Guyana News

VARANASI, India/WUHAN, China, (Reuters) – A total  solar eclipse yesterday swept across a narrow swathe of  Asia, where hundreds of millions of people watched the skies  darken, though in some places thick summer clouds blocked the  sun.

Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali told a Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) planning workshop that he wants to develop the utility into one that is highly efficient where good governance and customer service are among its hallmarks, by the year 2012.

A man who was accused by Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry of driving in a dangerous manner was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. man has been charged  with giving al Qaeda details about the New York City transit  system and the Long Island Railroad, as well as firing rockets  at American troops in Afghanistan, according to court papers  unsealed yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says the administration will utilize the assistance of an external source to probe the fire which wrecked the Ministry of Health on Friday while declaring that its response to the blaze will not be found wanting.

Following the murder of his mother allegedly at the hands of another sibling on Sunday night, 32-year-old Davendra Deonauth yesterday regretted that the family didn’t take more decisive action to protect his parents from abuse.

In recognition of a sterling contribution to local business, Bulkan Timber Works was yesterday awarded the country Prize in the 2009 Pioneers of Prosperity Caribbean Awards Com-petition.

Police discovered a plastic bottle containing 104 grammes of cocaine at Middle Walk Dam, Plantation Ross, West Coast Berbice yesterday.

A US citizen who had packed cocaine into the soles of his shoes and was attempting to take it out of Guyana was yesterday ordered to pay a fine and to serve a four-year prison sentence.

Leaders of the Alliance for Change believe that the party is slowly assuming the role of the leading opposition party, declaring that it is now a “two-horse race between the AFC and the PPP”.

A 31-year-old man yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of breaking another man’s nose.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Most men would not want to be  in a room with their estranged wife, current girlfriend and two  former mistresses, but Allen Stanford is not most men.

A man accused of stealing a wood carving set from  National Hardware store was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Region Four Senior Superintendent of Works, Stephen Glasgow, was allegedly responsible for the $1.1 million Bobby White Street, Bee Hive North “flimsy” bridge project and he has been asked to explain his actions A letter, dated July 13, 2009, was sent to Glasgow by the Region Four Regional Executive Officer (REO) Shafdar Alli informing him that “It has been discovered and confirmed that the construction of `Bobby [White]’ Bridge…was not built to specification.”

-resident complains about substandard work Repairs are to be undertaken to the washed-away culvert at Mountain Point in the Rupununi.

A certified electrician accused of stealing electricity from the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated was yesterday placed on self-bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit yesterday issued a bulletin for Alan Wills (no address given).

Public sector employees will receive a pay increase this year, although Guyana is feeling the effects of the global financial and economic crisis in its real sector, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said.

University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor Professor Lawrence Carrington says the University of Guyana is preparing a draft response to the Low Carbon Development Strategy even as he stressed the importance of UG serving the society by producing informed opinions based on research related to critical societal issues.

-PRO and Clerk of  Markets also in the dark One of the owners of the three stalls that were dismantled by the Mayor and City Council last Wednesday is furious over the action  taken by the municipality.