Guyana News

(Trinidad Guardian) Chris Gayle’s ability to draw a crowd has been demonstrated once again with Hampshire bringing in an extra 2000 seats for the one-day international on June 16 at West End.

(Trinidad Express) Government’s intervention in the collapsed CL Financial conglomerate (CLF) will not end anytime soon.

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND,  (Reuters) – West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul could play in the rain-affected third and final test against England at Edgbaston after scan results showed a side injury was not serious.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine was honored with the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award on T hursday night for roles in movies including “Terms of Endearment,” “Steel Magnolias” and “Postcards from the Edge.”

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – I’ll Have Another was retired from racing after suffering a freak injury on the eve of Saturday’s $1 million Belmont Stakes, ending his bid to win the elusive Triple Crown of American thoroughbred racing.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – No man has won seven French Open titles and no man in 43 years has won four grand slams in a row – and only one of these dreams will be realised at the French Open after Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic on Friday set up a lip-smacking final showdown.

(Reuters) – The Miss Universe Organization today launched a legal action for defamation against a beauty queen who said recent Miss USA pageant results were rigged.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Jamaican world champion sprinter Yohan Blake would not mind if history repeated itself on Saturday at the New York grand prix meeting, a key Diamond League series test in the run-up to the London Olympics.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Actress Lindsay Lohan escaped injury in a major car crash today after her Porsche collided with an dump truck on a Southern California highway.

(Reuters) – Reclusive Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill responded today to charges of failing to file federal income tax returns, saying she had chosen to “defer” payments during a period of withdrawal from society to protect her family’s safety.

(Trinidad Express) Hours after Government announced its new anti-crime campaign on Wednesday, four thieves smashed their way into the Port of Spain branch of the Bank of Baroda, and demanded the keys opening the vault to millions of dollars.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller is not the only high-profile public figure whose National Housing Trust (NHT) account was affected in an embarrassing case of fraud at the housing agency for which five persons, including a senior employee, have been charged.

(Jamaica Observer) In imposing the maximum sentence on Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, Judge Robert Patterson said the testimonies of two prosecution witnesses was credible enough and had been corroborated.

The case of Christopher Husbands, a Guyanese who has been charged with the killing of a man and the wounding of six others at Toronto’s Eaton Centre has sparked controversy in Canada over the systems for background checks and the monitoring of house arrest.

Low cost carrier REDjet which attracted many passengers in Guyana and other parts of the Caribbean today formally signalled its closure and has applied for bankruptcy protection.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister  Portia Simpson Miller says her administration has no intention of severing ties with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Confessed Jamaican gangster Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Vishnauth Narine called “Buddy”, 26 years of Plastic City, Vreed-en-Hoop, WCD, which occurred at about 0750h today at Plastic City.

Five St Kitts men charged in connection with robbing cruise ship passengers on the road to Brimstone Hill in November 2010 pleaded guilty when they re-appeared in Court on Wednesday in a case that shocked the Caribbean island and roiled its tourist industry.

Police say that at about 1000h today, the body of Colin Sealey of Zes Kinderen, Mahaicony, ECD, was found along the foreshore at Mahaicony by a search party comprising police ranks, relatives and public spirited persons.