Guyana News

The collection of garbage in the city is still on hold as the two companies contracted by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) are yet to reach an agreement with the Council, although a portion of the outstanding debt was paid yesterday.

Patricia Bobb-Semple panicked, grabbed her personal documents and ran out of her Camp Street home yesterday after she heard a loud bang then saw a cloud of smoky dust when a section of the old Plaza Cinema building collapsed yesterday.

Harish Narine Sugrim, owner of the Sugrim line of contracting services and auto sales, was yesterday granted bail to the tune of $1M when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of obtaining money by false pretence.

A military court has ordered that Second Lieutenant Duane Rigby be discharged from duty after he was convicted on Tuesday afternoon for being out of the barracks beyond 18:00 hrs without permission from headquarters on the day Corporal Wesley Hopkinson and Private Colwin Harris died following a boat mishap in the Cuyuni River.

An 18-year-old, accused of attempting to strangle and rob a taxi driver, was remanded to prison when he appeared before the Christiansburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) member, who reportedly sexually assaulted a female civilian staffer attached to the army base at Tacama, is in police custody.

Jordan had offered Guyana scholarships for five students to pursue Islamic Studies via internet video instruction, when President Bharrat Jagdeo visited in March.

Saying that the school is neglected, teachers of President’s College continued their sit-in for a second day yesterday even as students prepare to write their end of school-year-exams today.

A former prison officer was this week sentenced to three years imprisonment after he was found guilty of trafficking in 38 grammes of marijuana on December 7, 2006.

Trust submitted to BoG …in wake of Stanford investment woes The Hand-in-Hand Group of Companies has submitted its plan to restore the capital adequacy of Hand-in-Hand Trust for approval by the Bank of Guyana (BoG).

Following heated debate, the National Assembly on Thursday last adopted the Fourth Periodic Report of the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Economic Services (PSCES).

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday named Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who oversaw the  government’s compensation fund for victims of the Sept.

Refusing to budge from the call for local government polls to be held under a reformed system, the opposition has withheld participation in the parliamentary review of legislative reforms, in a bid to ensure government upholds its commitment to table all of the proposed laws.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress yesterday  suspended two land-use laws that sparked clashes in which 60  people were killed last week, but indigenous people opposed to  development in the Amazon jungle vowed to keep protesting.

Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday announced that cabinet has granted its “no objection” to three awards, including one which is vital for the holding of local government elections.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s highest court, the  House of Lords, ruled against the government yesterday in a  sensitive case involving the use of secret evidence to justify  imposing home curfews on terrorism suspects.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An elderly gunman linked to  an anti-Jewish website killed a security guard at the U.S. 

A 21-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of robbery under arms.

–addresses child labour The National Assembly recently passed two bills which seek to improve the conditions of workers locally.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – A Dutch regional government  stepped down yesterday after it lost 78 million euros ($110  million) in savings at an Icelandic bank unit and a commission  found it did not follow proper procedures.