Guyana News

-say vulnerable groups suffering The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) says it is concerned about the length of time being taken to determine the status of the local CLICO entity while its most vulnerable dependants are suffering.

-$170m provision had to be made for impaired Stanford, CLICO investments Despite its net income being higher in 2009, Citizens Bank Guyana Inc saw its profit fall to $390m from 437m in 2008 because of a $170m provision for impaired investments with the collapsed Stanford and CLICO groups.

– party slams police action PNCR activist Esther Perreira said police unlawfully detained her on a “trumped-up charge” in late December and forced her to break the new year behind bars.

A 17-year-old former employee of Low’s Service Station was fined $40,000 for embezzling $600 when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

New Year’s day turned out to be horrible for a young couple of Bath Settlement, West Berbice when their one-year-old daughter, Sonia Ali suffered second degree burns to her face and chest with hot porridge.

-ministerial powers turn off opposition A bill which will see the establishment of a Guyana Livestock Development Authority was last evening passed by the National Assembly despite concerns by the opposition parties that the bill permits the unnecessary intervention of the Agriculture Minister.

Former New York lawyer Robert Simels, who once represented convicted drug kingpin Shaheed Roger Khan, will begin serving his 14-year sentence for witness tampering in a Texas jail after his last ditch attempt to get bail pending an appeal was denied yesterday.

A 32-year-old city council worker is nursing head and other body injuries in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after he fell some 20 feet from a tree while on the job.

The PNCR yesterday said MP Anthony Vieira has resigned from the National Assembly.

A month after losing everything in a fire which started in a neighbour’s house, Drupattie Maraj and her family are concerned about the dangers that the remains of the neighbouring building pose to their property.

A man was injured during a drive-by shooting early yesterday morning while walking along Regent Street.

Marlon Matthias, according to police, was shot on Wednesday night after he was attacked and robbed by two men.

An 18-year-old was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday  and the court heard how he and another tried to sell stolen chicken to its former owner.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama took  ultimate responsibility yesterday for security lapses that  allowed the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.

“I get up every day about 5 o’clock, feed my children, clean up the yard and then study where I will get food from for the rest of the day,” the words of 21-year-old Latchmin Soman, a mother of three who had been living at Anna Catherina Sea View, close to the seawall some for some five years.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications has completed a $33M project to construct 210 metres of rip-rap sea defence at Henrietta.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine President  Cristina Fernandez yesterday fired the country’s central bank  president, who had rejected her calls to step down for refusing  to use foreign currency reserves to pay debt.

The Georgetown Petroleum Prospecting Licence (PPL), granted to a group that includes CGX Resources Inc, a subsidiary of CGX Energy Inc, has been renewed.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An attempt to oust British Prime  Minister Gordon Brown appeared to have fizzled out yesterday,  leaving a battered Brown to lead his jittery party into this  year’s election.

A substantial sum of money stolen from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) by one of its employees was yesterday returned to the GRA one day after the money was discovered missing.