Guyana News

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The CIOG remembers Shri Prakash Gossai as a religious leader “who truly understood the Hindu faith” in its message of condolence on his passing.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (Reuters) – Barbados and  Grenada refused this week to allow passengers to leave a  Spanish cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd  because of fears of an H1N1 flu outbreak, authorities and  shipping sources said yesterday.

ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Yemen is in danger of following  Afghanistan down the path to becoming a safe haven for Islamist  militants, the European Union’s anti-terrorism chief said in an  interview yesterday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – A French woman who confessed to  killing banker Edouard Stern after they had sado-masochistic sex and argued over $1 million was found guilty yesterday of  murder, rather than the lesser charge of a crime of passion.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. inflation numbers  soothed fears of overheating from stimulus spending, China and  Japan offered cautiously upbeat views on their recoveries, and  U.S.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A former Roman Catholic priest  and media celebrity who left the Catholic Church last month  after he was photographed cuddling a woman on a Florida beach  has married his girlfriend, local media reported yesterday.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Iran wants the ability to build  nuclear weapons to gain the reputation of a major power in the  Middle East, the head of the U.N.

-Deportee says he was woken up at 6 am, taken to airport The Guyanese man who was asleep when Barbadian immigration authorities knocked on his door on Friday last is back in Guyana and says he has “no regrets”, and he is already working on a business investment.

Guyana remains on the Tier 2 Watch List compiled by the US State Department in its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for 2009 and has been urged to vigorously prosecute offenders.

After several viewings at the Grace Funeral Home in Brooklyn, New York the body of Sri Prakash Gossai will be cremated tomorrow afternoon.

`Loose meh something nah, ah don’t really like locking up people’ A 32-year-old trainee city constable was yesterday not required to plead to the indictable charge of impersonation when he appeared before Acting Chief Magis-trate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Former People’s National Congress Minister and General Secretary Ranji Chandisingh passed away on Monday afternoon at his Waterloo Street, Georgetown home.

Guyana admits breaching treaty The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has reserved judgment in the closely watched case of Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) and TCL Guyana Incorporated (TGI) against the Guyana Govern-ment over the application of the Common External Tariff.

-neighbours in flaming row Fire of unknown origin yesterday morning reduced a George Street, Werk-en-Rust house to ashes even as the lone occupant and his immediate neighbour, whose house was partially damaged in the blaze, blamed each other.

A route 42 minibus conductor was last evening rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being shot by a passenger, during a robbery attempt.

The manager and part owner of Survival Supermarket was yesterday placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years and ordered to pay $10,000 court costs when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.

The PNCR says the rights the Enmore sugar workers struggled for are under threat as the nation observes the 61st anniversary of their death.

Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali says that strong action will be taken in the next three months to remove and relocate squatters who have taken up residence on the sea defence and government reserves.

Following the theft of fuel and the switching of a battery at the Buxton Pumping Sta-tion, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has written to the community’s Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) requesting that it investigate this matter.