Guyana News

-arrest warrant issued for third Two men yesterday appeared in court charged with the December 31 murder of Wendell Tapping in Albouys-town.

Russell Defreitas, one of the four men indicted on charges of conspiracy to blow up the JFK International Airport in 2007, told investigators when he was arrested that he was the “brain of everything”; the plan was “to blow up the tanks” and the intention was to hurt the US economy.

The Labour Ministry has intervened in the current dispute between the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) and the union representing the fired casual postal workers and has called representatives of both entities to conciliatory talks.

A Guyanese woman living in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has been found guilty of forging a document in an attempt to have visa applications by relatives for Canada and the US turned down.

The police are not disclosing more details about the case of the missing $3.4M from their Eve Leary Finance Office.

It has been almost two years since a rice farming family filed a lawsuit against Mahaicony Rice Ltd for $39 million owing for paddy supplied, but the company denies the indebtedness and has accused the family of attempting to defraud the High Court.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is inviting persons who held temporary positions at its offices to a two-day training programme aimed at helping it find permanent staff for existing vacancies.

Two men, who were charged with wounding each other following an argument over a girl, were yesterday placed on $50,000 bail each when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The top performer at the 2009 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations of the Saraswati Vidya Nikhetan School was presented with a certificate of commendation yesterday by President Bharrat Jagdeo at the Office of the President.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs has donated over 1500 food hampers to residents of the South Central and Deep South Rupununi to easy the impact of the arid El Nino weather.

Guyana has finalised a Trade Protocol with Trinidad and Tobago to increase the exportation of agriculture and forest products to that country.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President  Cristina Fernandez tried to force out the country’s central  bank chief yesterday in a dispute over using billions of  dollars in foreign currency reserves to pay rising debt  obligations.

The remains of a man, suspected to be a vagrant, were discovered in an abandoned car behind the Botanical Gardens yesterday morning.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two former British cabinet  ministers yesterday called for a secret ballot of MPs to  decide if Prime Minister Gordon Brown should lead the Labour  Party into an election due by June.

LILONGWE, (Reuters) – Amnesty International urged  Malawi yesterday to release two men arrested last week after  becoming the first gay couple to wed in the conservative  southern African state, which bars homosexuality.

Less than a month after its institution, the Guyana Police Force has rescinded the restriction order which prevented motor lorries from traversing between Houston and Timehri on the East Bank Public Road, between 6 am and 11 am.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Veteran Democratic Senator  Christopher Dodd said yesterday he will not seek re-election  in November in recognition that he faced an uphill battle and  underscoring upheaval facing President Barack Obama’s  Democrats.

After several delays, GT&T is hosting a ceremony at the Kingston seawall on Saturday to mark the shore-end landing of the Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System (SG-SCS) which will vastly expand the current bandwidth capacity.

SANAA, (Reuters) – Yemeni forces surrounded a  suspected al Qaeda regional leader near the capital yesterday  and captured three militants wounded in a raid, security sources  said.

Cabinet gave its no-objections to eight contracts valued over $300M at its last meeting for 2009 including one for police uniforms valued at $90m.