Guyana News

Government has greenlighted a $700 million contract towards the modernization programme of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority.

BRUSSELS/ARE, Sweden (Reuters) – Rich countries  should immediately mobilise billions of dollars in development  aid to the poorest nations to win their trust in the run-up to  global climate talks in Copenhagen, a draft EU report says. 

USLAS MANOS, Honduras (Reuters) – Defying US  criticism, ousted President Manuel Zelaya returned for a second  day to Honduras’  land border to try to put pressure on the coup  leaders who threw him out of the country last month.  

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s opposition urged senior  clerics yesterday to help secure the release of people  arrested following June’s disputed presidential election, after  a protester died in prison. 

LONDON (Reuters) – The Libyan government has  formally asked Scotland for the compassionate release of the  former Libyan agent jailed for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the  Scottish government said yesterday.  

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown came  under attack from within his own Labour Party yesterday, as  some blamed him for its latest humiliating electoral defeat. 

-President releases 17 plots for range of enterprises Government has given the green light for land to be allocated in the Lethem commercial district even as increased traffic is expected in the Region Nine border community with the Takutu Bridge due to be provisionally opened within two weeks.

– prison service concerned over poison reports Murder accused David Leander called ‘Biscuit’ and ‘David Zammet’, died yesterday around 9.30 am in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where he was admitted last Thursday after he was suspected to have been poisoned.

A 22-year-old mini-bus conductor ap-peared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with the murder of Rajpattie Jagroop, who was stabbed to death on Tuesday night, and was remanded to prison.

Arshad Ali, who had been accused of setting fire to a One Mile, Parika home in May, 2006 which caused the deaths of three persons, was found not guilty by a jury last evening.

Thirty-three-year-old Ravindra Siew, of  Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the July 19 murder of his 55-year-old mother Ramrattie Deonauth.

A 23-year-old labourer of Abary Creek has been missing since June 3 and while the mother of his two children is still hopeful that he will turn up alive she fears that foul play has befallen him.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon on   Thursday told reporters that the likelihood of local government polls this year is now dim.

-shots exchanged with police By Cathy Richards Drama ensued after a gunman staged a daring daylight robbery at Digicel’s flag store at Republic Avenue, Linden yesterday afternoon making off with an undisclosed sum of cash and ‘Bimmer’ flex cards after firing at persons who attempted to pursue him.

Phone service at Bartica has been affected by a lightning strike that occurred on Wednesday.

A thirty-five-year-old Eccles resident died yesterday following an early morning accident.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Thursday remanded to prison a 31-year-old Brazilian national accused of stealing a quantity of clothing, DVDs and cosmetics from a man’s home.

Heston Bostwick, who was wanted, along with Archie Poole, by police for questioning in relation to “an investigation”, turned himself in to police yesterday.

Following the discovery of a sea defence breach at sections of Belladrum/Foulis and Plantation Brahan, West Berbice a few days ago, residents are calling for it to be fixed urgently as “the entire community is under threat.”

In light of the Stanford debacle, the Antiguan government has broadened the scope of the internal investigation of the island nation’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC).