Guyana News

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday  received from the Government of China 137 pieces of equipment comprising 100 portable generator sets, 28 gasoline water pumps and 9 tillers worth a total of $6M, not including the cost of transporting them here.

A man who admitted he drove his vehicle carelessly and under the influence of alcohol was fined $47,500 when he appeared at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

BEIJING/COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – U.S. President  Barack Obama said yesterday next month’s climate talks in  Copenhagen should cut a deal with “immediate operational  effect,” even if its original aim of a legally binding pact is  not achievable.

The Commerce ministry says due to the current surplus of chicken on the local market no shortage is expected during the festive season and as such no licence will be granted to import chicken this year.

Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday placed a man on self-bail when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court  for allegedly behaving disorderly after being found with a cutlass in his possession without reasonable excuse or authority.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters Life!) – The business of selling  food that is halal, or acceptable to Muslims, is set to grow  rapidly in Europe in coming years as more supermarket chains  target the sector, a Nestle executive said yesterday.

The decomposing body of a 52-year-old man was yesterday morning found in an old reservoir in front of his home by children.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s President Michelle  Bachelet yesterday condemned as haughty and offensive comments  by Peru’s leader Alan Garcia over a spy scandal that has  stirred century-old tensions between the neighbours.

Government continues to pursue large-scale agriculture in the Rupununi, President Bharrat Jagdeo says.

EDINBURGH – NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen  said yesterday he was confident the alliance would agree to  increase substantially the number of troops battling Taliban  insurgents in Afghanistan.

Police are hunting for a woman of Grant 1806 Crabwood Creek, Berbice in connection with the murder of Ram Kanniah whose body was fished out of a septic tank around 11 am on Sunday.

The silence of the government and the army on the indictment of ex-Major David Clarke in the US “raises a lot of questions,” according to Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman.

The Guyana Medical Council is looking into police surgeon Dr Mahendra Chand’s treatment of a torture victim, according to Council Presi-dent Dr Galton Roberts.

The first round of talks between negotiators from Caricom and Canada on trade relationships saw the regional team emphasising the need for a development-oriented agreement to benefit the region, Ambassador Gail Mathurin said yesterday.

By Mark McGowan Some members of the Trinidadian business community are skeptical about the TCL Group’s “monopoly” on their cement market and they favour the removal of the Common External Tariff (CET) to permit more options.

– as group opens new play park Minister within the Ministry of Education Dr Desrey Fox yesterday commended Every Child Guyana for having reached parents and caregivers of children in ways the ministry has been unable to.

– told self-induced intoxication no excuse Mahendra Singh, called Sunil, who killed his uncle after the uncle demanded that he leave a birthday party at Number 72 Village, Corentyne, on January 5, 2008, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Justice Winston Patterson at the Berbice Assizes.

A parent who had been pushing for an investigation into the allegations that a police sergeant at the Wismar Police Station sexually abused a group of boys said he was forced to drop the complaint because some of the other parents were upset that he made the case public.

Typewriter technician Michael Martin Crawford of Lot 9 Martin Luther Scheme, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was refused bail after two indictable charges of rape were read to him by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo in the New Amsterdam Court yesterday.

A young man was yesterday remanded to prison after Magistrate Priya Beharry read a charge of robbery with aggravation to him at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, accusing him of robbing a passenger in a minibus of a $107,000 gold chain.