Guyana News

President Bharrat Jagdeo met with a high-level British team on Thursday to discuss matters related to the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) following the UK’s consistent support of the strategy.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Politically isolated Honduras braced yesterday for months of austerity under the  weight of economic sanctions imposed after a June coup and  ousted President Manuel Zelaya vowed actions to support his  reinstatement.

WASHINGTON Reuters – The CIA withheld information  about a secret counter-terrorism program from Congress for  eight years on orders from former US Vice President Dick  Cheney, the New York Times said Friday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has completed its  investigations into five suspects accused of involvement in last  year’s attack on Mumbai, and they are expected to be put on  trial next week, the interior minister said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) A Bridgetown magistrate has thrown his support behind immigration officers who attend court, saying lurid stories about treatment by officers of Guyanese do not apply to them.

Alliance For Change leader Raphael Trotman yesterday issued a public challenge to President Bharrat Jagdeo to debate him on the involvement of drug lords in political parties, but the Office of the President says that the President “does not debate political aspirants such as those residing in the AFC”.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday expressed concern that Berbicians have been experiencing “great difficulties” since last Sunday owing to electricity generation problems which have impacted water supply to all consumers, including the hospitals.

Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn has sent a senior  officer in Region Four on leave and has ordered an investigation into the misuse of road works funds after an access bridge at Bee Hive on the East Coast of Demerara was found to be fragile and useless.

Thirty-year-old Cobina Barker also known as Alex Barker, who had been a fugitive for more than a year, was yesterday placed before the courts charged with the murder of his former wife Roselaine Hall.

The man accused of abusing ‘Radica’ was finally arrested and charged at the Weldaad Court and Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop remanded him to prison on that count as well as in relation to robbery under arms and simple larceny.

A 28-year-old man who allegedly had carnal knowledge of an 11-year-old girl was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The 16-year-old boy who allegedly caused the death of Lilowtie Persaud by dangerous driving was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

With questions raised over the integrity of the PNCR’s Georgetown District Conference polls, prospective candidate for party leader, Dr Richard Van West-Charles has proposed reforms for the conduct of party elections during its upcoming Biennial Congress.

The trio charged with having stolen a GPL transformer made another court appearance before Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on June 29.

A mother of one who allegedly had in her possession a quantity of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

‘… I had a good night’s rest in the lock-up and I got a chance to preach to the prisoners’ A pastor of the Revival Mission Ministries who allegedly obtained money by false pretence was yesterday placed on self-bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A father of four is concerned over the sudden death of his 31-year-old wife at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Thursday, the cause of death being Dengue fever with Leptospirosis being a contributing factor.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is calling for the Government to immediately increase wages and salaries of public servants to at least $70,000 monthly, while also urging the government to address the issue of unemployment in the country.

DETROIT, (Reuters) – A new General Motors emerged  from bankruptcy protection yesterday — far more quickly than  most industry watchers had expected — as a leaner automaker  pledging to win back American consumers and pay back  taxpayers.

–as GHARP 2 launched Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says he will not allow international partners who join the national effort aimed at preventing HIV infections, to create parallel programmes that cannot be sustained when they pull out of the country because “he has seen it happen before and it is unacceptable”.