Guyana News

Scotiabank brought smiles to the faces of the young and the old on Tuesday evening when the entity held its annual ‘Night of carolling’ through the streets of Georgetown, making brief stops at charitable homes around  the city.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Tuesday issued an arapaima fishing permit to Annai Village to allow Amerindian communities in the area to sustainably harvest the fish by February.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry recently awarded winners in the Primelife Club Prize Giveaway and made monetary donations to a number of charitable organisations.

Christine Dick, the teen whose stepfather reportedly chopped her with a saw, was discharged from the George-town Public Hospital yesterday afternoon.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – Critics were sharply  divided on Friday over Hollywood star Keira Knightley’s London  stage debut, with one calling her “strikingly convincing” and  another accusing her of “having all the charisma of a goldfish”.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Three films, “Inglourious  Basterds,” “Precious” and “Up in the Air,” earned three  nominations apiece for Screen Actors Guild Awards yesterday,  capping a week of numerous critics’ and industry honors.

A clothes vendor, who allegedly stole a quantity of jewellery from two women who believed him when he told them that he was a foreigner and that he would take them to New York, was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer simple larceny charges.

– Shah Rukh MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan says his upcoming film ‘My Name is Khan’, which pairs him with co-actor Kajol after an on-screen hiatus of eight years, does not have terrorism as its main theme and is mostly a love story.

Two men who were in custody over an armed robbery committed on a Hampshire, Corentyne family, have told an attorney that police did not assault or ill-treat them since their detention.

The decomposed body of an 85-year-old Parfait Harmonie man was discovered in his home on Saturday night.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia said it is preparing to  defend against a possible foreign military attack amid growing  tensions with neighbouring Venezuela, while Venezuelan President  Hugo Chavez said yesterday Colombia would regret any actions  that hurt his country.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday launched  the first part of a national police force intended to end  widespread police corruption in the South American nation,  which has one of the world’s highest murder rates.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Iran’s most senior dissident  cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died at the  age of 87, providing a fresh catalyst for renewed demonstrations  against the country’s hardline leadership.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – The world will find it hard  to get U.N.-led

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Polish police recovered the metal  sign that hung over the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz and  detained five men suspected of the theft that sparked worldwide  condemnation, the state news channel said yesterday.

DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad  al-Hariri said yesterday he agreed with Syrian President Bashar  al-Assad on practical steps to open up “new horizons” in ties  between the two Arab neighbours.

– says they had gun A man was shot dead and another injured by an off-duty police officer who was said to have been moonlighting as a bouncer/security guard at a city night spot.

– for stiffer drug penalties The stiff jail sentences recently handed down by Barbados to Guyanese drug traffickers highlight the fact that those found guilty here never get more than five years and PPP MP and attorney Anil Nandlall says the current law must be revamped to permit sterner penalties where warranted.

-Sharma Broadcaster CN Sharma is accusing the government of being prejudicial in its treatment of his application for a radio signal, ignoring him within recent months since a court ruling on the state monopoly on radio while also “showing little regard for my television business.”

In an attempt to galvanize support against the Court of Appeal Amendment Bill which is currently before a Select Committee the PNCR has again made its objections public, saying in a statement last week that the legislation creates a new sentence of life imprisonment without conviction.