Guyana News

The Georgetown municipality reported yesterday that it had secured a mandatory order from the High Court to have the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Leon Wayne yesterday pleaded not guilty to discharging a loaded firearm with intent and robbery under arms when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 39-year-old taxi driver has not been seen since Tuesday leaving relatives baffled at his disappearance.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton when he appeared to answer two indictable charges of robbery under arms and two summary charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Quacy Glasgow and Kenny Pinder who were remanded to jail on January 5 by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on a charge of robbery under arms, yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge after the Administration of Justice Act (AJA) was applied to their case.

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) has to date collected some $4.7M to assist sister Caricom country Haiti which was recently ravaged by a magnitude 7 earthquake.

A 24-year-old musician was remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton charged with robbery under arms yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  threatened to fight Wall Street banks yesterday with a new  proposal to limit financial risk taking, sending stocks and the  dollar tumbling.

– sources HONG KONG/MOSCOW/LONDON, (Reuters) – Russia’s UC  RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium producer, raised US$2.24  billion when it priced its Hong Kong and Paris initial public  offering at the middle of an indicated range, two sources  familiar with the deal said yesterday.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of  State Hillary Clinton yesterday called for an unfettered  worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who  conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with  the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Corporations can spend  freely to support or oppose candidates for president and  Congress, the U.S.

The Ministry of Housing and Water will be spending more than $780M to build about 460 more house lots in Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme and several other Region Six areas.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The search for survivors  of Haiti’s killer earthquake started to wind down as  international rescue teams begin pulling back and aid, though  more plentiful today, was still not enough for the masses  left homeless and injured.

The unidentified body of a man of mixed race was discovered lying face down in a yard at Golden Grove, West Coast Berbice around 1:30 am yesterday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 44-year-old bus driver be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court accused of being involved in the accident at the Linden bus park that caused the death of an octogenarian.

Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says his country is grateful for the quick response of CARICOM in the wake of the devastating earthquake of Tuesday, January 12.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday officially welcomed Guyana’s Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo at the presidential palace in Tehran, the country’s capital, and they held discussions on several world issues as well as relations between the two countries, the Iranian News Agency (IRNA) reported, according to a GINA release.

-Cuban doctor to be assigned There has not been a deterioration of service at the Aishalton District Hospital, Minister in the Ministry of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran says while acknowledging the need to improve capacity, not only there but at other locations also.

Before his throat was slashed, Llewelyn Fitzgerald Cam-pbell was hit at the back of his head with a blunt object, a post-mortem examination yesterday revealed and a source said that the last time he was seen alive he had been planning to visit friends at the seawall.

East Coast businessman Clement Toney who operated a hatchery several years ago is currently challenging Scotia Bank in the High Court for selling his business after he defaulted on a mortgage.