Guyana News

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – The late Hong Kong  billionaire Nina Wang wanted to have a child with the feng shui  enthusiast laying claim to her inheritance, his lawyer said yesterday in a bitter legal battle with Wang’s family for her  billions.

Gladstone Williamson, the suspect in the murder of his former wife and the attempted murder of her daughter and niece appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court yesterday to face three charges of murder and attempted murder and was remanded to prison.

-also charged with robbing restaurant A labourer of Number 72 Village, Corriverton will spend the next three years in jail after he admitted to charges of possession of arms and ammunition at the Springlands Court yesterday before Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition  Conservatives said yesterday their politicians would pay back  thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to try to quell a row  over parliamentary expenses that has outraged voters.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)  will be posting up Divisional/Sub-Divisional Lists of Registrants  at prominent  places in all electoral Divisions/Sub-Divisions and at GECOM Offices/Sub-Offices in the respective Registration/Electoral Divisions for public scrutiny, and a Claims and Objections (C&O) exercise will be conducted.

KOTA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Helicopter-borne  Pakistani soldiers swooped into a Taliban stronghold in a  remote corner of Swat yesterday as the United Nations urged  help for hundreds of thousands displaced by the fighting.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The Vatican had to play down  Pope Benedict’s teenage membership of the Hitler Youth yesterday as Israeli disappointment at a lack of emotion in his  remarks on the Holocaust dogged his tour of the Holy Land.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is calling on the citizens to demand better treatment for nurses, on the occasion of International Nurses Day.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan President  Alvaro Colom denied involvement in the murder of a prominent  lawyer yesterday after a video surfaced blaming the president  for the crime and accusing him of money laundering.

-women at forefront of drive to make a living Poverty and the lack of job opportunities for persons at Numbers 28/29 and 30 Villages have led a group of mostly women to venture into the rearing of tilapia which has already been guaranteed a Jamaican market.

-at CARICOM ministers meet Ministers in CARICOM with responsibility for foreign relations recently expressed concern at the growing incidence of armed robbery in the Caribbean Sea and discussed a number of measures for a joint position on the issues, including most importantly the sharing and exchange of information.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A U.S. jury found five men guilty  yesterday of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up Chicago’s Sears  Tower and government buildings after two previous attempts to  convict the group ended in mistrials.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Four suicide bombers blew up near  government buildings in an Afghan town yesterday, and  militants barricaded themselves inside a building with hostages  for hours until Afghan and Western troops overpowered them,  officials said.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Tuesday distributed seeds and other planting materials to De Velde and Baracara farmers during an outreach exercise aimed at boosting cultivation in remote areas.

FORTALEZA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – At a time when big  financial firms are reviled by many for leading the world into  crisis, a ramshackle bank on a potholed street has lessons in  economic independence that are catching on around the world.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and Dr Myles Munroe of The Bahamas Faith Ministries International, engaged in lengthy discussions during a courtesy call at State House and an agreement was made for the religious leader to return to speak to the nation about issues concerning men.

In a thinly-veiled critique of conditions under which members of the Guyana Police Force serve and those in which detainees are held, Caricom’s Assistant Secretary-General Dr Edward Greene yesterday called for security to move away from brute force tactics, while President Bharrat Jagdeo insisted that such methods were sometimes justified in the fight against violent crime.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has reportedly adjusted the requirements for the recruitment of Air Traffic Services personnel to work within the Air Navigation Services department at the Timehri Control Tower.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a 22-year-old West Ruimveldt resident charged with the murder of the power company’s security chief.

A Rupununi woman who was allegedly beaten to death last Friday is the latest addition to the growing list of fatal domestic violence cases.