Guyana News

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand on Thursday distributed over 700 school vouchers valued $1,500 each to Region Three students after a similar exercise had been conducted previously in Linden.

– after VC declined to pursue the matter Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ordered a 44-year-old food vendor to keep the peace after he pleaded guilty to simple larceny when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

Proceedings filed against Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson with regard to evidence she ruled inadmissible in the Oliver Hinckson advocating a terrorist act preliminary inquiry (PI), were dismissed yesterday afternoon.

Liloutie Persaud, the woman who was struck down by a 16-year-old unlicensed driver is still a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras came under pressure yesterday to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya as many Latin American leaders agreed to withdraw envoys, Washington called his overthrow illegal and street protests turned violent.

Orin Duncan, the 44-year-old man who was stabbed at Meadow Bank on Sunday evening is still a patient at the male open ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bernard Madoff was sentenced yesterday to 150 years in prison — the maximum penalty the judge could give him for “extraordinarily evil” crimes in Wall Street’s biggest and most brazen investment fraud.

An Israeli investment company has been clearing 200 acres of land for the cultivation of pawpaws and pineapples at Dora, Soesdyke.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran confirmed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president and said a row over his June 12 re-election was over, leaving opponents who cried foul with few options.

A 50-year-old pork-knocker on Friday opted to serve a three-week jail term after pleading guilty to the charge of fraudulent conversion when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s parents yesterday sought control over his children and an estate that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez ruled out a Cabinet reshuffle and defended her handling of the economy yesterday after losing control of Congress in a mid-term election.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – US troops pulled out of Baghdad yesterday, triggering jubilation among Iraqis hopeful that foreign military occupation is ending six years after the invasion to depose Saddam Hussein.

Digicel has launched its summer promotion with a number of prizes up for grabs including two BMW Coupes.

-outcome to be challenged Amid chaotic scenes yesterday, Volda Lawrence was elected Chairman of the PNCR’s Georgetown District trouncing incumbent Aubrey Norton by 220 votes to 96 but last night persons close to the Norton camp were charging that the process had been hijacked and would be challenged within the party.

-says CCJ must give decisions under law, not decisions to our likingFormer Commonwealth secretary general, Sir Shridath Ramphal, underscoring the primacy of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), says that the abolition of appeals to the UK Privy Council must be a consequence of the region’s exercise of the right to self-determination in judicial matters.

-acknowledges early-morning raids Amid a furore over the treatment of illegals, Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson says only four Guyanese have been deported since June 1 but he acknowledged that there have been early morning raids against the undocumented.

A 44-year old Meadow Bank resident was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital last evening with two stab wounds in the region of his chest.

A pregnant woman and her eight-month-old baby who were being deported from Canada on Thursday were taken off a flight bound for Guyana after the mother was deemed unfit to travel, according to a report in the Toronto Sun yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that had he found any case of fraud at Clico or “even a slight inkling of fraud” the administration would have been first in conducting a full scale Commission of Inquiry.