Guyana News

(Reuters) – Timothy Bradley’s controversial victory over Manny Pacquiao for the World Boxing Organization’s (WBO) welterweight title will be reviewed, the governing body said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has brought formal doping charges against U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The French government has put on hold plans by Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in four sites off the coast of French Guiana while it carries out a review of how permits are awarded with an eye on the environment, the energy minister said.

(Barbados Nation) The Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) once unsullied “AAA” rating has been hit by another downgrade.

LONDON, England,  CMC – Stylish left-hander Darren Bravo returned to form with a polished, unbeaten century while Dwayne Smith dazzled but fell just short of three figures, as West Indies warmed up for their one-day series against England by crushing Middlesex today.

Gopaul Tawari called ‘Onkar’, 42, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to Obtaining Money by False Pretence committed on Bibi Shamin Zadeef which occurred on 2011-07-15.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0330h yesterday at Republic Road, New Amsterdam, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Suresh Jagmohan, 18 years, of Belvedere, Corentyne.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet might still have been flying if the Barbados Government had honoured financial commitments to the collapsed airline.

(Trinidad Express) On one hand members of the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) were unable to retrieve their funds and on the other, the board of directors was approving “very big expenditures”.

(Trinidad Express) As State-owned Caribbean Airlines plans to launch its London service tomorrow, it is getting some security help from the United Kingdom Border Agency.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Pegasus Hotels of Jamaica completed its transition to private ownership yesterday with the delisting of the company’s shares, all of which are now owned by Kevin Hendrickson’s Quivin International Limited.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A surcharge amounting to J$1.6 million could be slapped on Town Clerk Errol Greene for failing to seek approval from the Ministry of Finance to spend those funds to rent a motor vehicle for then Mayor of Kingston, Desmond McKenzie, in 2010.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) Following an order by district judge Robert Patterson in New York last week that gangster Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke pay over US$1.5 million to the US Asset Forfeiture Unit, local law enforcement say they have intensified their search for the ill-gotten assets of confessed drug lord.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO ─ The armed men who daringly robbed the jeweller in the Ma Retraite Mall took over ten kilograms of gold valued at SRD 1.7 million.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE — It is very likely that Suriname will become a member of the British Commonwealth.

A man was hacked to death by a co-worker last evening as a feud among workers at the Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) fisheries complex, on the East Bank of Demerara, turned deadly.

Another mother is accusing the Georgetown Public Hospital of negligence after her 12 pound infant died during delivery and the hospital refused her request for an autopsy and buried the baby against her wishes.

Preparations are underway to ensure a safe delivery by the 11-year-old girl, who was raped and impregnated allegedly by her father some seven months ago.

Zabarally Armogan, the driver who was employed with the National Communications Network’s (NCN) Berbice Operations has refuted allegations in the Kaieteur News that someone at the state TV station was collecting his salary even though he had stopped working there.

AFC MP Cathy Hughes yesterday said that the ongoing investigation of financial records at the National Communications Network (NCN) has vindicated the opposition decision to cut the $82M subvention proposed for the entity in the national budget, while pointing out that it is possible that past allocations may not be properly accounted for.