Guyana News

Kazim Mohamed, the La Penitence man who stabbed his brother to death on January 16, 2005, will spend the next 12 years in jail.

A 42-year-old labourer was yesterday sentenced to nine months imprisonment after pleading guilty to the charge of simple larceny when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– hooded men seen in yard A Friendship, East Bank Demerara businessman, who was shot during a robbery at his home earlier this month, is worried about his safety and that of his family.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – An Iranian official accused the United States yesterday of involvement in a mosque bombing that killed more than 20 people in volatile southeastern Iran, two weeks before a presidential election.

A $148M contract for the construction of the access road to the Haags Bosch landfill site has been awarded to H Nauth and Sons contracting firm and was signed at the Ministry of Local Government’s Kingston offices yesterday.

– worker admitted to hospital Up to late yesterday afternoon, Amanda Sooklall, the snackette owner who had sustained the brunt of an attack launched by bandits at Magic Mall, La Grange West Demerara on Thursday was still unconscious at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre (DDC), East Bank Demerara.

TORONTO (Reuters) – Former US Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton traded jokes about life after the Oval Office and took turns defending each other as they shared a stage in Toronto yesterday to discuss global affairs.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida judge awarded nearly $1.2 billion yesterday to a Cuban American former CIA operative who hunted revolutionary Che Guevara, in a lawsuit he brought against Cuba over the suicide death of his father.

The Ministry of Health’s National Lymphatic Filariasis programme will soon start in Region Two even as it reported it has found a reduction of worm infestation in areas where mass treatment had been conducted.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – An international crackdown on piracy off Somalia’s coast has yielded around 100 arrests and put bandits operating near the Horn of Africa on the defensive, US and UN officials said yesterday.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) yesterday announced the swearing in of Carol J.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is on course for a drubbing at European elections next week after a scandal over politicians’ expenses damaged him far more than his rivals, an opinion poll showed today.

In its aim to promote honest dialogue on sexuality and gender identity in Guyana, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) has launched ‘Painting the Spectrum 5,’ its fifth festival of films dealing with different aspects of same sex relationships.

Bandits beat and rob store owners, staffTerror reigned at Magic Mall La Grange West Demerara yesterday afternoon, when two armed men, posing as customers, swept through the shopping facility beating those who opposed them and gathering booty; they left one woman unconscious and others injured.

Police are investigating a mid-morning robbery in which an 88-year-old US-based Guyanese was stabbed in the chest.

– proposes mixed PR and first past the post voting The government yesterday tabled a bill to facilitate the holding local government polls later this year, under a hybrid proportional representation (PR) and first past the post electoral system that emphasises accountability to the voters.

President Bharrat Jagdeo will swear in three members of the Integrity Commission today.

Caricom lead Head for Agriculture President Bharrat Jagdeo last evening chided the policymakers for their “patent neglect” of the agricultural sector in the region and called for it to be given similar benefits and attention as other sectors.

– she called me a ‘spoilsport’, mother recalls Seven-year-old Deanna Ramjit of Bush Lot, West Berbice, one of three persons who perished in the boat mishap in the Abary Creek on Wednesday was excited about the trip and had begged her mother to take her.

A Guyanese woman and her boyfriend, whose nationality is yet to be determined, may have to stand trial in the Antigua High Court for allegedly running a scam that saw thousands of dollars taken from the accounts of credit and debit card holders.