Guyana News

-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. 

The body of a 56-year-old Brazilian, who police say died after a boat collision in the Cuyuni River, was found in the Ekereku River on Monday afternoon.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the GFA Consulting Group GmbH of Germany on Monday inked an agreement totalling $197 million to foster and enable private sector entrepreneurship into agribusiness.

The Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP) will be continuing its programme of public meetings to demand an international inquiry into the State’s alleged involvement in criminality, and has set out a schedule to this effect, a release said.

By Shabna Ullah At the Blind Cricket competition and exhibition at Seafield, West Berbice earlier this month members of the Disabled People’s Network (DPN) were happy with the reaffirmation of government’s commitment to have the legislation tabled in parliament “during this session.”

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a GDF Lance Corporal be remanded to prison after he was involved in the motor accident at Amelia’s Ward, Linden in May that claimed the life of a woman who was riding a motorcycle.

Twenty-one-year-old Tracy Samantha Allicock of Lot 75 Breda Street, Werk-en-Rust was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly being found with a quantity of cocaine in her suitcase at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is expecting Mash 2010 to be bigger than ever with the traditional festivities and an added “special dimension.”

Caricom countries are expecting the first shipment of the HINI vaccine late next month as they prepare for more attacks from the HINI or swine flu virus.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) will broadcast a special edition of its ‘Customer Alert’ television programme tonight, dealing with metering and how to read the GWI bill.

International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) is in the process of constructing a 5-storey, multi-million dollar complex on Camp Street, opposite the Georgetown Club, which will be used as a general office building and will in part house a shopping mall.

KABUL, (Reuters) – President Hamid Karzai agreed to  face a second round of voting in Afghanistan’s disputed  election yesterday after a U.N.-led

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s Supreme Court  lifted a constitutional barrier on Monday to President Daniel  Ortega seeking re-election, opening the way to the leftist  running for another term in the 2011 election.  

LUXEMBOURG, (Reuters) – Talks on a new U.N. climate  deal stumbled yesterday when European Union finance ministers  failed to agree funds for poor countries and India reiterated  demands for aid to help curb its emissions. 

NIAMEY, (Reuters) – West Africa’s regional bloc yesterday suspended Niger in protest against what it said were  flawed parliamentary elections being held there.  

VIENNA, (Reuters) – High-stakes talks between Iran  and big powers that stalled yesterday will resume today  and the U.N.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Taliban  militants attacked Pakistani forces and recaptured a strategic  town yesterday while two suicide bomb blasts at an Islamic  university in the capital killed six people and wounded at  least 20, officials said.  

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world needs genetically  modified crops both to increase food yields and minimise the  environmental impact of farming, Britain’s top science academy  said yesterday.  

Former Stabroek News court reporter Judith Gildharie-Mursalin was admitted to the Guyana Bar as an attorney-at-law recently.