Guyana News

Phyllis Carter, widow of Guyana’s poet laureate, Martin Carter, was the guest of honour at a ceremony inspired by students and held early yesterday morning at her husband’s graveside at the Place of the Seven Ponds in the Botanic Gardens in Georgetown.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Doctors completed an  autopsy on the body of Michael Jackson yesterday but said they  could not immediately establish a cause of death for the “King  of Pop” as speculation centred on his use of prescription  painkillers.

A man was remanded to prison after he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s court on Thursday on a charge of robbery under arms.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Financier Allen Stanford will  remain in a Texas jail at least until Monday as a federal judge  reconsiders his $500,000 bond at the urging of prosecutors who  say the accused swindler is a flight risk, according to a  ruling on Friday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Leftist Honduran President  Manuel Zelaya yesterday pressed ahead with his effort to extend  presidential terms as opposition lawmakers, saying he had  overstepped his authority, moved to oust him from office.

Speaker Ralph Ramkarran on Thursday warned the National Assembly about the impact of continued deferrals on the conclusion of crucial parliamentary business.

The Ministry of Education has come under fire in the 2007 Auditor General ‘s Report for its “deficiencies in the preparation of contract documents” which the report says allows contractors to get away with doing substandard work.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  scored a major victory yesterday when the U.S.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – World leaders face pressure to  find a new policy for dealing with Iran following its disputed  presidential election and crackdown on protesters, but are  unlikely to tighten sanctions any time soon.

– PM inconclusive because of decomposition `Is just mommy I had and now she gone…’ A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Shira Khan, which was found in a trench a short distance from her Unity, Mahaica home, was inconclusive because of the advanced decomposition of the body.

(Antigua Sun) – Shondelle Natasha Beaton Licorish has pleaded guilty to remaining in Antigua and Barbuda after the expiration of a permit granted by the Immigration Department.

A 37-year-old father of one, who admitted stealing a quantity of scrap iron valued over $2.4M from a woman’s storage house, was remanded to prison on Thursday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Zamani Khan, a 20-year-old carpenter of Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara, was on Thursday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly wounding a man and hijacking his car.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is likely to run for the presidency again in 2014 if an opposition candidate wins next year’s election, he said in an interview published yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Jackson, the child  star turned King of Pop who set the world dancing but whose  musical genius was overshadowed by a bizarre lifestyle and sex  scandals, died yesterday.

Gunmen rode up on scooter, bike Two Castello Housing Scheme residents are now hospitalized following two shooting incidents that occurred in the city last night.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Texas financier Allen Stanford  will spend another night in a Texas jail after he pleaded not  guilty yesterday to 21 criminal charges that he ran a $7  billion Ponzi scheme.

The badly decomposed body of a 10-year-old boy suspected to have been murdered was brought to the city yesterday.

Some concession holders operating along the UNAMCO trail, who saw a strange Hummer in the area, believe their fellow miner Thakoor Persaud who was ambushed and gunned down on Tuesday along the trail was targeted.

Anti-drug officials yesterday found over two kilos of cocaine in a package that was destined for Canada at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.