Guyana News

A man was granted his pre-trial liberty in the sum of $200,000 on charges of two counts of carnal knowledge when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Court on Friday before Magistrate Nigel Hawke.

Police at Berbice raided several houses and abandoned buildings and arrested several persons for various offences last week.

The hyped ‘Keep the Peace’ concert featuring Jamaican’s Vybz Kartel and his contingent, the Portmore Empire was cancelled yesterday after the artiste reportedly failed to show.

The poor quality photographs on new national identification (ID) cards have been a major issue during the continuing distribution exercise, to AFC MP David Patterson has noted.

Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Develop-ment Kellawan Lall has disclosed that the Guyana Elections Commissions (GECOM) has indicated that it will be fully prepared for the holding of Local Govern-ment elections by the first quarter of 2010.

Despite enhanced security after a past robbery, bandits have managed to penetrate the postal system twice within the last few months, a sign of worry for Chairman of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) Bishop Juan Edghill who is offering a reward for the arrest of the culprits.

Castellani House is hosting an exhibition and sale of artists’ works for the Christmas season, a news release said.

In spite of the steady progress being made to have its cell phone customers register their SIM cards, the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) will most likely have to extend the deadline for completing this process, its Director of Rate Marketing Gene Evelyn said.

A miner was transferred to the Georgetown Hospital late Friday night, hours after gunmen with bags over their faces shot him in the chest while relieving him of raw gold at 14 Miles, Issano.

The Working People’s Alliance has accused the government of remaining silent on the widespread and routine use of torture by members of the security forces while dismissing such cases as “roughing up”.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of climate  activists marched in Copenhagen yesterday to urge negotiators  at UN talks to agree a strong treaty to fight global warming  but violence marred a rally that began as a carnival.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Critics said the 2003 US  invasion of Iraq said was driven by oil, but United States oil  majors were largely absent from an Iraqi auction of oil deals  snapped up instead by Russian, Chinese and other firms.

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe  was yesterday endorsed to lead his ZANU-PF party for another  five years and vowed to resist demands by his opponents to  reform the country’s security forces.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The presidents of Russia and the  United States agreed yesterday to extend talks to secure a new  pact to cut vast arsenals of nuclear weapons, the Kremlin said yesterday.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – More than 250 million people  risk losing their livelihoods because of dying tropical coral  reefs in what a senior UN environmental economist said   yesterday was part of a double climate crisis facing the world.

There was nation-wide shock yesterday at the sudden passing of Junior Education Minister Dr.

Six Guyanese, convicted in the biggest drug bust in Barbados’ history, were yesterday collectively sentenced to a historic 428 years in prison for the 28 drug offences for which they were found guilty earlier this year.

Public service employees will be getting a 6% retroactive pay increase for this year, Head of the President Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday.

People’s Progressive Party stalwart Brindley Benn, CCH, the father of Public Works Minister Robeson Benn, died yesterday after a brief illness.

After two days of extensive searches, the hunt for the body of the dead miner Michael Leslie, suspected to have drowned in a gorge below the Kaieteur Falls, was terminated on Wednesday afternoon.