Guyana News

-calibration of breathalyzers under study The GNBS completed the stamping of 511 scales used for commercial trade as well as 28 petrol pumps last month and is set to start inspections for the last quarter of the year.

The GTM group of insurance companies recently established a branch office in Lethem.

Former New Amsterdam Mayor Errol Alphonso of Penitentiary Walk quickly exited the courtroom on Monday after Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid  discharged two counts of attempted murder against him.

Paul Stephenson heads the new executive council of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) as its president following elections last month.

The Ministry of Education has assigned a head teacher to St Cuthbert’s Secondary School.

Vishaul Persaud, 20, of Lot 13 Palmyra Village, East Canje, Berbice was remanded to prison by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo following  two charges of robbery under arms committed on a fellow villager last Friday.

Donette Skinner, a 36-year-old mother of two of Camp Street, was remanded to prison shortly after she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of damage to property.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Iran ignored a U.N. deadline yesterday to respond to an international draft deal for it to cut  an atomic stockpile the West fears could be used for weapons,  and challenged the basis of the pact. 

Forty-seven-year-old Gordon Beaton of Suddie, Essequibo, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court for allegedly being found with a quantity of cannabis and cocaine in different plastic bags while being a passenger on a bus.

A man who allegedly robbed another man of a cell phone and a bicycle and was allegedly found with a firearm along with a quantity of ammunition without being the owner of a firearm licence was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Nigel Hawke at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Most illegal flights hauling  Colom-bian drugs to Central America and the United States are now  leaving from Venezuela, Colombia’s Defense Minister Gabriel Silva  said yesterday.  

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – An informant in the  Galleon Group insider trading scandal had a history of sending  tips to the firm, according to a court document that surfaced  yesterday.  

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) on Wednesday presented land titles to four Community Forestry Organisations (CFOs) which serve communities that depend on forestry products.

DENVER,  (Reuters) – The kingpin of a violent Mexican  drug smuggling clan has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and  racketeering charges, authorities said yesterday.  

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Roman Catholic bishops  called on corrupt Catholic leaders in Africa yesterday to repent  or resign for giving the continent and the Church a bad name.  

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber  killed eight people outside a key Pakistani airforce facility  yesterday, with officials quick to deny suggestions the target  was linked to the country’s nuclear programme.  

LONDON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Agricultural commodities  could be poised for stardom in 2010 as weather concerns and  alternative fuel needs throw up strong fundamentals, after  lagging other commodity sectors this year.  

QUITO, (Reuters) – Leftist Rafael Correa was elected  president on promises of curtailing the power of Ecuador’s rich  elites.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Despite growing cooperation  between U.S. law enforcement agencies since the Sept.

-but final decision rests with Home Affairs Minister By Iana Seales Government yesterday passed an amendment to the Fugitive Offenders Act 1988 to correct a lacuna in the local extradition laws and it has controversially included a provision which empowers the Home Affairs Minister to decide whether to extradite or not.