Guyana News

Members of a Linden family escaped lightly after the car they were travelling in was hurled to the side when another vehicle ran a red light at the corner of Vlissengen and Thomas Road last evening.

Minibus driver Monel McIntyre was yesterday sentenced to three months imprisonment for assaulting a ‘tout’ who attempted to lure one of his passengers away.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) is currently addressing an ongoing dispute between a Lethem taxi driver and a businessman in the area over a parcel of sand-bearing land on the outskirts of the Rupununi community.

(Trinidad Express) A Sangre  Grande roti-vending couple were found killed at Coalmine yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Documents obtained by the T&T Guardian have shed new light on the ownership of the Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, the multi-million-dollar football facility at Macoya.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Mandeville police have launched an intensive probe into the murder of medical doctor, Clinton Lewis, who was found at his apartment in the Manchester capital today.

(Barbados Nation) Insurance companies in Barbados disbursed just about Bds$25 million in claims as a result of 1 700 claims reported due to Tropical Storm Tomas, which hit the island on October 30, 2010.

LEICESTER, England,  CMC – Guyanese left-hander Assad Fudadin says he is hoping to rekindle his love affair with England once he get a look-in during the ongoing series.

Parliament Office today said that the sittings of the National Assembly scheduled for June 6th and 7th have been postponed to June 13th and 14th.

Police say that statistics as at the end of May, 2012 reflected a 26% decrease in accidents and fatalities when compared to the same period in 2011.

Notice has been served by Parliament Office that Prime Minister Sam Hinds will move a motion seeking to have the House ensure that Members of Parliament submit annual declarations in keeping with the provisions of the Integrity Act of 1997.

The Ministry of Housing has uncovered a group of fraudsters who have so far bilked $1M from an overseas-based Guyanese while posing as officials of the ministry.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 45-year-old man was shot dead on Wednesday night while sitting behind the counter of his Chaguanas parlour.

(Trinidad Guardian) The editors-in-chief of two daily newspapers have been summoned by Justice Mark Mohammed to discuss the comments posted by readers on the newspapers’ Web sites concerning the sedition case of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr.

(Jamaica Observer) Local bankers say Government’s tax policy is threatening the viability of the financial sector.

(Jamaica Observer) Trade unions which represent public sector workers yesterday signed off on a wage freeze covering 2010/2012, but indicated that this could be the last wage freeze, at least, for the time being.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Cable & Wireless Jamaica, which trades as LIME Jamaica, is now dependent on its parent for survival after hitting a new record in losses both at the telecoms and of any stock market company in the exchange’s five decades of trading.

(Barbados Nation) A day after Central Bank Governor Dr Delisle Worrell offered some positive reassurance about the performance of the Barbados economy, the international rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has sounded the warning that it is not yet out of the woods.

(Trinidad Express) The Police Service Commission (PSC) views “very seriously” the “apparent contradiction” between statements of Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard and Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs on the issue of investigations into bribery allegations against Jack Warner and others at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port of Spain, in May 2011.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Relations between Suriname and the European Union (EU) will not break down because of amnesty for President Desi Bouterse, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin and legislator Mahinder Jogi (NF/VHP) say during separate interviews with de Ware Tijd.