Guyana News

An early morning sweep of some Mackenzie, Linden supermarkets and retail outlets last week resulted in a quantity of damaged and expired goods being seized.

The Justices of the Peace and Commissioners of Oaths to Affidavits Association is concerned about recent allegations made by Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali regarding the alleged involvement of JPs in the illegal sale of house lots.

Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton on Monday remanded a labourer to prison after he appeared before her at the Springlands Court, charged with the murder of his wife.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters – A major electricity outage  left tens of millions of people in Brazil’s two largest cities  of Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro without power last night.  

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Pushing for tougher changes  in U.S. financial regulations, the Senate’s top banking  legislator yesterday proposed a new super-cop to police banks,  a systemic risk agency and strong consumer protections.  

President Bharrat Jagdeo reiterated his commitment to increasing wages for public servants at the PYARG award ceremony hosted two Saturdays ago.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The government plans to raise the  minimum jail sentence for people convicted of murder using a  knife to 25 years from 15 years, Justice Secretary Jack Straw  said yesterday.  

A spectator at the car racing at the South Dakota Race Circuit was on Sunday treated for “shock and trauma” after being grazed by one of the racing cars after it crashed into a fence close to where he was standing.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A former Russian policeman, who  accused officers in his home town of corruption in blogs that  had more than one million Internet hits, said on Tuesday he  wanted to discuss the affair with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 

 PARIS/LONDON – The world faces a surge in energy costs, as  well as an increase in planet-warming carbon emissions, unless  it agrees a climate change deal soon, the International Energy  Agency said yesterday.  

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department  yesterday said it imposed sanctions on 14 people and 25  companies in Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands that it said  supported the financial network of former bosses of Colombia’s  Cali cocaine cartel.  

MOBILE, Ala., (Reuters) – Ida dwindled to a tropical  depression on Tuesday after crawling ashore in Alabama from the  Gulf of Mexico, and oil operations in the Gulf were quickly  returning to normal after being widely disrupted by the storm.  

NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – After more than  30-years, murder mystery writer Agatha Christie’s fictional  Belgian detective Hercule Poirot will return to the United  States next week.  

ATHENS, (Reuters) – A man died after jumping  off Greece’s Acropolis, a major tourist attraction visited by  millions every year, police said yesterday.

Guyana and Norway yesterday signed an agreement that will see Oslo paying US$30 million ($6.2 billion) next year and potentially up to US$250 million ($51.7 billion) by 2015 for Guyana to preserve its forests.

– apparently strangled The body of a 26-year-old woman was fished out of a trench at Silk Cotton Dam, Zeelugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD) at approximately 06:30 hrs yesterday with marks of violence around the neck and other areas.

Police indicated yesterday that the 16-year-old student of New Amsterdam Multilateral School was fatally beaten at Number 63 Beach on Sunday after he had picked watermelon from a farm located close to the beach.

The attorney for the teen tortured by police says that his client denied being involved in the murder of retired Region Three Vice-Chairman Ramenauth Bisram and said he was burnt because he refused to sign a statement admitting to the murder.

– Ramsammy finds criticism unfair The Periwinkle Club The Periwinkle Club was formed in 2006 to assist cancer survivors, offering a forum for advocacy and sensitizing the public to the risks of cancer.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has accused Police Surgeon Mahendra Chand of ignoring the abuse of a teen who was tortured while in custody and yesterday called for him to be relieved of duties in the police force and the prison service.