriously consider” offering to assist in the re-settlement of survivors in the wake of the devastating earthquake that has left a huge death toll in Haiti.

The Guyana Red Cross Society is appealing to the public for emergency monetary donations to allow it to boost its aid to disaster-hit Haiti.

The woman who allegedly started the Waterloo Street fire which ravaged two houses and damaged three others on Tuesday night remained in custody yesterday.

-winner for T&T contest Ansa McAl yesterday announced the semi-finalists for the seventh annual Soca Monarch competition and revealed that this year’s winner will have the opportunity to be part of the International Soca Monarch competition in Trinidad and Tobago.