Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – If political history is any  guide, Gordon Brown is heading for certain defeat in a British  general election next year.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon  Brown suffered the latest in a series of setbacks yesterday  when he caved in to public pressure and said more retired  Nepalese Gurkha soldiers would be allowed to settle in Britain.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A law expected to be approved  by Brazil’s Congress granting 1.2 million people and numerous  companies titles to a huge chunk of the Amazon rain forest  could provoke a new wave of land-grabbing and deforestation,  conservationists warn.

DURANGO, Mexico, (Reuters) – Drug gangs have forced  open a bloody new front in Mexico’s drugs war, extending their  battles over smuggling routes into a formerly quiet  northwestern state and further stretching the army.

A 42-year-old man is in serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was allegedly stabbed by a relative yesterday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., (Reuters) – A jury on Thursday  decided a former U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Police and federal agents  arrested 88 people linked to a notorious Southern California  street gang in raids yesterday that capped the largest such  sweep by the U.S.

Police in a press statement issued yesterday said they are investigating a report of the alleged murder of a Pomeroon man.

Four men, including a businessman, fingered in the kidnapping and murder of Guyanese Narad Sookoo and Tomeshwar Doobay, were expected to be arrested last night in Trinidad.

Guyanese residing in Barbados have been experiencing serious delays in having their work permits processed and to date the Guyana government has not made an official statement on the decision recently announced by that country’s prime minister.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered the police to find a key piece of evidence that has gone missing in the Preliminary Inquiry into the rape charge against promoter Colin Mack.

– Ambassador Guyana will most likely not be able to regain any of the 6 million euros ($1.6 billion) that it lost in budgetary support from the European Commission (EC) after the late submission of a sugar action plan.

A woman and her sister, who forged two Jamaican passports to travel from Guyana to Jamaica and then to the US, were each ordered to pay a $120,000 fine or alternatively serve 12 months in prison when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Acting Crime Chief Louis Crawford and Commander of ‘C’ Division Balram Persaud have both refuted reports in the media that a cellular phone was found on the body of Courtney James.

– man says he deflected bullet to chest A 25-year-old Stabroek Market vendor is under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing a gunshot wound to his left hand after he was shot during a confrontation with police in the Stabroek Market area yesterday.

A 14-year old boy of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday afternoon with a screwdriver lodged in his left foot.

A 34-year-old woman, who told the court that she slashed another woman with a broken glass bottle shortly after she was pushed away from fighting with the woman’s friend, was remanded to prison yesterday when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Mercy Wings Vocational and Day Care Centre, which is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy Guyana, yesterday held the dedication ceremony for its newly constructed multi-purpose building.

A 38-year-old man from Tuschen who allegedly forged and tendered a driver’s licence to a police sergeant was granted bail yesterday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Traffic along the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) slowed to a crawl yesterday afternoon after a 50-seater bus encountered mechanical problems while proceeding to Georgetown.