Guyana News

L’AQUILA, Italy, (Reuters) – Leaders from rich  nations at the G8 summit in Italy will commit $15 billion over  three years to spur agricultural investment in poorer countries  and combat hunger, a final draft statement seen by Reuters said.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s top security  official will quit this month, forcing President Alvaro Colom  to fill the post for the fourth time since he took office in  2008 as he battles drug gang violence.

A 19-year-old girl who allegedly laced her parents’ food with sleeping tablets in order to stage her own abduction so she could  benefit from a ransom was on Wednesday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A Chinese firm started work on a  copper deposit in Afghanistan yesterday, part of a  multi-billion dollar project and the first major foreign  investment of its kind in Afghan history, an official said.

MOSUL, Iraq,  (Reuters) – Bombs in Baghdad and  northern Iraq killed at least 50 people yesterday, police  said, underscoring doubts about local forces’ ability to keep  Iraqis safe after U.S.

An 18-year-old boy who is accused of stabbing a man with a scissors, resulting in him being hospitalized, was remanded to prison  by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – A group of companies from Europe  and northern Africa will meet in Munich on Monday to map out  concrete steps for a series of large-scale renewable energy  projects worth 400 billion euros ($560 billion) over 40 years.

-even though complainant falls on knees and begs for him At the Springlands Court yesterday, Magistrate Krishndat Persaud sentenced a labourer to six months imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife even as the woman begged for him to be spared.

Hururu loggers told a team spearheading sub-national consultations on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) that they were concerned that supporting the Strategy may jeopardize their livelihoods, when the latest round of meetings were hosted on Monday in the riverain community.

Fifty-eight-year old Radyah Escorce who died on July 1 after being hit by a motorcycle was said to have sustained a fractured skull along with a broken neck and arms.

L’AQUILA, Italy,  (Reuters) – A G8 summit made scant  progress towards a new U.N.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Some Central American countries  are experiencing more gun killings now than during their civil  wars and face serious security threats from firearms in civilian  hands, the Small Arms Survey report released yesterday showed.

GPL has started to upgrade and convert its network’s frequency in several parts of the city and has warned customers that they may need to convert their equipment from 50Hz to 60Hz to avoid failure.

Students from two communities in regions one and seven are set to benefit from tutoring from a batch of 10 volunteer Canadian teachers.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Brazil said yesterday it would  give Cuba up to $300 million in credits to start rebuilding the  island’s port of Mariel, better known as the site of a 1980  Cuban exodus to the United States.

Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said President Bharrat Jagdeo and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds met on Wednesday with officials from Caribbean Airlines to discuss the airline’s airfare structure and its customer service.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica,  (Reuters) – The two rivals for  power in Honduras started a dialogue through a mediator yesterday, but there was no face-to-face meeting or breakthrough  to solve the political crisis sparked by last month’s coup.

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud has refuted suggestions that the consultants contracted to survey the site for the Hope Canal – to relieve the pressure on the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) – discovered faults with the proposal for the site.

LONDON, (Reuters) – It may have had one of the  wettest premieres in memory this week, but that did little to  dampen critics’ enthusiasm for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood  Prince”, the sixth film in the blockbuster franchise.

Magistrate Ann McLennan issued arrest warrants for two Linden drivers who failed to appear in court on Tuesday to answer to charges for traffic offences.