Guyana News

A 36-year-old woman sustained a gunshot wound and cutlass injuries when six armed bandits entered her Lot 13 Gay Park Providence, Greater New Amsterdam home at around 7:30 pm yesterday; she is now a patient at the NA Hospital.

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ROME, (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio  Berlusconi has denied ever paying a woman for sex, as he faces  growing political pressure over lurid allegations that he slept  with a female escort who was paid to attend his parties.

Police constable Kord Sobers on Wednesday testified before Magistrate Ann McLennan that he had seen a Linden man accused of possession hitting a girl before he searched him and found ganja hidden in his crotch.

Matthew Leacock and Andrew Thom, both of Nottinghamshire, Mackenzie, Linden appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer charges of possession of narcotics and an unlicensed firearm.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A band of conspirators in Miami  defrauded the U.S.

Ashley Pieters, the woman charged with causing the death of a man at Broad and Ketley streets two weeks ago by dangerous driving was read additional traffic charges yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Ed McMahon, a fixture on  U.S. late-night television for 30 years as the full-throated  announcer and sidekick for Johnny Carson on NBC’s “The Tonight  Show,” died on Tuesday at age 86, his spokesman said.

A ministerial team recently hosted the first of several planned sub-national consultations on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) at Annai, Lethem and Aishalton in order to solicit support from these Region Nine communities.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A U.S. drone killed  at least 45 Pakistani Taliban militants yesterday when it  struck after a funeral of an insurgent commander killed earlier  in the day, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers’ Union (GPTWU), the union which represents employees in the telecoms sector, is objecting to recent statements made by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) relating to GT&T and the future of the entity.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The United States  and European Union took action against China yesterday for  restricting exports of industrial raw materials, intensifying a  trade struggle at a delicate time for the global economy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said  yesterday his healthcare overhaul needed a public insurance  option to enforce market “discipline,” but stopped short of  saying he would veto legislation without one.

The family of Tulsiram Sukdeo, the man who was severely injured and lost an eye and some of his memory following a boat collision, is working through their lawyer in an attempt resolve the issue.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda’s government  yesterday dismissed the country’s chief financial regulator  over his alleged role in the Allen Stanford fraud case, and  vowed to root out further corruption “cancer” if it existed.

Saying that they are entering new and uncharted territory regarding their sugar trade with the European Union (EU), African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries want the EU to guarantee a smooth transition period, managed in a way that will avoid market disturbance and pressure on prices.

The police said yesterday that they would charge an ex-officer today, several months after he allegedly brutally raped and repeatedly traumatised a teenage girl, who was driven to attempt suicide on Saturday.

Sumintra ‘Lalita’ Ramkellawan and four family members narrowly escaped death early Friday morning when her estranged husband made good on a promise to set her Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant, Corentyne house on fire, in an attempt to kill her.

Years of abuse at the hands of her partner, which heightened after the popular “Radica” chutney songs hit the local airwaves have forced a 33-year-old Blairmont, West Bank Berbice woman into hiding.

City Hall views as alarming, the fact that 41 members of the City Constabulary have chalked up 349 sick days in a single month.