Guyana News

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The United States committed $2.7  billion yesterday to help fight HIV infection in Kenya where  more than a million people are living with the disease.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) –  After more than three centuries, the humble cheque is set to become a historic relic  after British banks voted to phase it out in favour of more  modern payment methods.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge found accused  swindler Allen Stanford and his attorneys in contempt of a  court order yesterday over their attempts to collect  insurance policy proceeds to pay defence costs.

-businessman, maid beaten Three unmasked bandits yesterday escaped with millions in cash and jewellery following a ten-minute rampage at a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) residence during which a businessman and his maid were battered in their faces.

The fight for tobacco control will be more robust in 2010 with an intense focus on labelling and packaging, Minister of Health, Dr.

Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin yesterday issued an arrest warrant for a man charged with causing the death of a girl at Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, after he did not turn up in court.

–Dr Gopaul Responding to a call in the Kaieteur News for him to disclose his earnings at GuySuCo, Chairman of the Interim Board Dr Nanda Gopaul said yesterday that his service to the corporation has been without compensation.

A Guyanese man who was the President of a Queens, New York firm fingered in a US$23 million loan fraud recently handed himself over to federal authorities and is expected to appear in court shortly.

Guyana’s “pioneering” work in climate planning was recognized at a forum yesterday on the sidelines of the United Nations global summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The shipment of H1N1 vaccines which was expected in the country yesterday did not arrive, but Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy believes the vaccines could be here “any day now” based on his communication with the World Health Organisation (WHO).

-US$257M allocated to agriculture Since beginning a partnership with Guyana in 1977, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has granted the country in excess of 58 loans valued at more than US$1billion, a recent report released by the IDB’s country office says.

Three men including a former employee of Channel Nine were arrested yesterday following another early morning break-in at the Mandela Avenue location and police have managed to recover some of the items stolen in the last few months.

There will be no Vybz Kartel show for Christmas. In a brief statement, PR Representative for Conscious Mind Promotions, Mondale Smith said that the show is off and persons have begun to collect refunds at the STVS offices.

-Ramsammy Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy says no final decision has been reached in the matter involving Dr Mahendra Chand and his treatment of a teenage boy who was tortured while in police custody.

The CARICOM secretariat is to work with member states to harmonise certain trade policies to facilitate intra-regional agricultural trade.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  has expressed confidence a climate deal can be clinched as  dozens of world leaders gather today to try to break a  deadlock at U.N.

A Canadian bauxite mining company says that it is achieving significant progress as it moves to establish an operation here at Bonasika, Essequibo.

The IDB has approved $102M in partial financing for two wind power projects in Oaxaca,  Mexico that are a part of its strategy to diversify its energy matrix while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – A price of $10 per tonne of  planet-warming carbon dioxide could be incentive enough to halt  greenhouse gas emissions from many land uses in Brazil and  Indonesia, a leading conservation group said yesterday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 48-year-old man pay a fine of $30,000 or spend eighteen months in prison after admitting to stealing several machine blades used in shaving machines from a boutique.