Guyana News

A transportation policy and the vision for a regional airline are expected to be the major focus of an urgent special meeting of the Caricom Council on Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Air and Mari-time Transportation.

Earlier this week Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said it would not let the new United Nations team headed by 1997 Nobel Peace co-laureate, Jody Williams into the country unless it dropped one member.

The Government Analyst/ Food & Drug Department yesterday said that certain batches of two brands of foreign peanut butter: Peter Pan and Great Value may contain salmonella which has sickened hundreds in the US and consumers should check their jars.

The PPP has not discussed formally the issue of the withdrawal of government advertisements from the Stabroek News neither has it taken a position on the matter, the party’s General Secretary Donald Ramotar has said.

Thousands of Guyanese experienced high energy entertainment on Valentine’s night at the live Digicel “Experience” concert featuring Grammy-nominated R&B and Hip Hop singer Akon in the National Park, despite bothersome sound system problems.

Police are investigating an armed robbery committed by three gunmen on a Robb Street, Bourda businessman on Wednesday.

Q: How can I work in the United States? Anyone going to the United States with the intention of working there temporarily must obtain a nonimmigrant work visa.

This month of February, 2007, marks the sixty-eight (68th) anniversary of the Leonora Protest or Strike and Riot of 1939.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on Monday sentenced a man to prison after he said he bought ganja to help ease his asthma “struggle” while his reputed wife was remanded after she denied the charge.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday remanded to prison a man accused of stealing mangoes and other items over a period of time and displaying threatening behaviour toward their owners, when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges.

A 44-year-old man who allegedly escaped from police custody after being arrested over an attempted rape allegation appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison a man accused of stealing items worth more than $200,000 after he pleaded not guilty when he appeared to answer to the charges.

A Kitty resident was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he admitted breaking into a man’s home and carting off over $100,000 in articles.

A 21-year-old man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday after being accused of conspiring with others to supply and export cocaine.

Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited (GTICL) yesterday said Chief Justice Carl Singh last Wednesday approved a reorganisation plan it submitted last November.

New York Judge, Dora Irizarry on Tuesday ruled against the request for Roger Khan to be granted permission to use a laptop computer while in jail and she also denied a request for the court to hold a status conference on why Khan was moved from the Nassau County jail to a Federal prison and housed in a cell designed for terrorists.

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The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has received a football kit from Kit AID of Three Valleys Water in the United Kingdom.

Tony Affonso and Ravindra Karim were awarded for outstanding performances by the Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice.

Darren Haynes and Latoya Hope were the winners of the male and female categories respectively when the National Sport Commission (NSC) held its Mashramani novices table tennis tournament on Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.