Guyana News

The International Monetary Fund has observed that direct spillovers from the global financial crisis on Guyana’s banking system have so far been limited.

– man still in custody A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of a West Coast Berbice waitress proved that she died from poisoning and the man who allegedly forced her to ingest it is still in custody at the Fort Wellington Police Station.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday met representatives of the Common Fund for Commodities who had expressed an interest in Guyana becoming a member.

A Trinidadian businessman and two Guyanese were in custody last evening as police in Trinidad and Tobago continue their investigation into the murders of two Guyanese men whose bodies were found in a river on Sunday with gunshot wounds to the back of their heads.

-reaping of financial rewards to be criminalized Two bills, which seek to modernize the laws governing the legal status of children and adoptions, were yesterday unanimously passed by the National Assembly, in a move deemed as progressive in the effort to protect the basic human rights of Guyanese children.

-Stats Bureau The Bureau of Statistics says that during the first quarter this year the inflation rate was held at 0.4% by such factors as the contraction in demand, the supply rebound in vegetables and fruits and  relatively low fuel prices.

-in false murder probe Police reportedly investigating a murder that had not occurred “broke” into a Tain, Corentyne home, one of its occupants said, and took a pregnant woman into custody when they did not find the “suspect” they were seeking.

-court hears A father of four was yesterday refused bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of carjacking at a stoplight.

The main opposition PNCR has questioned the legitimacy of the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting (ACB), accusing the government of turning a temporary arrangement into a political tool.

The National Assembly yesterday unanimously approved 15 nominees for appointment to the constitutional Women and Gender Equality Commission.

-will be available online Guyenterprise says the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company (GT&T) has contracted it to be its sales agent for the 2009/2010 Guyana Telephone Directory.

A 24-year-old woman was yesterday refused bail when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to two counts of larceny from a dwelling house.

Suriname has now become part of a wider network for intelligence sharing and dissemination of information in relation to illegal firearms within the Caribbean.

Three days after the generating set at Lethem broke down, power was finally restored to major businesses in the border community yesterday.

–girl, 10, found cooking on kero stove A ten-year-old cooking roti on a kerosene stove near a bed and an eight-month-old baby who had not had a diaper change in hours was the scene welfare officers from the Child Care and Protection Agency happened on in a shack at Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara.

CARICOM trade ministers at the 27th Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development last week  expressed concern at the latest proposals by the European Union (EU) for new tariff measures to deal with the longstanding banana dispute.

Two riverain communities received outboard engines from Food For the Poor (Guyana) Inc at the organisation’s headquarters in Festival City, Georgetown on Wednesday.

The PNCR yesterday said any kind of brute force used by the police is unacceptable as it leads to the “indiscriminate slaughter of young men and prevents a determination of the masterminds behind crime in Guyana.”

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – A scheme that could unlock  billions of dollars for poorer nations by saving their forests  is set to be included in a new climate pact, a top U.N. 

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A billionaire Egyptian businessman  and politician was sentenced to death yesterday for ordering  the murder of a Lebanese pop star reported to have been his  lover in a gory case that captivated the Arab world.