Guyana News

The Guyana Fire Service received six water tenders and other equipment valued over $60M to boost its service at a ceremony hosted at the National Park on Monday.

Roraima Airways in collaboration with Blue Wings Airlines of Suriname yesterday launched its direct flight service from Ogle International Airport to Zorg-En-Hoop International Airport in Paramaribo, Suriname.

By Shabna Ullah President Bharrat Jagdeo told residents in Region Six yesterday during his cabinet outreach that he is optimistic about the future of sugar in Guyana despite persons saying otherwise.

Government and Con-servation International (CI) on Monday signed a US$700,000 collaborative project on avoided deforestation in recognition of Guyana’s mitigation efforts through the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

A couple jointly charged with being involved in a visa scam from which they obtained $4.9M from several persons, made their second court appearance yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where two other charges were read to them.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday confirmed that police have two men in custody for the Safraz’s Bar and Restaurant shooting which left waitress Kulmattie Singh dead and two others injured.

Four men who appeared at the Fort Wellington Court on Friday before Magistrate Nigel Hawke to answer a charge of carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old female were granted bail in the sum of $75,000 each.

The Mahaicony man who created an uproar at a meeting with President Bharrat Jagdeo at Mortice on Sunday, appeared at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of disorderly behaviour and was fined $20,000.

President Bharrat Jagdeo told Mahaica/Mahaicony residents during a recent outreach that the Uniform Assistance Programme will be extended to include every child.

Thirty-seven-year-old Keith Harris was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly being found in a man’s home while attempting to steal a crankshaft.

Freedom continues to deteriorate worldwide, the independent human rights organization, Freedom House said in its annual global survey of political rights and civil liberties but Guyana retained its ‘Free’ ranking.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that 25-year-old Haydock Bagot be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly obtaining a quantity of money from a man when he attempted to sell a car that did not belong to him.

Police have arrested a car driver after he reportedly fatally struck down a pedestrian at Hope on Sunday evening.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Billions of dollars set to  flood into Indonesia under a U.N.-backed

Thirty-five-year-old Troy King of Lot 2917 Well Road, North Ruimveldt, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly being involved in an accident that resulted in the death of another man.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – A remote-controlled bomb killed a  Tehran University scientist yesterday, official media reported,  in an attack Iran blamed on the United States and Israel.

The Regional Democratic Council of Region Five says it has successfully completed its capital works programme for 2009 from its budget of over $207M.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Google Inc said it may  pull out of China because it is no longer willing to accept  censorship of search results and after hackers coordinated a  sophisticated attack on email accounts of human rights  activists using its Gmail service.

Trinidadian Islamic leader Moulana Mustapha Hydal said the idea that Islam is a religion associated with terrorism has been fostered by Muslim themselves, “their behaviour and attitude”, and he has raised concerns about the culture of training children to take up arms in the name of religion.

Two houses have been ravaged and three others scorched after a disgruntled woman reportedly set fire to a local actor’s home some time before 10 last night.