Guyana News

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – Bahamians voted today in national elections as Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham seeks to keep the ruling party in power in this sparsely populated island chain dependent on tourism and offshore banking.

MONGSTAD, Norway,  (Reuters) – Norway today launched the world’s largest facility of its kind to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS), the so-far commercially unproven technology that would allow greenhouse gases from power plants to be buried safely underground.

(WICB) HOVE, England – Darren Bravo felt it was unfortunate that there was so little play in the West Indies’ tour opener against Sussex, which ended in a no-result today.

A father of three died this morning and another is in critical condition after a speeding car slammed into them on the Wales Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD) last night.

(Jamaica Observer) A 24-year-old song writer of a Waltham Park Kingston address has been sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labour over what has been described as “a crime of passion”.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former High Commissioner to London, Anthony Johnson, refused to submit his resignation to the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the change of political administration in early January.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As part of his mandate to place special emphasis on early-childhood education, Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has announced that some 50 early-childhood facilities will be constructed across the island over the coming months.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Relations between Suriname and Brazil are at unprecedented heights in terms of the fields of cooperation including energy, the agrarian sector, government policy and social development, says Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Ronnie Brunswijk, chair A Combinatie will continue to back Desi Bouterse until 2030, adding that his cooperation with his firmer adversary is meant to demonstrate true peace to the Surinamese society.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Roman Catholic bishop Wilhelmus de Bekker claims that President Desi Bouterse has issued unfounded accusations of his participation in the protest march against the adopted Amnesty Act.

(Jamaica Observer) More women are cheating on their partners, a feature of changing gender roles in the Caribbean, according to a tri-nation study carried out in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

(Barbados Nation) Veteran sports journalist Trevor Thorpe and a law enforcement officer remain hospitalized after being struck by a car at  Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Shakedown Stages Rally in St John yesterday.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) will continue to push for reform of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) with the AFC calling for the commission to be a more “professional body” rather than a “politically dominated” body.

A taxi driver died yesterday morning when he collided with a motor lorry along the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

The teenager who was unconscious after the taxi he was in plunged into the Sussex Street Canal on Saturday evening died hours after the incident.

Two persons were yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital by the police following a violent confrontation between them at Norton Street, Lodge, during which one was stabbed to the neck and the other chopped twice to the head.

With the budget debates and the examination of the estimates out of the way, government will be proceeding with its legislative agenda in the National Assembly, Presidential Advisor on Governance and PPP/C MP Gail Teixeira has said.

Relatives of 42-year-old Andre Thompson, who died early Saturday morning when a tug belonging to the Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Ltd ran over a small launch he was asleep in at De Veldt, Berbice River plan to meet with officials from the company to seek compensation.

As the water levels in the main waterways in northern Brazil rose last week, residents of Lethem are bracing for the worst and some are criticizing the authorities over the absence of a broad-based flood preparation plan.

Acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma is yet to complete the audit he initiated into the $90 million allocated to the Guyana Police Force for the 2011 general and regional elections and over which a senior rank received a lot of flak for speaking out.