Guyana News

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson sentenced a man who admitted robbing a Canadian national of his bag to a two-year jail term while another man charged with robbing another Canadian national was remanded to prison.

Some residents of the Amerindian community of Orealla/Siparuta are alleging that recent elections for Chairman and Councillors for the village were irregular and illegal and are calling for an investigation and fresh elections.

A bus driver and a bus conductor were yesterday granted $25,000 bail each when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of trying to bribe a police sergeant to avoid being charged with overloading their bus.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a 62-year-old Princes Street, Lodge resident who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend who died subsequently as a result.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama yesterday pressed a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict but failed to win a public commitment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Palestinian statehood.

LONDON (Reuters) – The most senior official in Britain’s lower house of parliament apologised to the nation yesterday for an expenses scandal among lawmakers that has prompted growing calls for an early general election.

Assistant Secretary-General of the Organization of Ameri-can States (OAS) Albert Ramdin said  “Caricom needs to revisit its strategic objectives when it comes to the integration process,” especially in the context of what is happening globally.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Humanity may be witnessing an influenza pandemic unfold, the head of the World Health Organization said yesterday, as Japan reported a big jump in infections with the newly-discovered H1N1 virus.

A 39-year-old gardener who was allegedly found with a quantity of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

EL FASHER, Sudan (Reuters) – Sudan’s top official in North Darfur accused Chad yesterday of sending troops into his territory to fight alongside Darfur rebels, raising the stakes in the simmering tension between the two countries.

LONDON (Reuters) – Tamils and their supporters demonstrating outside Britain’s parliament yesterday refused to believe that Sri Lanka’s long civil war was over or that separatist Tamil Tiger rebels were defeated.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The number of people displaced by conflict and natural disaster in Central and East Africa is now more than 11 million, the United Nations said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to name former US President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to Haiti, UN officials said yesterday, in a move that could attract investment in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation and help stabilize the country.

-cash, jewellery taken A labourer of Chesney Back, Corentyne was shot dead around 7 pm on Saturday by a gunman, part of a gang that robbed two business places and injured one of the owners who is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Thirty-nine -year-old Redwin Europe was stabbed to death on Saturday evening by a man with whom he had an argument over $500 at the Wales Community Centre.

Welder killed in Annandale bus smash-up 62-year-old man died after the bus that he was in collided with a truck on the Annandale Public Road, East Coast Demerara last night.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is working to ensure a smooth transition of the former Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) into  the Caribbean Community Secretariat as a Specialised Department in keeping with a decision at the 20th Inter-sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in Belize in March 2009.

-some opting to return home Reports are being received of Guyanese being “stereotyped” on the “basis of their appearance”, Guyana’s Honorary Consul in Barbados, Norman Faria says.

A broken transom on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) was replaced yesterday as maintenance work on the structure continues.

-complainant says she fears for her life A 30-year-old carpenter was on Thursday remanded to prison for allegedly using threatening language to the mother of his child when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.