Guyana News

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pressure mounted yesterday  for Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari to resign after a  court struck down an amnesty protecting him and other  politicians from possible prosecution for corruption.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez yesterday accused the Netherlands of planning “aggression”  against Venezuela by allowing U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Jennifer Jones, the  American leading lady who won an Oscar for playing Saint  Bernadette in the 1943 movie “The Song of Bernadette”, died at  her home in Malibu yesterday at age 90.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Alleged swindler Allen Stanford  will spend more than a year in custody after a U.S.

Sister, counsellor, phenomenal, ambitious, simple and role model were some of the words used in tribute to the late minister within the Ministry of Education, Dr Desrey Fox during a service at the Umana Yana yesterday.

A 40-year-old watchman was yesterday found murdered in the home he guarded at Sixth Street, Diamond, East Bank Demerara following an apparent robbery.

A GWI employee was up to press time last night in serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound when two men attacked and robbed him of a gold chain on Norton Street, Georgetown.

Guyana has appointed a new Ambassador to Suriname. The new diplomat, Merlin Udho, arrived in the neighbouring country on November 20 and assumed the position on November 23 following the presentation of her credentials to the authorities there, Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues confirmed yesterday.

Even as Good Hope is beginning to feel the Christmas spirit, Ramrattie Roopchand and her five children are homeless after a fire, allegedly started by the woman’s reputed husband, ravaged their house.

-Tuesday meeting scrapped after company fails to show up Talks between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU), the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that two men, who are accused of breaking into HBTV Channel 9 and stealing several video cameras and computers, and another man, who was allegedly found with some of the stolen items, be remanded to prison.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is advising the public to exercise caution when buying cigarettes as it has found counterfeit and inadequately labelled Bristol, Marlboro and other popular brands for sale on the local market.

A Stabroek Market food vendor was remanded to prison last week by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on a charge of possession of drugs and his subsequent allegation against a policeman led to a detailed statement being taken from him.

Representatives of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) are expected to meet today to discuss the Annual Production Incentive (API) as both sides work towards a solution to the on-going protest by workers.

-following complaints Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud has promised that extension officers will visit the 58 Miles community, after residents lamented the lack of access to agricultural extension services in the hinterland area at a meeting on Monday.

Over 240 children were feted at the Sophia Literacy Project’s annual Christmas party held on Saturday.

Two men have been arrested as police probe the robbing of a Brazilian woman who was attacked by gun-toting men as she was about to enter her Kitty home on Tuesday.

A ganja trafficker was jailed for three years when he appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s court yesterday.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – Environ-ment ministers faced  gruelling negotiations today, to salvage a climate pact  from half-finished draft texts after two years of talks ran out  of time.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed system to pay  poorer nations for saving or replanting their forests has made  significant progress at climate talks in Denmark, the official  who chairs talks on the scheme said yesterday.