Guyana News

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The European Union and United  States initialed a deal  yesterday with Latin American,  African and Caribbean nations ending a decades-old trade war  over bananas.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate yesterday  approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade  bloc Mercosur despite concerns over President Hugo Chavez’s  restraints on democracy.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday placed a 58-year-old visually-challenged man on a two-year bond to keep the peace after a man that he had allegedly beaten with his metal cane agreed to accept  compensation of $100,000.

-transportation cited as major problem Teachers from eighty-one Rupununi schools on Monday had an opportunity to review their activities with a view to identifying their strengths and weaknesses and to plan for the coming months.

SYDNEY, (Reuters Life!) – Australian scientists have  discovery an octopus species that carries around coconut shells  to hide in when threatened, behaviour the researchers said was  the first example of sophisticated tool use in an invertebrate.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – People who drink the most  coffee and tea, even decaffeinated versions, can dramatically  lower their risk of diabetes, researchers reported yesterday.

As they contemplate Christ-mas without their loved ones, relatives of the men who died in a murky Essequibo River boat incident in August yesterday picketed the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s court where three soldiers, who they believed were involved, appeared for another matter.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive  approved 230 million euros ($334.4 million) in aid to African  and Caribbean countries yesterday to cushion their social  protection budgets depleted by the global financial crisis.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited on Monday held its 25th Annual General Meeting, after recording a 17% improvement in its financial performance over the previous year despite a $246.2M fraud.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited on Monday held its 25th Annual General Meeting, after recording a 17% improvement in its financial performance over the previous year despite a $246.2M fraud.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive  approved 230 million euros ($334.4 million) in aid to African  and Caribbean countries yesterday to cushion their social  protection budgets depleted by the global financial crisis.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday blacklisted two Mexicans and one Colombian, accusing  them of providing material support to the Sinaloa Cartel, a  Mexican drug trafficking organization.

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has said the Caribbean Community “will continue to support efforts for the full integration of Cuba in the hemisphere.”

“Ow mammy please don’t send me to jail, ah gone pay yah back…” cried 24-year-old Carl Cato, of East La Penitence, shortly after acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment for stealing a refrigerator and a gas stove from his mother’s home.

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Israel is parlaying civilian  technological advances into a cyberwarfare capability against  its enemies, a senior Israeli general said yesterday in a rare  public disclosure about the secret programme.

ROME, (Reuters) – An Italian man who broke Silvio  Berlusconi’s nose and teeth by striking him with a spiked  souvenir has apologised to the prime minister for his “cowardly  and rash act”, the attacker’s lawyers said.

The first shipment of paddy, which was expected to leave Guyana for Venezuela several weeks ago under the US$18.1M rice purchase agreement, will now be leaving for the neighbouring country during the course of this week.

PORTO VELHO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Straddling one the  Amazon’s main tributaries and flanked by dense jungle, a  construction pit the size of a small town bustles with  bulldozers and nearly 10,000 workers blasting huge slabs of  rock off the river bank.

The Office of the President (OP) is mourning the passing of Brindley Benn and recalled his dedicated service to the nation.

The 22-year-old police constable who was involved in an accident on the Schoonord Public Road opposite the Demerara  Harbour  Bridge (DHB) on December  2 in which  two cars where badly damaged, remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.