Guyana News

(WICB) ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board recently met by teleconference and are pleased that consistent with his previous commitment Mr.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six police officers were suspended yesterday and 12 others are under investigation after allegations of corruption and misbehaviour in the Eastern Division.

The police today said that during yesterday they conducted searches on two buildings at Charlotte Street and Norton Street, Georgetown.

(Jamaica Observer) Government will be allocating at least J$143 million in this year’s national Budget to roll out a major programme to clean up several communities across the island, which will include the eradication of rats that have been plaguing a number of areas in recent weeks.

The Guyana Revenue Authority today said that two of its officers are being probed for forging the signatures of senior officers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of Finance and Planning has broken its silence in a vigorous public debate over a tax raid on telecommunications firm Digicel late last week, claiming there appears to be “a concerted campaign to discredit the work of the Tax Administration of Jamaica (TAJ)”.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The police union SPB expects new Minister of Justice and Police Edward Belfort to tackle crime with the same drive as former Minister Chandrikapersad Santokhi, as both Belfort and Santokhi are former police officers.

(Barbados Nation) The Opposition is charging that Government is preparing to borrow US$183 million as part of a “secret deal” with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Twin bomb blasts in the Syrian capital Damascus killed 40 people and wounded more than 170, Syrian state television said today.

Ogle Airport has moved nearer to hosting regional carriers—now expected by December—with the completion of its runway expansion.

A Sophia mother of nine dropped dead last evening after police fired several shots in an open area with civilians, a short distance from her home.

The major waterways in Region Nine have started to overtop and residents of several communities across the region have been leaving their homes to seek higher ground as they fear a repeat of last year’s devastating floods.

Corn Bread Mini Mart shooting victim, Glen Xavier succumbed to his injuries yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) while the other injured man remains a patient in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the same hospital.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison on causing death by dangerous driving charges at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court following two separate accidents

One day after surrendering to police, Joseph Taylor, the man who allegedly beat his reputed wife unconscious with a hammer, was arraigned at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court yesterday

Government is hoping that Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman will today disallow a number of motions in Parliament by the Opposition seeking to repeal the President’s pension and other benefits law, change the way some constitutional bodies function and compelling NICIL to put its monies into the Consolidated Fund.

The Mayor & City Council (M&CC) yesterday hosted a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss plans to rescue Georgetown, in the light of the 200th anniversary since its naming.

Even as 80 newly-trained health care professionals from the Technical Division of Health Sciences Education prepare to embark on a new career path, they and their coordinators are calling for an increase in the  $5,000 a month stipend for trainees.

Land connection of Guyana, Brazil and Suriname would be the focus of Europe’s future investment in developing the Guianas, according to European Union (EU) Ambassador Robert Kopecký, who yesterday appealed for the states to begin engagements to lay the foundation for the process.

Law enforcement officials yesterday made another big cocaine bust in Berbice before it could leave the country for Suriname and one man was in police custody up to press time last night.