Guyana News

President Bharrat Jagdeo gained support for his Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) from movie star and avid environment activist Harrison Ford at the launch of Team Earth in Greely Square, New York on Monday.

The three West Berbice children, whose mother died after her lover reportedly forced poison down her throat, have been placed in new homes and are back at school again.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has chided President Bharrat Jagdeo for his recent “attack” against City Mayor Hamilton Green, adding that the meeting with city officials “behind the back of the Mayor”, makes a mockery of the Office of the Mayor and the process which led to him being elected to office.

-no evidence linking them to crime Investigators have apparently reached a dead end their investigation into the September 5, 2009 shooting in the North West that left one man dead and another injured as the two men who were arrested in connection with the incident have since been released.

A fire of unknown origin gutted a wooden cottage in minutes, at Lot 55 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam just before 9 pm on Monday, while the lone occupant, Charlie Grant was absent from the premises.

An $8.5 million student dormitory that will house around 60 female students was recently commissioned at Paramakatoi, Region Eight by Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai.

A scrap iron dealer was yesterday granted bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of breaking and entering a man’s storage bond and stealing a quantity of car parts.

The Guyana Water Incorpo-rated (GWI) is airing a special edition of its television programme Customer Alert featuring discussions on water quality today.

The Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) will be meeting residents of New Amsterdam on Saturday.

The National Library said it welcomes to its collection a copy of Marva Parkinson Gullins’s doctoral document titled ‘Women of the Bible – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’.

A former policeman, who allegedly broke and entered the Central Immigra-tion and Passport Office, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– chief magistrate Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson’s ruling last Thursday that the Polar beer case would remain indictable was not based on any advice.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) recently elected a new Central Executive Committee.

Two men who were allegedly found with cannabis in their possession for the purpose of trafficking in separate incidents in Port Kaituma were remanded to prison on Monday by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The criminal sessions in the Berbice Assizes formally closed yesterday with 17 prisoners awaiting trial at the New Amsterdam Prison.

The Guyana Deaf Community is hosting an evening of drama, dance and fashion at the Theatre Guild Playhouse on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – An impatient US President Barack Obama scolded Israeli and Palestinian leaders yesterday for not doing more to unblock the peace process and urged them to relaunch negotiations soon.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, US prosecutors said on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was having a tent pitched on property owned by Donald Trump in suburban New York yesterday until local officials stopped the work because it violated regulations, a town attorney said.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran security forces clashed yesterday with thousands of supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya outside Brazil’s embassy, where he took refuge after slipping back into the country aiming to retake power.