Guyana News

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of women have  rallied to demand the death penalty for a man who shackled a  girl with dogs for 18 years and abused her, the Ethiopian News  Agency (ENA) reported yesterday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted a 22-year-old butcher accused of assault $25,000 bail when he on Thursday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has expressed shock at the brutal killing of one of its political candidates and his wife whose badly decomposed bodies were discovered in the north western parish of Trelawny late Wednesday, confirming fears of family members that the couple had been killed.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela pulled the plug yesterday on a publicity campaign against the left-wing  government’s proposed changes to property legislation that  critics dub “the Cuban law.”

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson remanded to prison a security guard accused of assaulting his wife, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge.

WANA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A U.S. drone aircraft  fired missiles yesterday into Pakistan’s South Waziristan  region, killing 10 militants, officials said, ahead of an  expected Pakistani military offensive in the area.

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was declared in good health after biopsies were conducted on lumps found on her breast and groin, her press secretary said yesterday.

-but Caricom credibility at stake He wasn’t inscribed as one of the scheduled speakers for the opening ceremony but former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson galvanized the audience last evening at the National Cultural Centre when he warned that the disintegration of Caricom was not an option but that its credibility had been wounded by failure to implement solemn declarations year after year.

The persistent setbacks in Caribbean integration and a growing immigration debate dominated the opening of the heads of government conference here yesterday as leaders grappled with the pressing issues threatening a unified CARICOM.

– judge slams police over suppressed evidence Ashanti Schultz, who was accused of murdering a man during a shooting on Main Street in September 2007, was yesterday freed of the charge.

–small planes usually land, miners sayBy Cathy Richards Members of the Joint Services have taken possession of a quantity of aviation fuel, which was discovered on the “cattle trail” in the vicinity of the UNAMCO Road in Region Ten.

The dignitaries are in town. Barred roads, heavily armed police, motorcades, blaring sirens and a protest accentuated this fact as the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) opened in Georgetown yesterday.

Thirty-seven-year-old Trevor Garraway was on Wednesday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly choking and robbing a woman of a quantity of gold jewellery, among other items.

Three men were yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $200,000 each when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of break and enter and larceny.

A high-profile prisoner, outraged that he was not granted bail, hurled a book at Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond as he was leaving the ‘further remand centre’ in New Amsterdam at around 11:40 am yesterday.

A group of women from Mahdia in Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) which functions under the name ’Women on the Move’, will benefit from training in the operation  of machinery such as bulldozers and bobcats through funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

The decomposed body of 57-year-old Edward Merchant was found late yesterday afternoon in his 118 Greenheart Street, Mackenzie, Linden home.

The Ministry of Health yesterday morning dispatched a team of health workers to Region One (Barima/Waini) following the deaths of four persons after gastro-like diarrhoea and vomiting.

-accused on station bail The 19-year-old waitress of Hong Chinese Restaurant at Canefield, Canje who was stabbed at around 9:30 pm on Monday, was discharged from the New Amsterdam hospital yesterday while her alleged attacker was released on $10,000 station bail.

-says governance issues crucial The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is at a crossroad and governance issues are very important, Trinidad Prime Minister Patrick Manning declared yesterday in Georgetown.