Guyana News

A miner in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of trafficking in 195 grams of  cannabis but he maintained that the narcotics he had was not meant for trafficking but for personal use.

The Linden IMC Town Week Committee plans to conduct rehabilitation works at the once thriving Bamia Creek, one of several projects it has earmarked for funding from the $4.8M it made from Town Week celebrations.

The Government Analyst Department is advising veterinarians not to administer cephalosporins as a treatment to food producing animals in order to preserve the effectiveness of this drug for treating disease in humans.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Friday granted a man $100,000 bail when he appeared in court to answer to charges that he had attempted to commit passport fraud and he had submitted false information to the Central Immigration Office.

Travis Prince was yesterday granted $50,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton when he appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on an indictable  charge of robbery with violence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Detectives investigating the deaths of two men in separate incidents in San Juan on Monday afternoon believe they were both executed.

(Barbados Nation) A licensed gun dealer, who spent a day and a half in jail after being charged with illegal storing of firearms, has filed lawsuits against Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Telecommunications firm Digicel has indicated that it will be appealing against a Supreme Court ruling that was handed down this morning.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Currently Suriname has a population of 534,000 people, 498,000 of whom are Surinamers and 36,000 foreigners.

Khemraj Ramjattan, parliamentarian of the Alliance For Change (AFC), says that he does not want to have a debate with Head of the Privatisation Unit and CEO of National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington, but wants to interrogate and cross-examine him in a parliamentary committee on the question of improprieties.

Councillor Gwendolyn McGowan has been banned from making contact with officers within the Mayor and City Council on the instructions of Mayor Hamilton Green, but the reason for his action was not made clear.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s limpet-like batting and the express pace of Kemar Roach and Fidel Edwards will make West Indies dangerous opponents for strong favourites England in the three-test series starting on Thursday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite strong opposition from the governors of two major United States cities and immigrant groups, the Obama administration says it will extend a controversial fingerprinting programme that identifies Caribbean and other illegal immigrants.

Queen’s College student Glinton Hanover has won a two-year, CDN$80,000 ($16.5M) scholarship to the Lester B Pearson College, Canada.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Five uncapped Indian cricketers have been provisionally suspended following allegations of corruption in the lucrative Indian Premier League, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged today with interfering with a police investigation into a phone hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon’s media empire and sent shockwaves through the British political establishment.

(Trinidad Express) International energy giants BP and BG Trinidad and Tobago yesterday signed three production sharing contracts (PSCs) for oil and gas exploration as a culmination of last July’s deep water energy bid round.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has called on Government to return Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) to the original business model at the time of its inception, and, among other things, to stop the airline from running a parallel service to compete with Leewards Islands Air Transport (LIAT) in and around the Caribbean.

The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will meet in a protocolary session today at 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT) in the Hall of the Americas at the headquarters of the organization in Washington, DC, to receive the President of Guyana, Donald Ramotar, a press release from the OAS said.