Guyana News

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is urging the public to celebrate the Festival of Lights and to reflect on the message of the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil.

The PPP is urging Hindus and the nation to use the period of Diwali for introspection and to seek ways to elevate themselves spiritually to acquire wisdom.

Elderly Hindus in Berbice recalled that Diwali – the Festival of Lights around the 1970s was celebrated in a more humble manner with persons going to the “seaside to dig mud to make the earthen lamps [diyas].”

After being incarcerated for five years and enduring  four Preliminary Inquiries, murder accused Allan Eric Joe walked out of the New Amsterdam Courtroom a free man yesterday after his case was discharged by Magistrate Geeta Chandan Persid.

A 50-year-old taxi driver accused of causing the death of a man by dangerous driving was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court.

A 37-year-old labourer accused of unlawfully and maliciously wounding another was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 52-year-old tailor accused of receiving four stolen car rims from another was yesterday placed on $40,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund founder  Raj Rajaratnam and executives from some of the most prestigious  U.S.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC said it  would boycott the country’s power-sharing government until  sticking points have been resolved and a political deal is  reached, sparking the biggest crisis since the administration  was formed nine months ago.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Iranian bloggers won a major  press award yesterday for their efforts to cover the Islamic  Republic’s disputed presidential election.

NEW DELHI/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – India softened  climate demands on Friday, helping bridge a rich-poor divide,  but said a global deal may miss a December deadline by a few  months.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistani warplanes  and artillery pounded a Taliban stronghold yesterday, as a  suicide bomber killed 12 people in the city of Peshawar in the  latest in a bloody wave of militant attacks.

Drug smuggler Shaheed Roger Khan was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on charges of drug smuggling, witness tampering and gun possession in Vermont at 3 pm today at the US Eastern District Court in Brooklyn.

-PM tells Parliament By Mark McGowanFrom November 5, there should be a return to normalcy in the country’s electricity supply Prime Minister Sam Hinds told the National Assembly last evening.

-crew rescued A fishing boat collided with the North-West passenger ferry, MV Barima, on Wednesday night and sank but no one was injured.

By Cathy Richards The Parent-Teachers Asso-ciation of St. Aidan’s Primary School has expressed disgust at the slothfulness of the Department of Education and the Regional Administration in addressing problems  of mosquito infestation and the non-supply of water at the school.

-says CCJ insulated from interference Reacting to statements made by President Bharrat Jagdeo that it could possibly wield influence over the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) said on Wednesday it is disturbed by the suggestion saying the President is “well aware” of the arrangements in place to insulate the court from interference.

How and why, three crew members of the Island Princess were shot in the head and disembowelled are the questions that seem to have no answers but local police are awaiting the arrival of the vessel here to commence investigations with the hope that some clues may be found.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has been invited to deliver a keynote address on Guyana’s Low-Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) at Trent University, Canada.

A 38-year-old minibus driver accused of telling the mother of his child that he would shoot and kill her was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.