Guyana News

A Ministry of Public Works maintenance crew yesterday transported wooden planks to shore up the rapidly eroding Salem, East Bank Essequibo sea dam.

Police have hit a dead end in the investigation of the death of Indira Narine, whose decomposing body was discovered at her Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo home, after the cause was ruled as “undetermined” by the pathologist who performed the autopsy.

A week after wreaths were laid at the site where trucker Jadesh Dass was found dead, in observance of what would have been the man’s 33rd birthday, the man’s family says witnesses remain afraid to go to the police.

The 16-year-old girl who was brutally chopped with a cutlass by her lover at Big Creek Backdam, North West District (NWD) last month has been transferred to the Female Medical Ward of the Georgetown Hospital.

The paternal grandparents of the 17-year-old student of a private school who attempted suicide by ingesting a poisonous substance after they allegedly abused her were arrested by the police yesterday.

Police have arrested a suspect over the murder of miner Colin Jackson called “Jacko” who was fatally shot at the Ikewan Backdam  in the Cuyuni on Tuesday night.

OSLO, Norway,  CMC – Jamaican Usain Bolt overcame a sluggish to produce a blistering finish, getting up in the final few metres to beat counterpart Asafa Powell and set a new meet record at the Diamond League Bislett Games here today.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall today presented arguments to acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, opening government’s legal bid to restore over $20B in allocations cut from the national budget.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner presented the “Development Impact Honors” award to IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno during a ceremony today at the U.S.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – Rain has forced the abandonment of the opening day of the third and final Test between England and West Indies at Edgbaston here today.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T spends more of its national budget on security than most other Caribbean countries, says Ashley Taylor, president of the Point Lisas Port Development Corporation Ltd (Plipdeco).

Parts of Kingston, Georgetown were flooded this morning after the attendant for a koker on Water Street left it open.

(Trinidad Guardian) The liquidator of Clico Investment Bank has begun the process of selling the assets of the bankrupt company, which collapsed in January 2009 under the weight of its inter-company debt and risky real estate loans.

(Trinidad Express) Guyana’s minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Irfaan Ali , has made a pitch to yachties in Trinidad to come visit his country as his Government attempts to stimulate an ecotourism-based economy.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Chairman Rudy Balak of the shopkeepers’ association VvW does not object to government plans to expand store hours, since “this is the current situation anyway.”

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Umpire Billy Doctrove, who along with Australian Darrell Hair was at the centre of the controversial Oval test which Pakistan forfeited against England in 2006, has announced his retirement.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country offered to insurgents in neighbouring Afghanistan.

ISTANBUL  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today urged Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power and leave his country, condemning a massacre near the town of Hama that was blamed on his supporters as unconscionable.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday criticised the PPP/C administration’s move to the High Court over the opposition budget cuts, warning that the continued resort to legal action over parliamentary decisions signals the danger of a constitutional crisis of unimagined proportions.

Police say that at about 0005h yesterday ranks of a mobile police patrol stopped and searched two men who were walking