Guyana News

A 20-year-old man charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and threatening language was on Thursday jailed for 18 months when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The process for the renewal of membership to the PNCR has been beset by inefficiencies and delay, according to prospective leadership candidate Dr Richard Van West-Charles, who says they threaten to undermine transparency.

A 36-year-old taxi-driver was shot in his hand as he tried to fight off a bandit at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo on Saturday night.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) says more needs to be done to boost the country’s presence in the regional media and among tour operators and travel agencies.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – A Darfur rebel leader accused  of killing African Union peacekeepers in 2007 is expected to  appear before the International Criminal Court today and is  already in The Hague, the ICC said yesterday.

Security in the Bartica area received a boost following the presentation on Saturday by the authorities of vehicles and boats to policing groups.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s first sexually explicit  theme park was torn down before it even started, after an  outcry from officials, a Chinese newspaper reported yesterday.

A 58-year-old construction worker is nursing chop wounds to his right hand and other parts of his body after he was attacked yesterday morning in Kingston.

-Guyana Court of Appeal had turned down application The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) recently granted special leave to LOP Investments to appeal a case which pertains to the validity of debentures relative to Roman Dutch law provisions after a request before the Guyana Court of Appeal (GCA) for leave to appeal to the CCJ had been turned down.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The box office gods frowned  on the new Tom Hanks religious thriller “Angels & Demons,”  which was the top film worldwide at the weekend, but fell far  short of its much-hyped predecessor “The Da Vinci Code.”

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s relentless military  offensive drove the Tamil Tiger separatists yesterday to admit  defeat in a quarter-century conflict seen as one of the world’s  most intractable wars.

Internationally renowned Guyanese musician Dave Martins committed to further promoting Guyana on the international scene, when he paid a courtesy call on Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad recently.

Protest action on Wednesday by temporary field workers attached to the Guysuco, Albion Estate in Berbice have resulted in them retaining their jobs during the out-of-crop season which started on Monday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s third  main party yesterday called for the House of Commons’ Speaker to  step down and said parliament may need to be dissolved in the  wake of an expenses scandal that has shaken its reputation.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, (Reuters) – President Barack  Obama urged both sides in the abortion debate yesterday to  pursue a “fair-minded” discussion as he sought to quell a  firestorm over his invitation to speak at Notre Dame, a premier  U.S.

Two of Guyana’s abstract works on combating HIV/AIDS have been chosen to be showcased at the 2009 implementers meeting in Namibia.

– Ramotar, Trotman The continuing spate of violent gun crimes, with sometimes deadly results, has led to renewed calls for more to be done to get illegal weapons off the streets.

– Trotman points to need for transparency Plea bargains are subject to the approval of the court and are not deals struck before a guilty plea is accepted, attorney-at-law Raphael Trotman has said, while pointing to the need for equality and transparency as the process is implemented here.

– US$3M five-star upgrade planned A consortium of overseas and local investors led by businessman Robert Badal has bought the Pegasus Hotel for an undisclosed sum of money.

Fear and panic have engulfed a section of the Guyanese population in Barbados as the June 1 deadline for them to turn themselves in to immigration or face deportation looms.