Guyana News

The Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana Inc said construction of 4,000 feet of runway at the Ogle Airport is in progress and is expected to be finished by late 2010.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) on Sunday donated food hampers and cleaning detergents to the Dharm Shala and Joshua House in order to help them execute their mandate.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh says it is vital that stakeholders in the sugar industry confront the challenges facing it as government has made huge investments to secure its long-term viability.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) spread Christmas cheer to a number of needy children across the country which culminated with a grand party hosted at the St Stanislaus College on Saturday.

Following the intervention of the Public Utilities Com-mission (PUC), talks between the Georgetown Municipality and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) over the former’s debt to the power company have borne fruit with both agreeing to waive the interest on sums owed to each other.

President Bharrat Jagdeo urged ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to conduct themselves with dignity and they will in turn earn the public’s respect as they strive to develop a peaceful society.

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Israel will find itself  diplomatically sidelined and militarily muzzled as the United  States pursues a nuclear deal with Iran next year, according to a  closed-door wargame at Israel’s top strategic think-tank.  

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani court has  ordered that two brothers should have their noses and ears cut  off after they were found guilty of doing the same to a woman  who refused to marry one of them, a government prosecutor said  yesterday.

Wage negotiations between the union, NAACIE and the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) broke down temporarily yesterday, when the union found some of the company’s proposals to be unacceptable.

EU calls for more U.S. involvement in climate works BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union called on  the United States yesterday to play a bigger role in combating  climate change, after Sweden described the Copenhagen summit  last week as a “great failure”.

Thirty-eight-old Ansel Chung of Lot 82 Gordon Street, Kitty, was placed on $200,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly fraudulently converting cash that he had received from a woman in order to purchase a piece of land for her.

Two men were discovered dead at various locations in the city yesterday morning but no foul play is suspected.

VILNIUS, (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence  Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison in Lithuania where al Qaeda  suspects may have been held, a parliamentary probe in the Baltic  state found yesterday.

QUINTIN ARAUZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Suspected drug  gang hitmen shot dead the grieving mother, brother and sister  of an elite Mexican marine who died after taking part in a raid  that killed a notorious drug lord, police said yesterday.

Following meetings with Commissioner of Police Henry Greene and Commander of ‘C’ Dvision Balram Persaud, Sharon Fung, the mother of the teen girl who was allegedly chopped by her stepfather last week, has said the police have promised that the man would be charged and an arrest warrant issued for him.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian Supreme Court’s  top judge ruled yesterday that Sean Goldman, the 9-year-old  boy at the center of an international custody battle, must be  reunited with his father and return to the United States.

Late former President and PNCR leader Desmond Hoyte, SC, was a nationalist to whom fate has been unkind, Opposition Chief Whip Lance Carberry says.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A Colombian governor kidnapped  by leftist rebels had been killed shortly after he was snatched  from his home in a rural southern state, authorities said yesterday.

–Sukhai Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai urged nine youth from Region Two who had participated in an entrepreneurship training programme to boost these skills and help to develop their communities.

-500 permanent jobs to be created A Peruvian Biofuels project is set to receive US$25M from the IDB to fund an ethanol refinery, sugar plantation and electricity plant that will generate 500 permanent jobs for local communities.