Guyana News

In the continuing court saga surrounding Clico’s (Guyana) immovable assets Appeal Court judge, Justice B.S

– ministry eying speedier distribution The Ministry of Housing has begun the move to a more organized and project-oriented system which will result in shortened transaction time for house lot applicants, and under this new dispensation no applicant, as long as he/she does not already own property, will be refused.

-govt refuses request to have bill sent to Special Select Committee A bill legalising the appointment of lay magistrates and the establishment of Lay Magistrates’ Courts locally was on Thursday evening passed in the National Assembly, ten years after it was first introduced in the House.

– urges ministry to hand over sports commission’s funds The 2007 Auditor General’s report has outlined some concerns in relation to financial transactions associated with the National Sports Commission and the National Trust, which fall under the oversight of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

Approximately $406,727 is spent annually to maintain one prison inmate, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee told the National Assembly on Thursday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs last Friday donated a Nissan Frontier 4×4 vehicle and a JH125L Jailing motorcycle to ‘A’ division Community Policing Group (CPG).

Roy McCoy, who was injured in the motorcycle crash that killed two persons on the Essequibo Coast on Saturday is to undergo an operation tomorrow.

An East Coast Demerara businessman died after he was reportedly electrocuted while operating a plucking machine at his home yesterday.

Three teachers from the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) and a University of Guyana lecturer on Wednesday received certificates following their successful completion of the Online Teachers Training Programme.

Police raided a Corentyne home on Friday and arrested two men following the discovery of an unlicensed firearm.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Alan Garcia  named a member of his pro-business ruling party as prime  minister yesterday after bowing to opposition pressure to  shake up his Cabinet in the worst crisis of his term.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) said its ranks on mobile patrol are briefed on proper code of conduct when stopping motorists, in response to an item published in the Friday edition of the Kaieteur News.

URUMQI, China (Reuters) – China raised the death  toll from ethnic rioting in Xinjiang, giving for the first time  the ethnicity of the dead, and a big security presence in the  city at the centre of the strife prevented protests yesterday.

ACCRA (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama told  Africans yesterday that Western aid must be matched by good  governance and urged them to take greater responsibility for  stamping out war, corruption and disease plaguing the continent.

President Bharrat Jagdeo met with a high-level British team on Thursday to discuss matters related to the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) following the UK’s consistent support of the strategy.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Politically isolated Honduras braced yesterday for months of austerity under the  weight of economic sanctions imposed after a June coup and  ousted President Manuel Zelaya vowed actions to support his  reinstatement.

WASHINGTON Reuters – The CIA withheld information  about a secret counter-terrorism program from Congress for  eight years on orders from former US Vice President Dick  Cheney, the New York Times said Friday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has completed its  investigations into five suspects accused of involvement in last  year’s attack on Mumbai, and they are expected to be put on  trial next week, the interior minister said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) A Bridgetown magistrate has thrown his support behind immigration officers who attend court, saying lurid stories about treatment by officers of Guyanese do not apply to them.

Alliance For Change leader Raphael Trotman yesterday issued a public challenge to President Bharrat Jagdeo to debate him on the involvement of drug lords in political parties, but the Office of the President says that the President “does not debate political aspirants such as those residing in the AFC”.