Guyana News

An octogenarian was killed yesterday afternoon after she was struck down by a minibus in the vicinity of the Linden bus park.

The body that was found floating in the Sussex Street canal near La Penitence Market on Saturday has been identified as 43-year-old Carl Christian called ‘Blacka’.

Caricom boosted its assistance to Haiti with the deployment of a tactical mission on Sunday.

The UK Government has increased its aid to earthquake ravaged Haiti in the light of recent assessments on the ground, which highlight the scale of the disaster.

A woman who pleaded guilty to trafficking in cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) told the court yesterday, “I’m guilty because it was found on me but I don’t know what it is.”

The Guyanese woman who was nabbed with some 50 pounds of at the JFK International Airport last week Tuesday was denied bail when she appeared before Magistrate Lois Bloom in a New York Court last Friday.

The father who approached this newspaper on Saturday agonising over the fate of his three-year-old daughter who had been molested, and, according to him, returned to the sane environment, has not been ruled out as a suspect in the abuse of the child.

Two weeks after Bascal Johnson’s murder on Laing Avenue, Georgetown relatives are calling on police to act “in a more efficient manner”.

Devon Haywood, 29, and Deidre Simon, 30, were remanded to prison yesterday after they both pleaded not guilty to having in their possession on Sunday at Leopold Street ten grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

One week after the nation of Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake, which killed tens of thousands and left even more homeless and injured, the Mayor & City Council (M&CC) yesterday held an extraordinary meeting to determine how the council can lend assistance.

A brazen attack yesterday morning by two bandits on a D’Urban Backlands business was foiled by the brave intervention of one of the managers.

A husband was remanded to jail while his wife was placed on $300,000 bail when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

A clothes vendor was remanded to jail yesterday by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson after he pleaded not guilty to stealing a wristwatch valued $15,000.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is now calling for US$103 million to assist some 300,000 people affected by the earthquake in Haiti for the next three years.

The Group of Rio has joined the call of the international community to contribute to the search and rescue efforts as well as to provide the emergency assistance that is vital for the Haitian people in the wake of the devastating earthquake last Tuesday.

The President and Central Executive of the CIOG and the Muslim community sympathise with the people of Haiti and appeal to the public to contribute to relief efforts.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An earthquake killing up to 200,000 people would have been bad enough anywhere, but in Haiti, where AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are rampant, children are malnourished and hygiene is already a challenge, it may create one of the worst medical disasters ever.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded to prison a young man who allegedly robbed another man at gunpoint on Christmas Day of his PlayStation2.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will temporarily allow entry to orphaned children from Haiti to receive needed care after the devastating earthquake in their country, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said yesterday.

The chairman of the Zone 32 minibus association and a conductor were placed on $25,000 bail each for assaulting each other to cause actual bodily harm, when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.