Guyana News

The Planning Committee for the International Society of Family Law Caribbean Regional Conference is advising participants that early registration for the conference hosted by the Council of Legal Education Eugene Dupuch Law School in the Bahamas will close at month end.

A man yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded not guilty to a drug trafficking charge.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Rights groups demanded yesterday that Haiti arrest former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity after his surprise return from 25 years in exile, which strained an edgy political atmosphere in the volatile Caribbean state.

NOVA FRIBURGO, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian army helicopters stepped up rescue and supply operations yesterday in areas hit by floods and landslides that have killed at least 665 people, reaching residents who had been cut off from help for five days.

A woman was yesterday ordered to pay $10,000 costs after she declined to proceed with a case of unlawful and malicious assault allegedly meted out to her by a man.

There was an 18% reduction in serious crimes last year as compared to 2009 even though there has been an increase in murders, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee reported, with some 2,613 serious crimes being recorded as oppose to the 3,176 the previous year.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak broke away from his centre-left Labour Party yesterday in a move Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said made his government stronger and more stable.

Miami (Reuters) – Police found empty containers for explosives detonators on Monday in the belly of an American Airlines passenger plane at Miami’s international airport, triggering a security alert.

President Bharrat Jagdeo gave assurances to boat operators plying the Stabroek to Vreed-en-Hoop route that there are no plans to sell the two stellings.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has lent more money to developing nations than the World Bank in the past two years, the Financial Times said today, underlining Beijing’s ambitions to increase its global influence.

Lucky Dollar Guyana hosted its final presentation ceremony for the fourth and fifth batches of winners in the Santa’s sleigh promotion last week at its Regent Street store.

Government has allocated $1.5 billion for the water sector this year to improve the supply and expand access countrywide to potable water.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said government has allocated $3.6 billion to continue its housing drive this year, particularly with the development of housing schemes.

– $1.8B for laptops project The continuation of infrastructure works for the fibre optic cable from Brazil has been allocated $2.5 billion in this year’s budget for while $1.8 billion have been allocated for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative.

Finance Minister Ashni Singh today disclosed that since the appointment of a liquidator, 4,567 Clico (Guyana) policyholders have uplifted cheques totalling $3.1B.

For many years, the single largest source of foreign exchange earnings, sugar was relegated to number four last year.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh has called on the University of Guyana (UG) to modernise the delivery of its programmes by introducing online degrees.

A former US Peace Corps volunteer in Guyana is one of six women who have told US television station ABC about being raped while overseas on assignment and feeling unsupported by the organization.

Joan Baveghems is the new PNCR-1G Member of Parliament. She takes up the seat left vacant on the passing of MP Winston Murray.

Finance Minister Ashni Singh this afternoon announced that the income tax threshold had been lifted from $35,000 per month to $40,000 per month and he also unveiled a drop in the corporation tax.