Guyana News

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A constitutional crisis in  Honduras deepened yesterday after the supreme court rejected  President Manuel Zelaya’s firing of the top military officer in  a dispute over Zelaya’s quest to allow presidents to serve more  than a single four-year term in office.

-2007 Auditor General report The Report of the Auditor General for 2007 has revealed that the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) failed to observe the requirements of the Procurement Act for its capital works but the department has since assured that it has taken corrective action.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Farrah Fawcett,  the “Charlie’s Angels” television star whose big smile and  feathered blond mane made her one of the reigning sex symbols  of the 1970s, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. 

Scotiabank is conducting voluntary HIV counselling and testing today in observance of Regional Testing Day 2009, at its branches in Guyana and throughout the Caribbean.

A Stabroek Market stall holder is now counting his losses following a break-in at his stall on Wednesday  night  by thieves in which approximately $3M worth of DVD players, mobile phones and tape decks  among other electrical items were stolen.

-residents nervy The body of the businessman, who was ambushed and killed along the UNAMCO trail on Tuesday, was riddled with bullet holes, with at least three large wounds that appeared to have been fired at close range.

Guyana has instructed its Consulate in Barbados to compile reported cases of early morning raids on the homes of Guyanese resident on the island and to follow-up on the offer made by Prime Minister David Thompson to investigate such allegations.

-lover confesses to murdering her – sources The badly decomposed body of 29-year-old Arifa Muntazali of Number 64 Village, Corentyne has been discovered at Chesney Backdam, Corentyne and a man with whom she shared a relationship has admitted to killing her.

-signs point to murder The body found at the back of the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri, on Tuesday has been identified as that of a missing Campbellville man, who, according to relatives, was brutally murdered.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The Belgian teenager who made  headlines across the globe after claiming a tattoo artist had  drawn 56 stars on her face, rather than the three she asked for,  has admitted she lied.

Two persons have been arrested in connection with the Gay Park, Greater New Amsterdam robbery on Monday evening which left 34-year-old Mohanie Latiff nursing gunshot and chop wounds at the NA Hospital.

The owner of the car which allegedly caused the death of a man at Broad and Ketley streets two weeks ago was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $30,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of a breach of insurance and permitting an unlicensed driver.

LONDON, (Reuters) – People have been making music  for more than 35,000 years, judging by prehistoric bird-bone  flutes excavated in southwest Germany.

The body of a man of Chinese descent was yesterday morning found in a house on America Street.

LUSAKA, (Reuters) – A monkey urinated on Zambian  President Rupiah Banda as he spoke to journalists at a news  conference yesterday.

EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject  to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or  take pictures in Tehran.

Ann Noel, the fifteenth person charged in the Fidelity Polar beer scam was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $95,000 when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – South Carolina Governor Mark  Sanford tearfully admitted yesterday he had been unfaithful  to his wife, likely ending any chance he might be a Republican  contender for the U.S.

Government is appalled at the discrepancy in airfare structures which persons face for travel to the United States (US) and nearby Caribbean territories compared to those charged in other countries, and has vowed to seek explanations from any airline with such an unfair practice.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Operators of an unauthorized  New York airport van service that took five French tourists on  a high speed chase in an attempt to evade police were charged  yesterday with unlawful imprisonment.