Guyana News

Tax-related issues on Guyana’s side of the Takutu Bridge have already been addressed and certain arrangements will be implemented upon completion of the multi-purpose centre at Lethem since the Guyana Revenue Authority has completed arrangements there.

A man who was charged with murdering his friend following an argument over a compact disc (CD) walked free earlier this week when Justice Diana Insanally upheld the submissions of  his lawyer and ordered the jury to return a not-guilty verdict.

Fourteen recorders specifically designed to be used in courtrooms have arrived in Guyana and will soon be handed over to the judiciary to be used in 14 courtrooms.

A 19-year-old man was yesterday placed on bail to the tune of $225,000 by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to three counts of break and enter and larceny.

Amanda Sooklall, the woman who had sustained the brunt of an attack launched by bandits at Magic Mall at La Grange, West Demerara on May 28, has been discharged from the hospital and is recuperating at home.

Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy on Thursday assured that his ministry is taking the necessary precautions to deal with the HINI flu and he said while Trinidad has announced  one case of the flu there is no need for Guyana to do anything further.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Up to 33 people died and 100 were  wounded as Amazon tribes clashed with Peruvian police yesterday  in escalating protests against the government’s drive to lure  foreign energy and mining companies into the rain forest.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s  top drug cop plans to spend more money on treating addiction  and scale down the “war on drugs” rhetoric as part of an  overhaul of U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Labour saw its popular support  evaporate yesterday after it lost control of all the English  county councils it was defending following heavy defeats in  local elections across the country.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio  Berlusconi said yesterday photos in a Spanish newspaper of  topless women sunbathing at his seaside villa were an invasion  of privacy and his lawyer said he would take legal action.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela stepped up pressure  on television station Globovision yesterday, slapping a $2  million fine on the anti-government channel a day after  pressing charges against its president and raiding his house.

Food for the Poor has once again lent its assistance to those in need, this time to the Aliki Woman’s Group of the Essequibo River, which received a quantity of kitchen utensils on Wednesday at the organisation’s headquarters in Festival City.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed  around 40 people at a mosque in northwest Pakistan yesterday,  as U.S.

-part of school improvement plan The Tucville Primary school on Thursday launched its new reading room as part of its five-year School Improvement Plan (SIP), in an impressive ceremony that stressed the importance of reading.

BISSAU, (Reuters) – Military police in Guinea-Bissau  yesterday killed a government minister who was to be a candidate  in presidential elections and two former ministers in what the  authorities said was a bid to foil a planned coup attempt.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Any credible accusation  of human rights violations committed during the final bloody  phase of Sri Lanka’s war against Tamil Tiger separatists should  be investigated, U.N.

MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Uruguay’s interior minister  was sacked yesterday after television channels showed her  making vulgar comments about the opposition and months after  she drew criticism for a controversial photograph of herself on  the Facebook social networking Internet site.

Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony said Monica Chopperfield who was also known as Lady Guymine was a cultural icon, in his message of condolence on her passing.

School of the Nations and Queen’s College (QC) emerged winners in the second round matches of the GBTI impromptu speaking contest for fourth formers.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  had a blunt, “tough-love” message for Arabs and Israelis that  thrust him deeper into Middle East peacemaking — a tangled web  that bedeviled his predecessors and carries risks for him.