Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – A Briton who strangled his wife  during a nightmare because he believed he was attacking an  intruder, walked free from court yesterday after prosecutors  withdrew their case against him.

The husband of the Eccles woman who was brutally chopped about her body with a cutlass was yesterday arraigned on an attempted murder charge.

Orin Favourite of South Cummingsburg, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for break and enter larceny.

LUCKNOW, India, (Reuters Life!) – Shrews, beware: a  group of Indian husbands tired of being harassed by their wives  are demanding the local government create a male protection  society to address their grievances.

Albert De Freitas, the accused in the October 25 River View, Ruimveldt shooting, was on Thursday granted bail by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, after his lawyer made a successful application for bail.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid  Karzai is an “unworthy partner” who does not deserve a big  boost either in U.S.

Four persons were yesterday charged for a brutal brawl that culminated in an acid bath.

HERAT, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in  southwestern Afghanistan killed 17 people yesterday, and an  Afghan lawmaker escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of  Kabul but five of his bodyguards were killed, officials said.

The IDB has approved a regional grant of up to US$2.25 million to support initiatives to increase political participation by women from Latin America and the Caribbean.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A former U.S. State  Department official and his wife pleaded guilty yesterday to  charges that they spied for almost three decades for the  Communist-led Cuban government.

A man was stabbed about his body and on both palms yesterday after he was accused of trying to steal a motor cycle.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The routine reopening of  India’s parliament has suddenly emerged as an awkward test for  the Congress-led government’s ability to push reforms such as  price deregulation in the face of opposition from its rural  base.

The Office of the President (OP) yesterday described the parliamentary opposition’s dossier of human rights abuses as an attempt at politicking.

By Shabna Ullah A policeman suffered gunshot injuries to his face while responding to a robbery at Hampshire, Corentyne around 7.30 pm on Wednesday and is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

-passerby wounded A suspected bandit was last evening fatally shot after he and another man reportedly attempted to rob a grocery in the East Ruimveldt Market. 

The Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) of the Human Services Ministry yesterday launched its 24-hour “prevent child abuse hotline” to coincide with the day set aside for the prevention of this scourge.

–foreign minister orders probe By Oluatoyin Alleyne Officials at the Guyana Embassy in Washington DC made a “huge mistake” when they issued travel documents for a man of Guyanese parentage to be deported to Guyana and Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has ordered an investigation.

The National Assembly yesterday passed a bill that mandates the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to issue contribution records to workers annually.

A US$5 million ($1B) loan from the Inter-American Development Bank will be utilized to consolidate the Bank of Guyana’s supervision capacity, boost access to financial services and bring about more transparency, the IDB said in a release yesterday The IDB approved yesterday the US$5 million loan to strengthen Guyana’s financial sector and the programme will support one of the three pillars in the IDB Country Strategy for Guyana (2009-2012), namely the Competitiveness Strategy.

Men armed with cutlasses attacked students at the Lodge Community High School on Wednesday and fear escalated yesterday when several suspicious men were spotted in the compound resulting in the police being contacted.