Perhaps it was failure to see  the road traffic signs or a blatant disregard for them, that landed some 15 drivers before Georgetown  Supreme Court Judge Navindra  Singh.

The drivers were all held in contempt of court, after they were arrested by traffic ranks for honking their horns in the vicinity of the Georgetown High Court and Magistrates’ Courts respectively; areas universally known to be silent zones. Several signs have been erected in the vicinity of the courts to caution vehicular traffic proceeding along the thoroughfares that they are approaching a silent zone and that the sounds of horns are prohibited.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

GUYANA-Mahdia residents who have been complaining for years now about water problems are set to receive some measure of relief soon. According to the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI), its Chief Executive, Dr. Richard Van West-Charles, visited that Region Eight community last week to address the challenges being faced by the Regional Administration with regard to water supply. The GWI boss was accompanied by senior management including Executive Director of state-owned utility’s Infrastructure, Planning and Implementation Department (IPID), Ramchand Jailal. During a visit to the Campbelltown community, the team from GWI observed that the community required a new electrical pump for the facility which supplied the area with water.  According to the Director of IPID, GWI will be collaborating with the Regional Administration within the next 10 days to replace the pump.(KAIETEUR NEWS/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

Maybe the sixth time will be the charm for European leaders trying to forge a unified response to the EU’s migration crisis. Five times before, the presidents and prime ministers of the 28 countries in the European Union have tried to tackle the issue. Yet Europe’s response to the wave of desperate families seeking entry to the EU remains, by most accounts, fragmented and chaotic. The leaders of the EU countries are meeting Wednesday on the issue for the sixth time this time in the tiny island nation of Malta.(CNN/ cnn.com)…[+]

GUYANA- The Auditor General Report for 2014 has zeroed in on a number of irregularities in the operations of the Public Service Ministry, under the previous administration. The ministry came under scrutiny following the May 11th general elections which saw the coalition government under David Granger entering office, ending the two-decade run of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic. The former minister, Dr. Jennifer Westford, and her personal assistant, Margaret Cummings were placed before the courts for allegedly transferring a number of state vehicles to themselves in the lead-up to the elections. The two are also the centre of a police investigation involving the disappearance of more than $600M from the ministry.(KAIETEUR NEWS/kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]

INDIA –  Bangladesh courts on Sunday sentenced six men to death in the torturing and killing of two boys earlier this year in two different cases. The judgments handed down against the convicted men came in the northeast city of Sylhet and southeast city of Khulna. In both cases, the killings had touched off widespread, angry protests with a demand for bringing the perpetrators to justice.(CNN.COM/photo:cnn.com)…[+]

The lifeless body of a 22-year-old woman was pulled from a submerged canter truck in the Demerara River several hours after it plunged off the Demerara Harbour Bridgeon Sunday . The body of 22-year old Gangadai Persaud was recovered after painstaking efforts by divers who had to brave high tides and strong current to get to it after it got stuck between the two front seats. Persaud, a mother of a 10-month-old baby resided at Lot 4210 Tuschen Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara (WCD).  Her husband, whose name has been given as Danram Ramdeo Ramlall, 26, managed to free himself while under the water. Up to late Sunday, he was in police custody assisting with the investigation.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

It’s been seven months since popular businessman Farouk Ghanie Hamid’s body was found with two stab wounds at the back of his Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home, but police have made no progress in tracking down the second suspect. Police have already charged Floyd Anthony Rammit for the businessman’s murder but they are still to apprehend the second suspect. Determined that the case will not go unsolved, the businessman’s relatives have posted a $3M reward for the arrest and conviction of the other individual, who look his life. Police had issued a wanted bulletin for 20-year-old Kemo Tyron Evans of Bagotstown, EBD, and Sophia, Georgetown.(Kaieteurnews.com/foto:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

CHINA /VITNAME –  General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks here Thursday with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong, and they agreed to push forward their countries’ comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. Xi is paying a state visit to Vietnam from Thursday to Friday at the invitation of Trong and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang. During the talks between Xi and Trong, the two sides agreed to adhere to the guidelines of long-term stability, looking into the future, good-neighborly friendship and comprehensive cooperation, as well as the spirit of good neighbors, good friends, good comrades and good partners, and advance their partnership in a sustained, healthy and steady way.(Xinhua)…[+]

SWEDEN – A powerful explosion has rocked central Stockholm. Friday’s blast happened in the Sodermalm area of the Swedish capital. Police are at the scene, and at least one street has been sealed off. ”It is unclear what happened,” police spokesman Albin Naverberg told local newspaper Aftonbladet. Investigations are ongoing.   (worldbulletin)…[+]

GERMAN – Party leaders of Germany’s ruling coalition have agreed on Thursday on plans to establish special registration centers for refugees in Germany, with an aim to speed up asylum procedures for those who have little chance to get asylum. The plan was announced at a joint press conference by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as coalition party heads Sigmar Gabriel and Horst Seehofer after their summit meeting over refugees on Thursday afternoon, ending a coalition internal dispute lasting several weeks. Merkel, Gabriel and Seehofer have already met on Sunday to discuss the current refugee situation, but failed to hammer out a compromise deal after Gabriel.

Head of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), dismissed the idea of setting up so-called transit zones on German borders to filter out migrants who have little chance of gaining asylum, deepening a rift within Merkel’s ruling coalition. Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU), led by Seehofer, hoped to use the transit zones – proposed border holding camps – to process asylum more efficiently, while the SPD criticized the transit zones as “giant prisons.” Instead of transit zones, the three party leaders have agreed on Thursday on the plan to set up three to five special reception centers across Germany.(Xinhua/Zhang Fan)…[+]