Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – British far-right leader Nick Griffin denied yesterday he was a Nazi during a television  debate which provoked political uproar, as police scuffled with  anti-racist demonstrators outside the studio.  

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Northwest Airlines flight  carrying 144 passengers from San Diego to Minneapolis lost  contact with air controllers for more than an hour and overflew  its destination by 150 miles (241 km), officials said yesterday.  

PARIS, (Reuters) – The 23-year-old son of French  President Nicolas Sarkozy has dropped his bid to run the agency that oversees Paris’s wealthy business district, saying yesterday he wanted to remove any suspicion of nepotism. 

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – U.S. and Guatemalan  authorities captured a makeshift submarine loaded with an  estimated 10 tonnes of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean off  Guatemala, Guatemalan police said yesterday.  

The government Analyst, Food and Drug Administration offices are being relocated from the IAST building at UG’s Turkeyen Campus to the former GWI headquarters in Kingston.

NASSAU, (Reuters) – A Bahamian lawmaker who caused a  judge to order the retrial of two people accused of trying to  extort $25 million from actor John Travolta was just repeating  a “rumour” when he prematurely announced an acquittal verdict,  his lawyer said yesterday.  

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters Life!) – A small group of  Michael Jackson’s dedicated fans have started an “awareness”  campaign surrounding the upcoming movie “This is It,” saying it  covers up the grim reality of the dead pop star’s final days.  

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. rapper Lil Wayne pleaded  guilty yesterday to attempted criminal possession of a weapon  in a July 2007 incident and will serve a year in prison, New  York City prosecutors said.  

A 28-year-old man accused of having sex with a girl under the age of 12 was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Guyana and Venezuela last evening inked a US$18.8M ($3.7B) rice purchase agreement that will see 50,000 tonnes of locally produced rice being supplied to that country in the next few months at a price higher than current export prices.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has a list of some 60 persons killed from January 2002 to June 2003 to submit to the special team set up by the police to investigate murders allegedly committed by drug convict Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan.

Following a two-day binge during which he repeatedly physically abused his wife and children, a 26-year-old man was found dead in his Berbice home on Monday. 

Relatives of clothes/cap vendor Xuan Husler who was fatally stabbed during a reported row over $40 dollars are rejecting that scenario and are saying he was killed in circumstance still unknown.

Actual production of national ID cards is scheduled to commence on Monday and distribution will begin soon after, the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) ann-ounced yesterday. 

Three more persons including a prominent businessman are aiding the police in their investigations into the Island Princess saga as its owner Errol Prince continues to question how the vessel ended up in Grenada and what could have led to the brutal murder of three crew members.

-says rethinking investment A businessman who has invested millions of dollars in the economy is contemplating quashing his venture over what he describes as “constant harassment” by traffic ranks.

Oil company, SOL Guyana, one of the largest independent oil companies in the Caribbean, yesterday commissioned its first branded Shell Service station at Ramsburg, Providence on the East Bank of Demerara. 

Eight-year-old Sunil Singh, the Mahaicony Primary School student who was hit by a canter truck while waiting to cross the Mahaicony Public Road two weeks ago, passed away shortly after lunch yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Karen DeSouza of Red Thread says the boy caught up in the child solicitation allegations being made against Office of the President Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy, needs to come forward and speak with the authorities since his statement would be useful to the police investigation.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), the main union for sugar workers, yesterday rejected an offer made by GuySuCo of a three percent wage increase for workers, as  negotiations resumed yesterday between the two entities.