Guyana News

The body of a 21-year-old man was discovered on the Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara foreshore yesterday morning and it is believed that he drowned.

-as cash, other donations pour in to national relief committee Charity-minded persons and companies continue to contribute to local Haiti relief efforts even as the Guyana National Committee for Haiti Relief shipped off four containers for the earthquake-ravaged island on Tuesday.

Six suspects who were held in connection with the murder of Nalini “Nalo” Bhoge, 43, of Line Path, Skeldon around 10 am on Monday have been released from police custody.

A taxi driver charged with receiving stolen property and his sales clerk friend who was charged with simple larceny were placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years and pay court costs after the Virtual Complainant in the matter declined to proceed with the matter.

Two suspects have been taken into custody in connection with a robbery around 7:20 pm on Wednesday at Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder in which businessman, Sarjoodin “Jango” Jewdhan was shot.

CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington on Wednesday challenged the youth of the Community to look not merely  for the benefits that may be coming to them  but also to use their “energy, creativity and skill” to help in building the Community that they want.

Government is in full support of the new initiative by the International Development Agencies (IDAs) to engage various domestic partners and stakeholders Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says.

A 42-year-old man was put on a bond to keep the peace for two years and he was also fined a total of $25,000 after he used abusive as well as threatening language to his wife and his sister.

Nigel’s Supermarket on Friday presented 39 winning shoppers with vouchers valued over $1 million from its Groceries Galore promotion.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has applied for the current dispute with GuySuCo over the payment of the Annual Production Incentive (API) for 2009 to go to arbitration.

A 37-year-old farmer was remanded to jail on the indictable charge of carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 15 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Afghan government yesterday  invited the Taliban to a peace council as its Western allies  worked out plans to try to end the war in Afghanistan.  

A building contractor who was charged with obtaining by false pretence was granted time yesterday to pay back in full $250,000 that he took from one Rudolph Baldeo with the intent to defraud.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Since Haiti’s earthquake  struck, the clientele at the Muncheez pizza joint has been  transformed — the affluent professionals are gone, replaced by  lines of people being quietly kept alive with free meals from  the restaurant chain’s owners. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Angry crowds mobbed  three food distribution sites in Haiti’s capital yesterday,  the latest handouts to turn chaotic as aid groups struggle to  help the throngs left desperate and hungry by the catastrophic  earthquake.  

A 34-year-old Linden man who is accused of the possession of cannabis will be spending the next few weeks behind bars after he was refused bail by Magistrate Ann McLennan when he appeared before her at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.

Dexter Daniels, 40,  of Lot 98 Kara Kara Scheme, Mackenzie, Linden appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan on Wednesday at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on a charge of break and enter and larceny while still on a one-year bond.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  vowed yesterday he would not rest until U.S.

An Annai man, for whom an arrest warrant was issued for assaulting a policeman, was on Wednesday shot in the leg after he attempted to escape from a policeman who arrested him in connection with a recent break-and-enter incident.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Former French Prime Minister  Dominique de Villepin was cleared yesterday of plotting to  smear his old rival Nicolas Sarkozy, dealing a stinging blow to  the president who never made a secret of their enmity.