Guyana News

PIKALYOVO, Russia, (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister  Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated a top oligarch yesterday,  accusing him and other factory owners in a crisis-hit town of  greed and likening them to “cockroaches”.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson remanded to prison a technician charged with break and enter and larceny after he was allegedly found under his neighbour’s bed with items he had been about to steal.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela is preparing to  nationalize petrochemical projects and yesterday said it  seized property of a U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two British men were handed jail  sentences totalling 75 years yesterday for the torture and  murder of two French students during what prosecutors described  as an “orgy of bloodletting” in the students’ London flat.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – U.S. actor David Carradine was  found dead, naked and hanging from a rope in the closet of his  luxury Bangkok hotel room yesterday, Thai police said.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Pop diva Whitney Houston will  release a new album in September, her first in seven years, Arista  Records said yesterday, announcing the long-awaited comeback for  the talented but troubled star.

Distinguished Guyanese linguist Dr Richard Allsopp has died. He passed away last evening at a hospital in Barbados following a period of illness.

-found with cash, gold A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer and three ranks who allegedly robbed a mining camp in Region One last week are now in police custody after they were found with a large amount of cash and a quantity of gold in their possession.

One of the four Canadians charged with drug trafficking, last week pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison while the other three were released on the advice of the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

-utility still mum Fed up with the situation, Lethem residents yesterday protested in front of the Lethem Power Company (LPC) offices as the electricity woes in the border community continued and Executive Director of the utility, John Fredericks refused to comment when contacted.

The police are looking for a suspect who is believed to be behind the shooting incident in which 8-year-old Christine Reevers of Dakara, Linden-Soesdyke Highway sustained five pellet wounds to her neck  and shoulders on Monday afternoon.

A former prison officer who was attached to the New Amsterdam penitentiary, and is now an inmate there, was found guilty by Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond of trafficking in narcotics and introducing narcotics into the prison.

An accident last night involving a minibus and an MMC Security Force pick-up has left several persons nursing minor injuries.

After being allegedly assaulted and wrongfully arrested by two policemen, two Plaisance residents are now crying out for justice saying that they were treated unfairly by the police.

LONDON/NUSA DUA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – It could save  the rainforests of Borneo, slow climate change and the  international community backs it.

In excess of $3B is to be spent on enhancing the country’s water sector and plans for improving the sewerage system in the city were also unveiled by Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali.

The call by the parliamentary opposition parties for government to table all outstanding local government reform legislation prior to the holding of the polls is under consideration, according to Prime Minister Samuel Hinds.

-to house 24-hour call centres Opening its new HQ, Digicel yesterday welcomed the advent of cross-network services with its competitor GT&T but it still wants liberalization of the telecommunications market in Guyana, according to CEO Gregory Dean.

Contender for the leadership of the PNCR, Dr Richard Van West-Charles says the link between drug smuggler Roger Khan and the present administration is “emerging with great clarity.”

-global output to be slashed by 5.6M tonnes The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) which is part of RUSAL   last week announced the results of its cost-cutting programme  which  includes a package of measures to reduce the cash cost and strengthen the Russian parent company’s position.