Guyana News

GuySuCo is working towards avoiding a repeat of last week and intends to pay its workers on time this week, its Chief Executive Errol Hanoman says.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Ousted Honduran President  Manuel Zelaya will leave the country today for exile in  Mexico after spending nearly three months holed up in the  Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, sources said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  yesterday praised a Senate compromise on a public insurance  option, and Senate Democrats said the proposals moved them one  step closer to passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that a 17-year-old boy, who appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, pay a fine of $30,000 and  spend three years in prison shortly after admitting to being caught with a quantity of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – An enhanced version of the  U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol is set to be part of the fight against  global warming until 2020, according to a draft text by Denmark  which is hosting talks on a new climate agreement.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy  and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for an  exceptional tax on global bank bonuses in a joint newspaper  column today.

-car, gun stolenThe police in two different parts of the country are investigating incidents in which a businessman was robbed of his firearm and a taxi driver of $21,000 and his car.

A 23-year-old ex-convict was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with last Saturday’s robbery of a De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara family.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Facebook, the world’s No.1  Internet social network, took a step towards opening up parts of  its site to outsiders yesterday by introducing more options  for user’s privacy settings.

The Mayor and City Council has extended the period of amnesty to December 31, 2009 and is calling on all defaulters to go in to its treasury and settle their accounts, the Council said in a news release.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Four nations proposed guiding  principles for “green funds” yesterday, hoping to end  deadlock at U.N.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – U.S. researchers have found a  drug-free way to block fearful memories, opening up the  possibility of new treatment approaches for problems such as  post traumatic stress disorder, they reported yesterday.

All they want for Christmas is a new floor. But despite numerous reports to the authorities about the dust problems affecting the Aishalton Primary school, nothing has been done and parents have vowed to keep their children at home when school re-opens next year if the problem is not fixed by then.

Home Affairs Ministry expresses ‘deep regret’ The horrific treatment and torture of a teen and two other men in the Ramenauth Bisram murder investigation was known by other police ranks but they were indifferent and complicit, and under investigation, some told lies and gave conflicting statements.

Minister within the Ministry of Education Desrey Fox was last evening admitted as a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after she was pitched through the windscreen of her car following a three-vehicle smash-up in the city.

GAWU disappointed, sees bleak future for industry The cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guy-SuCo) will have to find approximately $450 million by March of next year to pay sugar workers increased wages, after an arbitration panel ruled in its favour and awarded a 3% hike for those represented by GAWU.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has extended the period for the distribution of new National Identification (ID) cards.

The National Parks Commission has refurbished its Nature School at the Zoological Park with a $3.7M grant from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

-court hears A 40-year-old mother of six attempted suicide after the police did not respond to a report made that she was raped.

-says Washington’s policies to countries like Guyana weak With his political aspirations and recent installation as Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Peter Ramsaroop says he is willing to give up his US citizenship if called upon to serve at any high level of government.