Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) A Jamaican taxi-driver remains in police custody as investigators probe the disappearance and possible death of Michelle Coudray, daughter of San Fernando Mayor Marlene Coudray.

(Trinidad Express) Too feeble to fight back, 87-year-old Jane Toophanie was hog-tied, gagged and terrorised by two men who broke into the family’s home and killed her son yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A hitman was hired by former president of the Hindu Credit Union (HCU), Harry Harnarine, to assassinate Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS), Sat Maharaj.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — Mayor of the city of San Fernando in Trinidad, Marlene Coudray, earlier today provided blood which will be tested to assist the police in their investigation into the disappearance of her daughter, Michelle Coudray.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The People’s National Party (PNP) has released a statement saying it was the organisation which received US$1,000,000 from the alternative investment scheme Olint in the run up to the 2007 general election and not P.J.

(Barbados Nation) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Based on currently available information, LIAT estimates that insured losses from the June 10, 2012 fire at its hangar at the V.C.

From the start of next month, Lindeners will begin paying higher electricity rates, in keeping with the plan by government to gradually scale-back its subsidising of the cost in the mining town.

Police say that at about 0830h today, porter Allan Mendonca, 30 years of Lower Kara Kara, Linden, was travelling in a trailer transporting logs along the Ituni trail when the vehicle toppled as a result of a puncture. 

(Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the former Texas billionaire convicted of an $7 billion Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 110 years in prison by a U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fifty-five workers from Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), accused of engaging in acts of violence and intimidation during the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) 90-day strike, have been suspended until further notice.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela is building unmanned drone aircraft as part of military cooperation with Iran and other allies, President Hugo Chavez said, in a move likely to heighten U.S.

PARAMARIBO – Monday’s robbery of a jeweler, which was supposed to be last one before they ‘retired’, became fatal to Just Goddard, Urby Burleson, Resa Amsinck and a certain Harrison.

(WICB) Gros Islet, St Lucia — The West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Selection Panel has called up Kieran Powell and Assad Fudadin to the West Indies A Team 13-man squad for the third Digicel “Test” against India A at Beausejour Cricket Ground in St Lucia.

(Barbados Nation) The Fair Trading Commission (FTC) dealt Digicel a double blow yesterday by not only slapping down the company over accusations it made in an appeal but also throwing it out calling the grounds “baseless”.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies Players Association (WIPA) president Wavell Hinds has expressed his “disappointment” over Denesh Ramdin’s gesture towards former West Indies batsman Sir Viv Richards during the third Test against England on Sunday at Edgbaston.

(Trinidad Express) Pupils from six schools within the Morvant district yesterday braved rain and an overcast sky to show their disgust against the increasing crime situation in the country as they took part in a peace march organised through the British High Commission.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi urged foreign governments not to allow their companies to do joint ventures with the state-owned oil and gas company until it improved transparency and accountability.

(ABC News) A former Army Special Forces surgeon who allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend to death at a Buffalo, N.Y.

(Trinidad Express) He entered the world of work as a handyman making minimum wage.

APNU MP Carl Greenidge last night withdrew a motion to have the Audit Office taken off the list of budget agencies, revealing that Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh had recently signed an order to make the change.