Guyana News

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) is celebrating the contributions of all its volunteers and donors and is encouraging young people in their continued action and leadership under the global theme ‘Youth on the move’ to mark World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.

Five persons lost their home yesterday afternoon when a fire of unknown origin gutted the upper flat of a wooden house in East Canje, Berbice.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) is expected to investigate the circumstances surrounding the injuries sustained by three-year old Gerald Durant, who was struck in his head by a falling utility pole on Saturday at Liverpool, Corentyne.

The Ministry of Public Works is expected to start repair work on the bridge at Cemetery Road, La Penitence, where two cars plunged overboard over the past few days, resulting in one fatality.

While heaping praise on the sterling work of the Caribbean Animal Health Network (CaribVET), Caricom Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque cautioned against complacency in the fight against animal health diseases in the region.

CARICOM Foreign Ministers  have denounced in strong terms the negative impact that the UK’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax continues to have on the region’s revenue sources.

Six companies yesterday each submitted bids for the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Linden Water Supply Rehabilitation Treatment and Storage works and Booster Stations.

The Mayor and City Council is initiating plans to arrest the further decline of Georgetown, at a stakeholder meeting planned for today at the Pegasus Hotel.

The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) is introducing biometric clinics for Suriname nationals who wish to obtain a visa to travel to the UK.

(Barbados Nation) Two government ministers soundly criticized Barbados Workers’ Union general secretary Sir Roy Trotman on the floor of Parliament yesterday for calling an employer an “Egyptian Jew”.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies allrounder Narsingh Deonarine will most likely miss the regional team’s warm-up match against England Lions at Northampton, starting tomorrow as he continues to wait for a United Kingdom travel visa in Jamaica.

INDIANAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the Senate and leading foreign policy voice, was defeated in the Indiana Republican primary by a Tea Party-backed challenger today, the first Senate incumbent ousted in the 2012 election year.

Preliminary investigations into the murder of taxi driver Rajendra Puran do not point in the direction of a carjacking and police are on the hunt for several of his associates, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said today.

Joseph Taylor who was wanted by the police in relation to the attempted murder of Euricka Garraway on 2012-04-04, turned himself in to the police today.

Police today said that Paul Azar of 38 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following investigations into an accident that occurred on November 30, 2011 at Main Road, New Amsterdam, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Mignauth Sumrah of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian chart-topping group Cover Drive yesterday released their first album, Bajan Style, featuring 18 tracks including latest single Sparks, and chart-riders Twilight and Lick Ya Down.

The National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) of St Vincent today dismissed reports of volcanic activity at the La Soufriere volcano saying that the stormy weather across the Caribbean may be responsible for the panic among nationals.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc is informing consumers in the Demerara Interconnected System (DIS) that supply to sections of the East Coast and Georgetown was adversely affected yesterday as a result of an intermittent problem  which caused the inadvertent tripping of the circuit breaker linking two  5.5MW generators at the Garden of Eden Wartsila  plant to the system.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a unity government today in a surprise move that could give him a freer hand to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and seek peace with the Palestinians.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The People’s National Party (PNP) says it has no record of having received any donation from former Olint boss David Smith.