Guyana News

Twenty-five students from several schools across Linden are a part of a special anger management programme.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday sentenced a 40-year-old man to four years imprisonment after ruling that she had found him guilty of buggering a seven-year-old child in 2008.

The multi-million dollar NBS fraud case was on Monday adjourned to February 11 just before Magistrate Fazil Azeez recalled arrest warrants for two witnesses in the case.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes granted bail to one of two men accused of murdering Odingo Dingham Bryan in January 2004 after the state prosecution team failed to commence their trial yesterday as was previously ordered.

Davendra Bholanauth, the Sheriff Street businessman who was shot by robbers on Monday night, remains in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North and South Korea last night exchanged what appeared to be artillery fire near a  disputed sea border with the South off the west coast of the  peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported government officials as  saying.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Agriculture Corps says it has already harvested from its cultivation of cauliflower and broccoli, a project it initiated as these vegetables are gaining popularity locally.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan police  arrested former Presi-dent Alfonso Portillo yesterday after the  United States requested his extradition to face money-  laundering charges.

The Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) on Saturday hosted an award ceremony to honour 25 nurses who graduated from the University of Guyana (UG) with a degree in nursing.

ROME, (Reuters) – The late Pope John Paul flagellated  himself regularly to imitate Christ’s suffering and signed a  secret document saying he would resign instead of ruling for  life if he became incurably ill, a new book shows.

The Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) recently hosted a tour for 20 students from Wisburg Secondary School.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – A suicide blast killed at least  17 people at a police forensics office in Baghdad yesterday,  officials said, the latest attack to raise doubts about Iraq’s  ability to keep people safe weeks before a national election.

Cyrus Clarke, 27,  and Clayton Vanhersal, 27,  both of West Watooka, Wismar, Linden were remanded to prison on Tuesday on the indictable charges of  indecently assaulting a juvenile and having carnal knowledge of a juvenile, respectively.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – One student was killed and nine  police officers injured on Monday in the Venezuelan city of  Merida in violence linked to protests over the suspension of a  TV station opposed to President Hugo Chavez.

The man, who was shot in the shoulder while resisting robbers on Monday, is recuperating in hospital and recalled that during the attack one of the gunmen said “is you we want”.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. troops pulled a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti’s destroyed capital today, two weeks after a massive earthquake rattled the country.

The body of a 43-year-old mother of three was discovered at her home at Line Path, Skeldon, Corentyne, Berbice around 10 am yesterday with chop and stab wounds and a close relative is in police custody assisting with investigations.

A porter, a driver and a salesman of Survival Supermarket were yesterday jointly charged with stealing six cases of Guinness when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

The body of a three-week-old baby was fished out of a canal at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice (WCB) around midday yesterday after his 30-year-old mother threw him in alive around 6 am.

A city businessman was shot in the chest during a robbery at his Sherriff Street business last evening.