Guyana News

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey’s top court closed the  only pro-Kurdish party in parliament yesterday for having links  to PKK Kurdish rebels in a ruling that deals a fresh blow to  the country’s faltering bid to join the European Union.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict expressed  “outrage, betrayal and shame” yesterday at the sexual abuse of  children by priests in Ireland, which Church leaders said would  lead to a shake-up of the Irish Roman Catholic Church.

A  Guyanese woman is the first female engineer to be appointed by regional airline LIAT in its 53-year history, the carrier said  in a news release yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Latin American countries yesterday not to get too close to Iran, calling it “a really bad idea” that could have consequences.

-court told A Brazilian national on Thursday appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded two men to prison for a gunpoint robbery.

QUITO (Reuters) – US intelligence from inside Ecuador was used to plan a 2008 bombing by Colombian troops that killed a top FARC guerrilla chieftain inside Ecuadorean territory, the government said on Thursday.

Minister in the Ministry of Education, Dr Desrey Fox passed away at the Georgetown Public Hospital just after 3 this morning.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) will not be supporting a ‘keep the peace’ campaign which was intended for the National Park today with Jamaican dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel prior to a performance here this weekend.

– Jagdeo Political agreement at ongoing negotiations to forge a new climate pact at Copenhagen, Denmark will not be enough and a binding agreement that will be codified within an international treaty within six months is needed, President Bharrat Jagdeo says.

-Red Thread, Help and Shelter The state continues to fail to ensure that justice is served to women who have been violated, two rights advocacy groups have said.

Seeking to answer criticisms about defective photographs on new National Identifica-tion (ID) cards, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday said “an appropriate quality control procedure” was installed to ensure results of the highest quality.

-vow to continue struggle Rejecting the 3% pay hike which they were recently awarded, sugar workers yesterday picketed the Ministry of Finance calling it an injustice and vowing to press on “with the struggle” for better wages into the new year.

-Benn grilled The National Assembly last evening approved the spending of $4.6 billion in supplementary provisions even as PNCR-1G shadow Finance Minister Winston Murray contended that the government was continuing “to raid” the country’s Consolidated Fund.

GT&T attracted over 30,000 new subscribers this year, the company’s Director of Marketing Wystan Robertson said yesterday.

Thieves for the eighth time in recent months on Wednesday broke into Channel Nine on Mandela Avenue, carting off vital pieces of equipment which caused a nine-hour delay in transmission.

Two men who were each charged with threatening behaviour yesterday were placed on a bond by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to keep the peace for one year, and they then shook hands.

Magistrate Nigel Hawke remanded a 60-year-old man to prison when he appeared before him at the Weldaad Court yesterday charged with carnal knowledge.

In yesterday’s edition under the headline ‘Boutique roof ripped off in property row’ it was stated that the property in question is owned by National Hardware.

The soldier who confessed to being an accomplice of gunmen who launched an early morning attack on a GT&T cell site on the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway on Sunday, before engaging in a shootout with police is to make a court appearance today.