Guyana News

A 48-year-old seaman accused of having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl was granted bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir is refuting recent statements made by Opposition Leader Robert Corbin and  says that his Ministry has been doing  all in its power to intercede in the dispute between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) and RUSAL’s Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

The pastor of the Linden Church of Christ recounted on Monday how he advanced on a gunman even though he had already been shot and the man was still firing at him.

“Everything belongs to me,” stated 23-year-old Imran Khan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday shortly before he was jailed for five years and ordered to pay a fine of $55,000 for cultivating cannabis plants and being in possession of a shotgun without a firearm licence.

The husband of the Stabroek Market vendor who was fatally wounded by a businessman last August says that he is seeing evidence of “foot-dragging” by the police as charges are yet to be laid and he is disappointed that a promise to offer compensation has not been fulfilled.

In the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake, the Princess Hotel and GEMS Theatre Productions are teaming up to host a ‘Benefit Concert for Haiti’ on Saturday at the Princess Hotel Poolside.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The key to working in a  disaster zone hospital, where casualties pile up faster than  patients can be discharged, is to avoid getting emotionally  involved, says Dr.

Joanna Danhai, the mother on trial for the murder of her two children, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the High Court yesterday and is to be sentenced next month.

The paint samples from the boat involved in last year’s collision in the Essequibo River that left two men dead and 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine missing are still to be tested by police.

– Australian general CANBERRA,  (Reuters) – Australia’s former military  chief has characterised recent attacks on Indian students as  racially motivated, rejecting Canberra’s official line that the  violence has been purely criminal rather than racist.

JOS, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – More than 150 Nigerians  have been killed and dozens injured in three days of clashes  between Muslim and Christian gangs in the central city of Jos,  where police imposed a 24-hour curfew, residents said.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says it is necessary to have significant progress in the area of contingent rights in light of hindrances to the establishment of a protocol on those rights.

Devon Douglas, 27, of 67 Hunter Street, Albouystown pleaded not guilty to having 240 grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking when police stopped a minibus at a roadblock at Bamia, Linden/Soesdyke Highway on Sunday.

LEOGANE, Haiti, (Reuters) – Two hours drive west of  Port-au-Prince, in the banana-growing hills where the epicenter  of Haiti’s earthquake tore chunks out of hillsides, hurled  boulders and cracked roads, survivors with festering wounds  sleep by their wrecked homes, unseen by aid workers.

The couple, who had been recently charged with a string of visa scams, was yesterday granted $1M bail each when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Republican Scott Brown took an  early lead in a tight Massachusetts race for the U.S.

-man, two women on charges A man was charged with two counts of assaulting his ex-girlfriend’s cousin and her mother while his ex-girlfriend and her cousin were jointly charged with assaulting him.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japan Airlines Corp filed for  bankruptcy protection yesterday, owing more than $25 billion,  and vowed to slash 15,700 jobs and unprofitable routes as it  tries to survive volatile fuel costs and fickle flyers.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. Black Hawk  helicopters landed American paratroopers at the wrecked  presidential palace in the heart of earthquake-shattered  Port-au-Prince today in a show of military force  supporting a massive multinational relief operation.

The bloodied body of a man was yesterday morning found by a passerby slumped against a coconut tree on the Kingston seashore behind the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion and up to press time last evening he remained unidentified.