Guyana News

Captain Gerald Gouveia yesterday flew a Britten Norman Islander, which had been stranded at the Kaieteur Falls area for just over a year, to the Ogle International Airport (OIA).

– court told A taxi-driver, who allegedly received three radio handsets that were stolen from Wings Taxi Service by another man, was yesterday granted bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The PPP/C remembers Newburn Pompey’s “sterling contributions to the struggle for democracy and national development” even as it mourns his passing on Sunday.

A 44-year-old man who had chopped another man to his face with a cutlass was put on a two-year bond to keep the peace when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court Trevor Bahadur of Lot 189 Middle Road, La Penitence was accused of unlawfully and maliciously wounding Linden Macy on September 7.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama yesterday signed an order banning federal workers from text messaging while driving on official business or using government vehicles.

Hopetown Primary School of Region Five came out on top when the Ministry of Education presented its Schools Festival of Choirs yesterday at the National Cultural Centre.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Talks between Iran and six major powers over Tehran’s nuclear programme yesterday opened the door to improved relations as Iran agreed to allow UN inspectors into a newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant.

The armoury of the Guyana Police Force would soon receive a significant boost as Cabinet recently offered its no objection to a contract that would see the purchase of arms and ammunition for the force to the tune of $69.8 million.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter yesterday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone.

The heads of all of Guyana’s diplomatic missions around the world will be brought home this month to have a retreat with the government, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon has said.

A brand new Toyota Corolla NZE motor car and a total of US$3,000 are up for grabs in the Guyana Oil Company’s 2009 promotion under the label “GTX Experience.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Declaring Haiti “open for business,” Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis welcomed hundreds of potential investors yesterday to a conference meant to kick-start an economy stunted by decades of political turmoil.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has started delivery of water by way of tankers to East Coast Demerara communities whose supply has been affected by the electricity shortfall.

LONDON – The insurgency in Afghanistan is growing and the success of the campaign against the Taliban cannot be taken for granted, General Stanley McChrystal, the head of US and NATO troops, said yesterday.

-victims believed to be foreigners The bullet-riddled bodies of two men, believed to have been foreign nationals, were found in the Essequibo River, within a day of each other.

-prosecutor The US government agreed to a plea bargain with confessed drug trafficker Roger Khan in part to protect information about other targets of the investigation, who are yet to be arrested, according to US Attorney Benton Campbell.

Even as the Ministry of the Education managed to resolve a stabbing incident at a city school there was second one yesterday and a fracas at a primary school that saw a child rushed to hospital.

A 13-year-old Diamond Secondary School student was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday afternoon after he was stabbed in the chest, allegedly by a classmate.

The finance controller of the Princess Hotel, who was held with some US$14,000 (nearly $3 million) while trying to board a flight out of the country on Tuesday, has reportedly told the police that money was owed to him.

A 45-year-old man, who allegedly battered a street dweller to death with a piece of wood on Sunday, was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.