Guyana News

There will be a “seamless transition” to a “smaller outfit” when the European Union-funded Linden Economic Advancement Programme (LEAP) wraps up business at the end of the next month, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil raised the pressure on  other nations yesterday ahead of a world climate summit,  pledging deep cuts in its greenhouse gases over the next decade  that would take its emissions back to 1990s levels.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The accused mastermind of  the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to  New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade  Center, the Obama administration said yesterday, as it took a  step toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters Life!) – Hundreds of reindeer  crossing a frozen lake above Sweden’s Arctic Circle for their  annual migration to winter grazing grounds drowned this week as  the ice collapsed beneath them.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Countries which promise to fight  corruption will now have to prove they are doing it thanks to a  new series of reports, the U.N.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – President Hugo  Chavez is stirring trouble with Colombia to disguise domestic  failures and Venezuela would be “mad” to enter a conflict with  its neighbor, a prominent opposition leader said.

WASHINGTON, Reuters) – The White House squeezed  Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday to show more resolve  in fighting corruption and said President Barack Obama’s war  plan deliberations included an exit strategy for U.S.

The body of 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan was successfully retrieved from a pond at the foot of Kaieteur Falls  yesterday afternoon bringing an end to days of hard work and trekking through extremely rough terrain by Special Forces ranks of the Guyana Defence Force.

– police arrest Clarke’s friend – berated over bulletin for ‘Crack head’ One of the six men wanted in connection with last Wednesday’s attacks in the city, yesterday turned up at the Brickdam Police Station accompanied by a lawyer and the mother of another lashed out at the police for releasing photographs and other information without “stating the facts”.

Nicola McDonald aka ‘Zeeta’, who was chopped allegedly by her irate husband on Wednesday, remains in severe pain as she recuperates in the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A Form One student is nursing a stab wound in the Georgetown Public Hospital after accidentally “jamming” another student during a music “clash”.

Sugar earnings down by US$10M In the wake of slumping sugar production, the government is projecting growth in the economy of only 2.5% this year compared to the originally estimated 4.7%.

The Government of Guyana, NICIL and the Privatisation Unit in a response to a Kaieteur News article on Wednesday, entitled `Controversy looms over Duke Lodge neighbour’, have asserted that in any tender, Government is not bound to sell or sell to the highest bidder or any bidder.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said that there are “ideas” as to the identity of the “terrorist mastermind” in the US who was said to be behind last week’s attacks in the city and the Ministry of Health fire and attempts continue to have the US assist in the confirmation of the individual’s identity.

Government has records in its possession to prove that the parcel of land at the corner of Vlissengen Road and Thomas Lands belongs to the state and not the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon.

PNCR-1G Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday walked out of the National Assembly after a request for a debate on the police investigation of the alleged torture of suspects, including a teen boy, while in police custody was denied.

-sector employs 5,398 guards The National Assembly last evening passed long-in-the-works legislation for the licensing and regulation of private security services.

A 33-year-old woman accused of wounding another was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $60,000 when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 43-year-old man accused of stealing scrap metal valued in excess of $1M was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 30-year-old woman accused of providing false information to an immigration officer for the purpose of acquiring a passport was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $100,000 when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.