Guyana News

Fugitive Colin Jones was yesterday charged with murdering two of his former gang members and another man and was jailed for eight years on a series of other charges including cultivation of ganja and possession of an unlicensed weapon and ammunition.

For the second time this year masked bandits attacked guards at the Engineering Construction Incorporated (ECI) and escaped in a boat via the Demerara River with millions in equipment and cash.

A man who was held following the recent discovery of 21 kilogrammes of cocaine at Uitvlugt was yesterday released on station bail.

Tributes continued to flow yesterday for former PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray as the National Assembly unanimously passed a motion to put on record its sympathy on the death of the former Deputy Prime Minister.

A 21-year-old mini-bus conductress and her father, a minibus driver, say they were assaulted by policemen last evening after the bus ‘jammed’ a policeman in plain clothes, causing his beer to fall.

The National Assembly last evening unanimously passed another piece of legislation that would postpone Local Government elections for yet another year.

The Police today said that an alleged market robber was shot in his leg after he attacked a policeman.

The sugar corporation has announced that the required amount of cane to run the US$185 million Skeldon sugar factory at top capacity will not be available until 2012.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin rules Russia by  allowing a venal elite of corrupt officials and crooked spies to  siphon off cash from the world’s biggest energy producer,  according to a picture painted by leaked U.S.

CANCUN, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Google Inc  unveiled  technology yesterday it says will help build trust between  rich and poor countries on projects designed to protect the  world’s tropical forests.

Barama Company Limited (BCL) is working to have its plywood factory functioning in a shorter time than the one-year period it said previously and in keeping with the season also gave its former employees a cash taken as a gift of appreciation.

Yesterday, Terrence Azore was remanded to prison for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking when he appeared before Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop at the Fort Wellington Magistrate‘s Court.

Teenage murderer Steven Julian, age 17, who pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter last week, was sentenced to seven  years

LONDON/STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – The lawyer acting for  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied yesterday that Sweden  had issued a valid European arrest warrant for alleged sex  crimes, despite Stockholm’s insistence that legal difficulties  with the warrant were resolved.

The post office at Meten-meer-Zorg, West Demerara has been repaired. A release from the post office said the entire roof was changed, the fence fixed and the interior repainted.

HAIFA, Israel, (Reuters) – A huge fire swept through a  forest in northern Israel yesterday, killing up to 40 people,  many of them prison guards who were trapped in a bus trying to  flee the flames, security services said.

Police at Kwakwani are on the hunt for a resident who attempted to rape a ten-year-old girl.

Even as a campaign is ongoing in the North West District to curb the spread of tuberculosis (TB), sources at the Mabaruma Hospital have confirmed that a 19-year-old female from the community of Tobago Hill in the area succumbed to the disease over the weekend.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Around 2,000 protesters  marched in Haiti’s capital yesterday demanding a rerun of  Sunday’s elections they said were skewed by fraud, as the  jittery Caribbean nation awaited results expected next week.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of  Representatives censured veteran Democrat Charles Rangel for  ethics violations yesterday, forcing the former chief tax  writer to face a humiliating public rebuke before his  colleagues.