Guyana News

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a construction worker be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder last year of a teenage boy.

KANEOHE, Hawaii, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  yesterday blamed a combination of “human and systemic  failures” in security for allowing the botched Christmas Day  attack aboard a U.S.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, (Reuters) – Russian Prime  Minister Vladimir Putin said  yesterday U.S.

The online newspaper Long Island Press.com yesterday reported that an 18-year-old man of Guyanese descent has gone missing in New York.

URUMQI, China, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister  Gordon Brown said he was appalled at China’s execution of a  Briton caught smuggling heroin yesterday, prompting China to  denounce British “accusations” and defend its court system.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company has decried a statement by Private Sector Commission Chair-man, Gerry Gouveia in yesterday’s edition of the Guyana Chronicle that the phone company needed to try harder to resolve problems with the 911 emergency service.

PARIS, (Reuters Life!) – Europe, the most secularised  region on Earth, has decided to launch a regular dialogue with  the organised religions that many on the continent once thought  would wither away.

Self-confessed drug dealer Peter Morgan will have to wait until February to learn his sentence following a fourth postponement granted by a New York court.

BOSTON, (Reuters Life!) – A 28-year-old college  dropout pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that he stole tens  of millions of payment card numbers by breaking into corporate  computer systems.

The Guyana Police Force in response to an article which appeared in yesterday’s issue of the Guyana Times under the caption, ’Mentally–ill aunt admits to murder’, says  that no evidence exists which suggest foul play was involved in the death of 4-year-old Thaddius Samuels.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s planned carbon tax cannot  be applied because it includes too many exemptions, a French  government body ensuring laws are constitutional ruled yesterday, in an embarrassing setback for the government.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Two young French women jailed in  the Dominican Republic for trafficking cocaine were freed yesterday having served 18 months of their eight-year sentence,  following pressure from President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife.

-during attempted river escape After repeated pleas for swift action in the murder investigation of boater Patricia Williams, the police last evening intercepted a boat on the Essequibo River that was ferrying the suspect to Bartica.

An Alness Village man was killed on Sunday night when he became the victim of a hit and run accident near a popular nightspot in Manchester Village.

Twenty persons have been arrested in Suriname on suspicion of rape, arson, assault and robbery during Christmas Day riots that targeted migrants in the town of Albina.

The Agriculture Ministry is leading an aggressive campaign to ensure that rice farmers in the Mahaica/Mahaicony region have enough water to cultivate their crops in the midst of a dry spell, Minister Robert Persaud said yesterday.

The cancellation of Sky Service’s year round service may have little effect since many travel agents were sceptical about placing bookings with the chartered service airline based on past experiences.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said it hopes the spirit of Christmas creates a great impact on employers and other citizens that it will influence and modify their behaviours in the new year.

Amazon Caribbean Limited has plans to expand its operations across the country in the coming months with a focus on scaling up organic farming to include other tropical fruits, and the company is also proposing to work closely with government.

– 6M euros for poverty reduction The European Union (EU) has injected over 19 million euros (approximately $5.5 billion) to aid in reforming the local sugar industry this year, in addition to the payments it made in development assistance to the country.