Guyana News

Roman Catholic bishops from across the region have expressed concern at the amnesty law recently passed by Suriname’s National Assembly and warned that it could have an adverse impact on human rights trials.

Taxi driver Rajendra Puran, who was found with his hands and feet tied at Enmore, East Coast Demerara on Thursday, died as a result of strangulation and blunt trauma to the head.

A city zookeeper was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for assaulting his ex-girlfriend.

Repeat offender Marlon Bradshaw was yesterday sentenced to 18 months imprisonment when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and admitted to stealing a four-year-old’s earrings.

A woman accused of removing the stairs used by her tenant to gain access to their upper flat apartment was placed on $15,000 bail when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Two men are in custody and are expected to face charges soon after one of them allegedly attacked a policeman with a knife and later stole his gun.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel has secured a court order barring Tax Administration Department (TAJ) from extracting information from its servers.

(Barbados Nation) Heavy rainfall yesterday triggered flooding and the forecast is more of the same over the weekend.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty people were held up and robbed by three gunmen who stormed the St Vincent Street, Port of Spain, branch of Island Finance on Thursday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday the Opposition supports Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in her position that there was no need for a referendum on pulling away from the Privy Council and moving to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the final court of appeal.

(Trinidad Express) Say sorry. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Finance Minister Winston Dookeran must apologise for creating a national “scandal” and misleading the people of this country on the true financial position of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL), says Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) recorded a consolidated unaudited loss of US$52.8 million (TT$339.5 million) for 2011, while Air Jamaica recorded an unaudited loss of US$38.1 million (TT$ 245.2 million).

A man died this evening after a drive- by shooting on Sussex Street, Charlestown.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell has withdrawn from tomorrow’s Jamaica International invitational with a groin injury, ending any shot at racing against Usain Bolt, his agent said today.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) – A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications giant AT&T created a “hostile work environment” after her conversion, according to a judge’s order issued today.

While congratulating Sandra Jones on her nomination as a GECOM commissioner, the Alliance For Change today slammed Opposition Leader David Granger over the principle and methodology employed in the selection.

Police say that a post-mortem examination was today performed on the body of Rajendra Pooran of Grove, EBD, by Pathologist Dr.

Two men are in custody after sticking up a cop at Crab Island Public Road, Berbice after he had picked them up at Ogle.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s absence from the spotlight, his creation of a formal advisory committee, and media leaks of medical details are feeding speculation of a downturn in his nearly year-long battle with cancer.

In the wake of increased minibus fares, Minister of Finance Dr.