Guyana News

Unknown persons broken into a car at Parika, East Bank Essequibo yesterday and stole $6.6M that a North West District businessman had earlier withdrawn from a bank.

-whistleblower protections being expanded The Inter-American Develop-ment Bank has approved an action plan to help countries reduce corrupt practices, while bolstering whistleblower protections.

Hours after recovering the body of miner Michael Leslie, suspected to have drowned in a gorge below the Kaieteur Falls, soldiers were forced to cut it loose in a rapid to save one of their own.

The Fisheries Department in the Ministry of Agriculture has permitted the first legal harvesting of Arapaima in North Rupununi following the implementation of a management plan and after a count of the giant freshwater fish showed a significant increase from last year.

-says after set-offs $510m owed The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) has given the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) until tomorrow to honour an agreement to commence paying the net $510m owed and failure to do this will result in the disconnection of electricity to two city markets.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – China led calls by developing  nations for deeper emissions cuts from the United States, Japan  and Europe at U.N.

A 19-year-old GuySuCo mechanic lost his life after he was struck by a low-bed trailer at Corriverton on Monday evening while he and other workers were fixing a bulldozer that broke down on the roadway.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 60-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old schoolboy.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – At least four car bombs killed  112 people in Baghdad yesterday, leaving charred buses and  scattered body parts in a blow to the government’s efforts to  show it can defend Iraqis before U.S.

International reggae sensation Taurus Riley, Duane Stephenson and a Brazilian band which is yet to be named are set to take Linden by storm come 1st January 2010 for a ‘stress relief fest’.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Police in Brazil’s  biggest cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro routinely  execute suspects and cover up the killings as self-defence,  U.S.-based

The 60-year-old guard who was left in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following a hit-and-run is now stable.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Children will be taught about online dangers with a new “Green Cross Code” for internet safety  under plans launched by the government on Tuesday.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that two men, one accused of using a knife to rob another man of a gold chain and a quantity of cash, while another accused of using a cutlass to rob a woman of a quantity of gold jewellery in separate incidents, be remanded to prison when they appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

BOCA RATON, Fla., (Reuters) – Corruption, whether in  the form of crooked officials, financial fraudsters or even  philandering sports stars, is tearing at the fabric of U.S. 

Just over half of the $400M recently set aside by President Bharrat Jagdeo to assist the rice sector will be distributed in the form of fertilizer vouchers.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina and Brazil, once  joint pioneers of South American integration, are drifting  apart, a gap that leaves Argentina with far more to lose.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Poland’s last communist leader,  General Wojciech Jaruzelski, wanted Soviet troops to invade his  country in 1981 to help crush striking workers, according to a  document published yesterday by the state archives institute.

Bandits, one of whom was armed with a gun stuck up a pump attendant at the Bel Air Service Station, East Coast around noon yesterday and later escaped in a waiting motor car with a cash register containing cash and a computer.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Suspected drug hitmen yesterday shot and killed Honduras’ top anti-drugs official who  recently had warned the country was in danger of becoming a  “narco-state,” police said.