Guyana News

MINNEAPOLIS, (Reuters) – Democrat Al Franken, a  satirist turned politician, was declared the winner of a Senate  seat in Minnesota yesterday, clearing the way for President  Barack Obama’s party to secure a critical 60-seat majority in  the U.S.

TEGUCIGALPA, June 30 (Reuters) – Ousted President Manuel  Zelaya vowed yesterday to return to Honduras flanked by  foreign leaders to serve the rest of his term, defying a  warning from a hostile interim leadership that he will be  immediately arrested.

State Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin’s application to reopen the Oliver Hinckson advocating a terrorist act preliminary inquiry (PI) was denied yesterday.

The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has strongly condemned the limitations to the freedom of expression in Honduras, following the recent coup there and the break in   constitutional order.

MORONI, (Reuters) – An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen  with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed  into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it  approached in bad weather early yesterday, officials said.

The Caribbean Community yesterday condemned the military action which it said had interrupted the democratic process in Honduras and contravened the principles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Hours after U.S. troops handed  over full control of Iraq’s cities to its domestic security  forces, a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at  least 30 people yesterday, police said.

A 39-year-old father of two was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of assault, threatening language and ill-treatment of a child.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday  ordered Texas financier Allen Stanford, accused of a $7 billion  fraud, held without bail until trial.

– since amnesty announced, foreign minister says Fifty-three Guyanese were deported from Barbados since the announcement of that country’s immigration policy, according to local immigration records, Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has disclosed.

A Guyanese man, who was last week caught attempting to smuggle cocaine into the US disguised in baking soda, has been remanded to prison.

-accuses Corbin of power play PNCR executive member Aubrey Norton yesterday said that the voting process that saw him being ousted from the chairmanship of the Georgetown District on Sunday was “fraudulent,” and he accused party leader Robert Corbin of influencing the outcome in a bid to retain power ahead of a crucial biennial congress.

The World Bank has approved the readiness plans (R-Plans) for Guyana and Panama, opening the way for both countries to tap grants of up to US$3.6 million for preserving their forests.

An elderly man, who was found naked and barely alive on a dam aback of Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Guyana government yesterday condemned the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya after a military coup and called for his early reinstatement.

“I use to be a trunker [thief who specializes in stealing from vehicles] but I didn’t commit this offence,” stated Richard Craignan, who was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of breaking a policeman’s car window and stealing his cell phone.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded a 48-year-old mason to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with robbing a woman of a pair of gold earrings at knifepoint.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 16-year-old boy be kept in police custody when he appeared before her accused of chopping three men with a cutlass after they interfered with his girlfriend in a disco at Lethem.

Cops want relatives to provide numbers used to call 911 The police are calling on the relatives of persons who drowned in the Abary Creek on May 27 to provide them with the telephone numbers from which repeated calls were made to 911.

A 25-year-old man, who stated that he “unintentionally” hit his grandmother in her face with a telephone in a fit of anger after she had slapped him, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.