Guyana News

A man, charged with misappropriating $3M entrusted to him to buy seafood, was yesterday granted $200,000 bail.

Mechanic David Montage appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday charged with four counts of fraudulent conversion.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A jubilant President Barack  Obama signed the most sweeping U.S.

Four persons, accused of lifting flour from NAMILCO, were yesterday charged with conspiracy to steal.

Keith Springer was refused bail yesterday when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with indecent assault.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The man widely seen as China’s  next leader told Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday the world’s two most powerful emerging market economies  should help each other increase their weight in global affairs.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka said yesterday it  would deny a visa to the Senegalese-American R&B singer and  rapper Akon, whose plan to hold a concert there in April  infuriated Buddhists offended by one of his videos.  

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Google’s gambit in pulling  the plug on its flagship search engine in China leaves its  remaining operations there exposed to the whimsy of Beijing,  whose initial reaction is far from reassuring.

By Cathy Richards Physical trade from Brazil to and through Linden is likely to start before the end of the year, according to members of a visiting business delegation yesterday, during a familiarisation tour of the mining town.

Guyana stands to gain more from the Venezuela rice and paddy deal following negotiations earlier this month between officials of the two countries.

Opposition parties and some members of the religious community have expressed uneasiness at President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent statement about the law governing the operation of casinos, calling it a complete turnaround from what he had promised the nation three years ago.

The driver of the motorcar which crashed on Saturday leaving a Diamond housewife dead pleaded not guilty yesterday to causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, and he was subsequently granted $125,000 bail.

Several vendors had their goods seized as regional authorities cleared them from the Parika roadside yesterday but by afternoon, they had returned to sell on the road.

A taxi driver was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with breaking and entering an East Bank store.

A man who is said to have a ‘weed-smoking’ habit pleaded guilty to stealing food belonging to his sister when he appeared in Court One yesterday, and he received a three-year jail sentence.

Sherwin Adams of 97 Pineapple Street, East Ruimveldt appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to answer the charge of robbery, to which he pleaded not guilty.

A 45-year-old man was killed on Saturday when he was pinned by the vehicle he was travelling in at Issano after it developed mechanical problems and toppled.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai acknowledged yesterday that some Amerindian communities lack a clear understanding of the LCDS but insisted there were no language barriers.

It was a sad, broken Boyo Ramsaroop who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Saturday morning, days after he was hospitalised as a result of a number of medical complications.

-former senior staff By Sara Bharrat A combination of poor decisions by the National Parks Commission (NPC) and inadequate funds is responsible for the Zoological Park’s current “prison label,” a former senior management staff says.