Guyana News

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A man who was shot during a  protest in Honduras this week in support of ousted President  Manuel Zelaya died of his injuries yesterday, as efforts to  resolve the crisis over last month’s coup remained stalemated.

The Government last night rejected the testimony of UK executive Peter Myers in a US court that his company sold the spy equipment linked to drug trafficker Roger Khan to the administration, declaring again that it was not a party to any activity with the firm or US authorities in the purchase and or importation of the equipment.

–fourth friend in custody Three men from Covent Garden died yesterday morning when the vehicle they were in slammed into a light pole on the East Bank Demerara Highway near Providence.

President of the Caribbean Development Bank, Professor Compton Bourne O.E. has been appointed as the new Chancellor of the University of Guyana.

Two gun-toting bandits escaped with $6M cash intended for old age and National Insurance Scheme pensioners from the Rose Hall Post Office on the Corentyne at around 2:30 pm yesterday.

“I dare anyone, manufacturer or newspaper owner to prove that I bought a spy equipment!

As traffic flowed between Guyana and Brazil with the provisional opening of the Takutu Bridge yesterday, a Brazilian official expressed the hope that the Lethem to Linden road could be asphalted.

Two bandits on Thursday night robbed a Mahdia businessman of $1.2M and a quantity of raw gold and escaped.

Atlantic Tele-Network (ATN) on Thursday reported that revenue for the second quarter ending June 30, 2009 was up 20% over the same period last year but long distance call revenue for its local subsidiary, GT&T fell by 20% while wireless revenue grew by US$200,000.

Government is spending in excess of $1M to conceal pipelines that were exposed in Region Eight as a result of the actions of miners so that the flow of traffic on the Salbora Road, Mahdia,  could see a major improvement.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP)  has extended best wishes to all Guyanese and in particular to African Guyanese countrymen on “this Freedom Day celebration.”

The PNCR is contending that the 171st Anniversary of Emancipation finds Guyana on the brink of possibly its worst crisis in its post-independence history but the party is urging Guyanese, however, to be resilient and not be overcome by the challenges which beset them.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says that this year’s commemoration of Emanci-pation should be more focused on the significance of freedom and the high  price that has to be paid to maintain it and less on revelry and celebration.

-affirms Auditor General’s position on town clerk, treasurer Commissioner of the Inquiry into City Hall, Keith Burrowes, says that the findings of the probe have shown widespread financial and procedural irregularities regarding the operations of the Council, and confirmed what was noted by the 2006 Auditor General Report, which prompted the investigation in the first place.

As the country observes Emancipation Day, staff of Courts Guyana Inc yesterday joined in the celebrations with their annual emancipation dress competition at the company’s Main Street store.

PPP/C MP, Gail Teixeira on Thursday denounced what she described as donor countries’ interference in Guyana’s internal affairs.

–granted self bail Archie Poole, who was initially held by police for questioning in relation to the Ministry of Health fire, yesterday appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of having a cell phone in the lock-ups.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh says his ministry, through the Cyril Potter College of Education’s (CPCE’s) Distance Education Secondary Academic Certificate Programme at the college’s campus, will upgrade teachers via distance education delivery.

A man who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 15 was on Thursday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 38-year-old labourer who used threatening language to his former wife was on Thursday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.