Guyana News

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it  would start a uranium enrichment programme and weaponize all its  plutonium in response to fresh UN sanctions, which the United  States said it would work vigorously to enforce.

MACAU (Reuters) – Indian epic film Jodhaa Akbar  scooped top honours in India’s version of the Oscars at a  ceremony in the Chinese gambling haven of Macau yesterday.

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud says that several steps have been taken by the government to reduce piracy off Guyana’s shores and he urges persons in the fishing industry to take full advantage of the systems that have been put in place.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that a number of “weighty issues” such as climate change, the global financial crisis, the tourism sector and agriculture in the region are expected to be high on the agenda for the upcoming Caricom Heads of Government Conference.

(Trinidad Express) Govern-ment has taken full control of cash-strapped CL Financial and replaced its beleaguered chairman, Lawrence Duprey, from the helm of the insurance and real estate conglomerate.

-down 11% in ‘difficult’ year The Demerara Distillers Limited Group says that 2008 was one of its most difficult in recent times and after tax profit of $789.2M was 11% less than 2007’s $885.2M in a year in which there was also heavy borrowing.

-husband taken into custody A 50-year-old Cornelia Ida (CI) woman, after suffering more than a decade of abuse at the hands of her reputed husband, was stabbed to death yesterday afternoon.

Two of the three men implicated in the murders of Romeo De Agrella and his son Clint De Agrella yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Court.

-had been accused of threatening woman A 48-year-old West Berbice man, described as a drug addict was shot dead at around 11 am yesterday after he ran at police officers with a cutlass when they tried to arrest him for threatening a woman.

A 28-year-old Guyana Chron-icle employee was shot late Thursday night allegedly by a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) corporal and is currently hospitalized at a city hospital.

 “I can’t remember is wha happen,” Sharmin McKay whispered from her High Dependency Unit (HDU) bed yesterday.

The US government has offered details of what was seized from the law office of Roger Khan’s former attorney, Robert Simels last year, saying on Thursday that it had recovered a surveillance device and its operational software, and two laptop computers on which the software had been installed.

Jason Fraser is wanted by the police in relation to drug trafficking and an arrest warrant has been issued for him by the court. 

The University of Guyana (UG) has announced the Sunday opening hours of its Turkeyen Campus library.

-PNCR The main opposition PNCR says the alleged link between Health Minister Dr.

The Public Utilities Commission yesterday expressed strong concern over  “the severe disruptions”  in GT&T’s voice and data services  on Thursday at approximately 11:00am,  and warned that if there are repeated interruptions  it may recommend that other providers be issued with licences allowing for international connectivity.

-no debt resolution as yet The Georgetown Mayor and City Council is yet to reach an agreement with the two companies contracted to collect refuse in the city.

An unlicensed driver, who was reportedly learning how to drive, crashed into a group of persons at the corner of Broad and Ketley streets yesterday, fatally hitting one man and injuring another.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Rich countries may act on  their own to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a  carbon market they hope will lure in poor nations even if U.N. 

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A forensic pathologist who  oversaw a second autopsy on “Kung Fu” star David Carradine’s  body at the direction of his family suggested yesterday that  the death was not a suicide but declined to say why.