Guyana News

-talks ongoing on performance incentive GuySuCo said sugar workers will be paid wage increases from January 1, 2010 and also announced yesterday that efforts are being made to honour retroactive payments as soon as possible.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara man lost his life after the Canter truck he was travelling in slammed into a concrete fence at Number 4 Village, West Berbice yesterday morning.

The Rights of Children (ROC) on Tuesday yesterday launched “Everyday Or-deals”, a kit to confront sexual harassment in Guyanese schools at the National Library Auditorium on Church Street.

A gun, which was stolen from a licensed firearm holder in November, was discovered by police on Wednesday in an alley at North East La Penitence.

– Kartel’s crew touch down More than half of the members of the Portmore Empire, more popularly known as the ‘Gaza Empire,’ arrived yesterday for the ‘Keep the Peace Concert’ scheduled for the National Park tonight.

A Parika man and his son were remanded to prison on Thursday for carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl.

As part of a campaign to ensure the consumption of wholesome food items, the Government Analyst Food & Drug Administration (FDA) seized a quantity of expired good from shops and supermarkets in West Berbice.

A Digicel sales clerk was robbed of more than $100,000 as well as cellular phones and phone cards Wednesday afternoon at Enmore.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – A draft climate pact unveiled  yesterday revived hopes that U.N.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – China yesterday attacked a  top U.S. envoy as either “extremely irresponsible” or lacking in  common sense, for saying at a global summit to tackle warming  that no U.S.

GT&T’s mobile subscribers can now recharge their pre-paid accounts online with the introduction of “Eze-minutes” this Christmas.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey’s top court closed the  only pro-Kurdish party in parliament yesterday for having links  to PKK Kurdish rebels in a ruling that deals a fresh blow to  the country’s faltering bid to join the European Union.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict expressed  “outrage, betrayal and shame” yesterday at the sexual abuse of  children by priests in Ireland, which Church leaders said would  lead to a shake-up of the Irish Roman Catholic Church.

A  Guyanese woman is the first female engineer to be appointed by regional airline LIAT in its 53-year history, the carrier said  in a news release yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Latin American countries yesterday not to get too close to Iran, calling it “a really bad idea” that could have consequences.

-court told A Brazilian national on Thursday appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded two men to prison for a gunpoint robbery.

QUITO (Reuters) – US intelligence from inside Ecuador was used to plan a 2008 bombing by Colombian troops that killed a top FARC guerrilla chieftain inside Ecuadorean territory, the government said on Thursday.

Minister in the Ministry of Education, Dr Desrey Fox passed away at the Georgetown Public Hospital just after 3 this morning.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) will not be supporting a ‘keep the peace’ campaign which was intended for the National Park today with Jamaican dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel prior to a performance here this weekend.