Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Barbados will borrow over Bds$250 million from the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank in an effort to make itself energy-efficient and cut the country’s high fuel import bill, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.

(Barbados Nation) Another Irishman has taken over control of grounded Barbadian-based carrier REDjet, while outspoken businessman Ralph “Bizzy” Williams has quietly departed the airline’s board.

(Trinidad Express) After more than four years, September 14 was the date given yesterday in court for the conclusion of the assault trial against soca star Machel Montano and three other entertainers.

Delano Williams who was charged with causing the death of Sewcharran Persaud Ugraj by dangerous driving on June 26 last year on Sheriff Street, Georgetown, was  freed of all charges when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

(Trinidad Express) Regional financial institution Bank of NT Butterfield and Son Ltd yesterday announced it had reached an agreement to sell its Barbados subsidiary, Butterfield Bank (Barbados) Ltd, to State bank First Citizens.

(Trinidad Express) Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal has, with immediate effect, resigned as president of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT), saying she feels as if she was personally under attack.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Bouterse underscores that cooperation with the European Union should be based on mutual interests and not meddling in Suriname’s internal affairs.

(Trinidad Express) Contractors are paying more for cement now after local producer Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) increased prices again.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan yesterday said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be re-contacted in a matter of weeks to conduct a formal accident report into the allegations of radiation overexposure at the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre.

CGX Energy Inc is moving on to other locations in its hunt for oil after drilling at the Eagle-1 location in the Corentyne Basin proved to be futile, with the company now having to raise an additional US$20 million to finance the added drilling days spent at that site.

A father of three died yesterday morning and another man is recovering after a speeding car slammed into them on the Wales Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Sunday night; the driver of the car is in police custody.

The 10-member National Commission on Disability was yesterday launched and will be responsible for improving the quality of life by, among other measures, enforcing the almost two-year-old legislation to protect persons with disabilities.

Two hinterland-based miners were shot about their bodies last evening during a robbery on D’Urban Street in the city.

Sandra V Jones has been sworn in as the new commissioner on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), and Opposition Leader David Granger defended her selection as being based on “pure merit.”

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Dr Steve Surujbally yesterday said he has accepted that the incorrect declaration that was nearly made by Chief Elections Officer Gocool Boodoo was nothing but a human error until he sees proof to the contrary.

A three-year-old Liverpool, Corentyne boy is slowly recovering from head and other injuries he sustained after an electrical pole broke and fell on him as he was walking in his family’s yard on Saturday.

General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis says that the invitation by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to the Leader of the Opposition, who is also Leader of APNU, David Granger, ignores the fact that the achievement of the budgetary cuts “were not singularly done by APNU.”

A man was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment yesterday by Magistrate Sueann Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court when he appeared before her to answer the charge of unlawful wounding.

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is drawing controversy over a number of projects in the Caribbean, including the US$138 million expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and others, which have evoked public criticism over procurement and tendering.

The man who is accused of murdering US-based Guyanese, Walter Sankar, at Kingston, Georgetown, was yesterday charged with the capital offence when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.