Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was a thinner-than-usual Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke who appeared in handcuffs in the United States Southern District Court in Lower Manhattan this morning to hear his one-time lieutenant Jermaine ‘Cowboy’ Cohen tender explosive evidence against him.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A prostitution scandal in Colombia involving U.S. Secret Service and military personnel ahead of a presidential visit has spawned a separate investigation into the behavior of Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Cartagena, officials said on Monday.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippines’ top judge took the witness stand at his own impeachment trial today to deny concealing 45 properties and millions in assets and denounce a case President Benigno Aquino sees as key to rooting out corruption.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tourism Minister Dr Rupert Griffith will reappear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate on July 4 after he pleaded not guilty to using insulting language.

(Jamaica Observer) Vice-President of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals Rev Peter Garth has urged Jamaicans not to leave the repeal of buggery laws to parliamentarians, but instead called for a referendum on this issue, which has again taken centre stage with the recent endorsement of same-sex marriage by United States President Barack Obama.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians have rejected recent proposals for the Freundel Stuart administration to inject money in low-cost carrier REDjet.

(Trinidad Express) The illicit drug trade, trafficking in illegal guns, gang violence, human trafficking and smuggling are all challenges facing the Caribbean, said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as she addressed the Second Caricom-Mexico Summit in Bridgetown, Barbados, yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Two media workers — a crime reporter and a cameraman — were among four people arrested on Sunday night, minutes after they allegedly robbed an Arouca businessman of more than TT$300,000.

(Trinidad Express) The extensive network of the illegal bunkering of diesel ultimately charters a course for the high seas- where it fetches top dollar on the black market.

(WICB) LONDON – West Indies Cricket Board advised on Tuesday that fast bowler Shannon Gabriel will return home to Trinidad & Tobago from the tour of England due to a back injury.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was yesterday admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.

A scam at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) now under wider investigation entailed the creation of bogus letters from government agencies requesting duty-free concessions on expensive vehicles and the subsequent forging of signatures of top GRA officials.

Renowned sculptor Phillip Moore’s body will be brought to Georgetown for a viewing today at the Square of the Revolution after several cultural groups intervened on behalf of his family.

The wife of murdered US-based Guyanese Abdul Majid was arrested on Sunday shortly after she arrived in the country and police are treating her as the prime suspect in his slaying.

A Guyanese woman and her son graduated from high school in the USA together last week, receiving their diplomas on Saturday at the graduation of the Adult & Career Education at the Harborside Event Centre in Fort Myers, Florida.

Pioneering the commercial cultivation of carrots and onions in Trinidad, Caribbean Chemicals says that it would be open to doing the same here.

By John Richards Dr Faith Harding’s Quick Impact Project yesterday started the planting of 30 acres of sorrel in the Long Creek community, which when harvested, will be offered for sale on the local and foreign market.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday told a Caricom-Mexico summit that key concerns of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been left out of preparatory meetings for the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development known as Rio+20.

A man was shot and injured on Sunday morning at Bourda Road while two armed men were escaping after robbing a director of Church’s Restaurant.

Police say that the 46-year old miner, who was discovered by family members with a gunshot wound to his right side abdomen on Sunday, had attempted suicide.