Guyana News

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday launched a monthly clinic for visually-impaired people at the Guyana Society for the Blind, in Werk-en-Rust.

(Barbados nation) The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) guards its stellar reputation jealously, but the institution says it will not abandon borrowing member countries in these perilous economic times just to protect that image.

(Barbados Nation) Cricket and politics have another knight. For his sterling contribution to sport and the community, Wesley Winfield Hall has been given a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

(Trinidad Express) History in the making was how national carrier Caribbean Airlines’ re-entry into London was described on Thursday by chairman Rabindra Moonan, Minister of Transport Devant Maharaj, and passengers on the inaugural flight.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Leaders in the Jamaican Diaspora in the United States estimate that as many as 100,000 Jamaicans could benefit from the new immigration policy announced today by US President Barack Obama.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York police said today they are investigating a gunshot heard inside a New York nightclub during a melee of flying bottles involving friends of singer Chris Brown and rapper Drake.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Rajat Gupta, a consummate business insider who once sat on the board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, was convicted today of leaking secrets about the investment bank at the height of the financial crisis, a major victory for prosecutors seeking to root out illicit trading on Wall Street.

(WICB) Southampton, England – Darren Sammy said he was surprised to learn that West Indies were favourites for their series of three One-day Internationals against England, which opens today at the Ageas Bowl here.

(Jamaica Observer) Senior detectives are currently probing the murder of a Negril hotelier whose mutilated body was discovered at his Hanover home last evening.

The Guyana Police Force was yesterday presented with a plaque by the Iwokrama International Centre as a special appreciation award in recognition of its reliable and efficient support to the Iwokrama River Lodge, Kurupukari.

(Jamaica Gleaner) By the end of the year, persons leaving Jamaica will no longer be required to go through immigration lines.

The Barbados government says it is examining the possibility of setting up a Drug Treatment Court (DTC) to help non-violent offenders who have been charged with simple drug possession, the Caribbean Media Corporation reported today.

Two of the four Venezuelan men injured after their boat exploded at a fuel depot at Morawhanna, Northwest on Sunday, succumbed this morning at the Georgetown Hospital.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of pensioner and licensed firearm holder Joseph Rodrigues, 83 years, of Chateau Margot, ECD, which occurred at about 1155h today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Obama administration will relax enforcement of deportation rules for young people brought to the United States without legal status, a softening of immigration policy that is likely to appeal to Hispanic voters in an election year.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Human rights organization ‘Allied Collective’ is dragging the State of Suriname before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights (ICHR) for what it calls the “probable summary execution” by the police of three notorious criminals and a fourth person at the Maretraite project in Tout Lui Faut Tuesday evening.

(Jamaica Observer) Three more men were killed by police in Four Paths, Clarendon yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A senior manager with Ernst & Young has quoted a price tag of US$30 million per financial institution to implement the requirements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FATCA, a new US law meant to snag Americans in the tax net wherever they reside.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Further rate cuts could follow yesterday’s announcement by LIME to slash its rates by up to two-thirds.

New members of the Integrity Commission could be sworn-in within a week, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds announced last night as the National Assembly approved a government motion to ensure that Members of Parliament submit annual declarations in keeping with the provisions of the Integrity Act.