Guyana News

PNCR leader Robert Corbin has threatened party executive Aubrey Norton with a libel suit over accusations made about the controversial Georgetown District Confer-ence voting last Sunday.

Eighty-five-year-old former radio broadcaster, Patricia Cameron, better known as ‘Aunty Pat’, will be cremated on Monday in the US following her death in a US hospital on Tuesday.

–Commonwealth Secretary General Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma says the Doha Development Round of trade talks has been disappointing because it is not very clear what the negotiations have offered to small and vulnerable states, and he called yesterday for the talks when renewed to spell out effectively what is there potentially for the developing world.

The Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference of Caricom Heads opens in Georgetown today with at least fourteen Heads of Government expected to be in attendance and the treatment of illegals likely to be a hot topic along with whether the integration movement was in a major crisis.

The U.S. Air Force medical team in collaboration with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Ministry of Health has embarked on a programme of health care for the public.

A 29-year-old electrician yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of unlawful and malicious assault.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Former Philippine President  Corazon Aquino, who is battling colon cancer, is badly ill in  hospital, a spokeswoman said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A vicar was charged yesterday  with two offences related to helping arrange 180 “sham  marriages” that helped illegal immigrants stay in Britain, the  UK Border Agency and police said.

A 58-year-old woman died following an accident which occurred in the city last evening.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Oscar winner Karl Malden,  the character actor acclaimed for film roles in “A Streetcar  Named Desire” and “On the Waterfront” before gaining TV fame as  a leading man in “The Streets of San Francisco,” died yesterday at age 97.

A 53-year-old man who is alleged to have indecently assaulted a 16-year-old girl was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

ACUME, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexican drug traffickers  fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers  who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics’ untouchable  aura and breaking honor codes in the world’s second-biggest  Catholic country.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Roraima Group of Companies, Captain Gerald Gouveia was returned unopposed as Chairman of the Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) at the Commis-sion’s 17th Annual General Meeting held at Duke Lodge, Duke Street, Kingston on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has  put Ecuador on notice that it could lose valuable U.S.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The Honduran interim  government defied international pressure yesterday and vowed  there was “no chance at all” of ousted President Manuel Zelaya  returning to office.

Guyana’s first ever Agriculture Market Information Service (AMIS) was launched yesterday with the aim of allowing farmers, agro-processors, exporters, agri-business investors and Guyanese in general to access the market prices of commodities through the use of the Short Messaging Service (SMS) offered by Digicel.

LOWER HELMAND RIVER VALLEY, AFGHANIS-TAN, (Reuters) –  U.S. Marines launched a helicopter assault early yesterday in  the lower Helmand river valley in southern Afghanistan,  spokesman Capt.

Royston Waldron of Friendship, East Bank Demerara reappeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, when the preliminary inquiry (PI) into charges of robbery under arms and harbouring wanted man Rondel ‘Fineman’ Rawlins and others continued.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Two losing contenders in Iran’s  presidential election denounced the result yesterday in clear  defiance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s next cabinet would be illegitimate.

Contact the police A number of suspected stolen items are now in police custody.