Guyana News

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday dismissed preliminary arguments by CLICO (Guyana) raised in the winding-up hearing in the High Court saying that the court was authorized in its actions with respect to the petition by the then Commissioner of Insurance and the subsequent order for leave which was granted.

The two policemen charged with wounding two prisoners during a murder probe made their second appearance in court yesterday and the case was deferred to January.

The main opposition PNCR yesterday denounced the appointment of controversial Assistant Commissioner of Police Steve Merai to head the Berbice Division, calling it an act of disregard for the citizenry.

The Eccles woman who was badly chopped allegedly by her husband on Wednesday morning said yesterday from her hospital bed that the man also assaulted their seven-year-old son before turning on her.

A 32-year-old man accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

From August next year all taxis are expected to be yellow.

Bandits attacked a Corentyne home on Wednesday evening robbing a family of a quantity of cash and jewellery.

-to meet magistrates next week Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh yesterday referred to the attack on Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond as very serious and “a regrettable and unfortunate” incident.

SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan  soldiers yesterday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that  stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident  to stoke a diplomatic dispute between the Andean neighbors.

-residents upset at police treatment The search by the police at a Queenstown house on Tuesday evening for guns and ammunition yielded nothing and the occupants of the home are upset at the way they were treated by the lawmen.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The United States pledged $275  million to rainforest protection yesterday, at an event hosted  by Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles, in London.

The Ministry of Education is set to re-employ several retired teachers and head teachers in January.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders named   Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, a man little known  outside his home country, as the bloc’s first president yesterday to lead efforts to make it more influential on the  world stage.

Guyana Water Incorporated’s (GWI) ‘Customer Alert’ will be aired today at 19:30 hrs.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oprah Winfrey, one of the  most influential and highly paid women on television, will  announce yesterday she is ending her popular daytime talk show  in 2011.

A Guyana Defence Force contingent comprising three Officers and 61 Other Ranks left Guyana yesterday  for security duties at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which is scheduled to be held in Trinidad and Tobago from November 27-29.

Four armed, masked bandits staged a brazen attack on Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony around 3:30 pm yesterday demanding that she hand over her digital camera/camcorder.

By Zoisa Fraser Years of abuse reached their peak yesterday when a 45-year-old Eccles woman was brutally chopped about her body allegedly by her husband who was later found hiding in a weed-infested trench several streets away.

Two vanloads of policemen last night swooped on a house in Queenstown and launched a search for guns and ammunition.

The memory of those who perished in the Jonestown tragedy thirty-one years ago is being honoured with the erection of a plaque at the site displaying the simple inscription: ‘In memory of the victims of the Jonestown Tragedy, November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana’.