Guyana News

Unicomer Guyana Limited, known countrywide as COURTS Guyana Limited, last evening unveiled the renovations made to its main branch in Georgetown as part of a drive to provide “five star customer services” to Guyanese.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is building a new $20M well at Somerset, Region Two to benefit 5,000 residents.

A teenager was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court, charged with having carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration  will press ahead with climate control legislation, despite  difficult odds of passage before December’s international  summit on global warming.  

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) recently provided assistance to three families who suffered losses due to fire.

KABUL, (Reuters) – More than half the top Afghan  district election officials are being replaced to try to  prevent more fraud and produce a credible result in next  month’s presidential run-off vote, U.N.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has commended the public “for the expression of maturity and embracing the principles of religious tolerance during the observance of Diwali … at the Alexander Village Vishnu Mandir.” 

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Top earners at  financial and auto companies bailed out by the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A Briton who cost the insurance  industry some 1.6 million pounds by staging almost 100 car  crashes as part of a scam to win fraudulent payouts, was jailed  for 4-1/2 years yesterday.  

By Oluatoyin Alleyne As in Guyana, there are also mixed reactions in some sections of New York among Guyanese to the idea of President Bharrat Jagdeo possibly running for a third term in office come 2011.

KUWAIT, (Reuters) – Kuwait, where women fought for  years for voting rights, has said married women can obtain  passports without the approval of their husbands, a newspaper  reported yesterday.  

 VIENNA – The U.N. nuclear watchdog presented yesterday a  draft deal to Iran and three world powers for approval within  two days to reduce Tehran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, seen  by the West as a nuclear weapons risk.  

The Guyana Police Force yesterday announced that it has set up a special investigative team to “enquire into the alleged murders which surfaced during the court hearing for drug dealer Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan.”

-Judge revokes bail after sealed info leaked A US judge yesterday revoked former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik’s bail after he  revealed information under seal to a third party.

-ads cutoff to SN noted Guyana has been ranked 39 out of 173 in the latest worldwide Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, which has noted concerns on government’s relations with the press.

Following Sunday morning’s fire, the Guyana Water Inc. says that it was unable to render any assistance to the Guyana Fire Service because it was not informed of the need for help by the Guyana Fire Service.

By Iana Seales Chief Executive Officer of the National Frequency Manage-ment Unit (NFMU), Valmikki Singh, said yesterday that the halt to radio licence applications is temporary to facilitate the processing of the 60 applications currently on file.

Five-year-old Akeem Hinds, who was on Friday night involved in an accident at Moblissa on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, succumbed yesterday to his injuries in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

-video club proprietor charged with receiving stolen property By Ayanna Blair Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a twenty-four-year-old man, who allegedly used a gun to rob another man of a quantity of household items valued over $16.2M, be remanded to prison while she placed the owner of Movie-Town Video Club on $200,000 bail for allegedly receiving one of the stolen items.

By Gaulbert Sutherland Relatives of missing boy, Ricky Jainarine yesterday called for justice during a protest in front of the Leonora Magistrate’s Court even as it was revealed that tests on paint samples – which would establish whether a Coast Guard vessel was involved in the fateful collision – are yet to be done.