Guyana News

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez yesterday rebuffed criticism from Catholic bishops by  ordering a review of diplomatic ties with the Vatican and  declaring that the pope is “no ambassador of Christ on earth.”

A 44-year-old carpenter accused of breaking into the Amerindian Hostel and stealing a quantity of items valued $73,300 was on Tuesday placed on bail in the sum of $70,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The new Chairman of the Caricom Development Fund (CDF) Dr Bernard LaCorbiniere says the Fund is now capitalised at US$82 million, in his report at the recent Conference of the Caribbean Community Heads.

GAITHERSBURG, Md, (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s  diabetes drug Avandia should be allowed to stay on the market  but with additional warnings, U.S.

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir and a team of ministry officials on Monday opened a $1M, eight-week training workshop in Kwakwani to benefit 30 women The workshop was the fulfilment of a commitment the minister had made to residents who had requested assistance with tuition for classes in Information Technology and Office Procedures during a previous cabinet outreach exercise.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Spanish actors Javier  Bardem and Penelope Cruz have joined the ranks of Oscar-winning  married couples after tying the knot in the Bahamas earlier this  month, according to several celebrity magazines.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – A movie chronicling  Joaquin Phoenix’s puzzling 2008 decision to retire from acting  and reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician will debut in U.S. 

GAWU, NAACIE and Britain’s General Union (GMB) are collaborating on a year-long project aimed at equipping 180 union representatives with five pieces of labour legislation.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – In 1985, Mel Gibson  was declared People magazine’s first ever “Sexiest Man Alive”. 

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) says vendors, shopkeepers and other users of weighing and measuring devices have continued to submit their gadgets for verification during the second quarter of the year.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani censors have  banned an Indian comedy film featuring a lookalike of al Qaeda  mastermind Osama bin Laden, the film’s distributor said yesterday.

Residents of Chinowieng, an Amerindian community in Region Seven, who were affected by the La Nina weather phenomenon, were given food  and  equipment by the Ministries of Amerindian Affairs and Agriculture earlier this month, according to a GINA report.

Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran yesterday publicly declared his interest in serving as the PPP’s presidential candidate at next year’s general election.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has sold his Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara property to Guyana’s Honorary Consul to Trinidad and Tobago Ernie Ross, his lawyer confirmed yesterday.

The fund into which Norway is to funnel forest protection money is to be set up by the end of this month after which Oslo will deliver its first tranche of US$30M.

-contends publication ‘malicious,  designed to excite racial hostilities’ President Bharrat Jagdeo has filed a $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News and its columnist Freddie Kissoon, saying they portrayed him and the government as racist in a recent article.

Several hours after slamming into the concrete rail of a Land of Canaan bridge, a former Customs Officer succumbed to his injuries.

Three days shy of her 80th birthday, Yevonne Monthouth died yesterday after she was hit by a car while attempting to cross a road.

At the Springlands Court yesterday Magistrate Krishndat Persaud sentenced a policeman to six years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

Washed out sections of  the Mabura Trail linking George-town to Mahdia have resulted in passengers  paying double the fare to get to the Region 8 area.