Guyana News

DETROIT, (Reuters) – A new General Motors emerged  from bankruptcy protection yesterday — far more quickly than  most industry watchers had expected — as a leaner automaker  pledging to win back American consumers and pay back  taxpayers.

–as GHARP 2 launched Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says he will not allow international partners who join the national effort aimed at preventing HIV infections, to create parallel programmes that cannot be sustained when they pull out of the country because “he has seen it happen before and it is unacceptable”.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (Reuters) – The rivals for  power in Honduras agreed yesterday to hold more talks to seek a  solution to the crisis created by last month’s coup, keeping  alive hopes that dialogue would prevail over confrontation.

Bridge-building firm, Mabey & Johnson, accused  of breaching United Nations sanctions has became the first  company to be prosecuted by Britain for overseas corruption, the  Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said.

The US military and local professionals are hosting several medical and dental outreach clinics as part of New Horizons Guyana exercises.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s father  said yesterday he suspected “foul play” in the death of his pop  star son, as lawyers disclosed talks aimed at settling  guardianship of the singer’s two children with his ex-wife.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Drug lord Pablo Escobar’s hippo  died the same way he did, hunted down and shot by the  authorities for posing a danger to the public.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) is combining hydrology, hydraulics and computer technology in its latest training session to generate data about flooding and mitigating its effects.

L’AQUILA, Italy, (Reuters) – G8 leaders pledged $20  billion in aid yesterday to help poor nations feed themselves,   surpassing expectations of a summit that made little ground on  climate change and may spell the end of the G8 itself.  

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip  Erdogan said yesterday genocide was being committed in China’s  northwest province of Xinjiang and called on Chinese authorities  to intervene to prevent more deaths.

A report published in Wednesday’s edition of the Stabroek News said that Toshao of Moruka, Joseph De Souza had informed that a 10-month-old boy, Troydon Thornhill of Kamwatta village, located in the Moruka sub-region and pensioner Albert De La Cruz of Santa Rosa, Moruka, had died on Monday evening.

L’AQUILA, Italy, (Reuters) – Britain said yesterday  it had lost eight soldiers in Afghanistan in the space of 24  hours, and Prime Minister Gordon Brown said troops faced a “very  hard summer”, suggesting it should brace itself for more losses.

–rape definition expanded, gender-neutral The long promised Sexual Offences Bill which proposes a comprehensive overhaul of the current archaic law was tabled in the National Assembly yesterday following sustained calls for urgent reform of the legislation.

–cut woman’s neck with knife Guyanese Munilall Sarjoo was last month slapped with a sentence of 30 months and a ten-year weapons ban when he appeared in the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Canada after being found guilty of aggravated assault and weapons possession.

Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officials yesterday discovered approximately two kilos of cocaine in a package addressed to a Brooklyn, New York address.

By Ayanna Blair Walter Aaron, a 37-year-old local singer, was yesterday further remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accused of arranging for two Canadian women to travel to Canada after they had allegedly swallowed a quantity of cocaine pellets.

After a contentious debate, the National Assembly last evening unanimously supported the AFC’s motion which urged the government to make all possible diplomatic and legal efforts to protect the rights of Guyanese nationals in Barbados and other Caricom states, ensuring there is no discrimination on the basis of nationality.

-raise questions about low carbon strategy The influx of illegal Brazilian miners in parts of the Hinterland and the manner in which they conduct their operations is of major concern to some stakeholders in the local mining industry.

Commander of ‘B’ Division, George Vyphuis and other senior ranks entertained members of the Berbice media at a social gathering yesterday as part of the activities to observe the 170th anniversary of the Guyana Police Force.

-counsel alleges ‘malicious prosecution’ A man accused of using a gun to rob another man of two gold chains and a gold ring was ordered yesterday to be kept in police custody when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.