Guyana News

Almost three months into what was intended to have been a six-week offshore campaign, officials are tight-lipped about the state of the drilling at the CGX Energy Inc’s 100 percent operated Eagle 1 well which should have been completed by the end of April, leading to the belief that oil was not found in commercial quantities.

Government yesterday expressed its unhappiness with the ruling of Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang which saw its challenge of the numerical make-up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection being thrown out and said it will be studying the implications of the ruling.

The Guyanese scholarship student, who allegedly murdered a man and slit a woman’s throat in Cuba, will be given legal representation and his future in the scholarship programme will hinge on the outcome of the court case, according to Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton granted a 17-year-old boy charged with assaulting his aunt and uncle $15,000 bail while the said relatives were each placed on $10,000 bail for using abusive and threatening abusive language towards him, when the case was heard on Wednesday.

Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon says APNU plans to host 19 community meetings throughout the region in order to educate its constituents on components of the 2012 National Budget and inform them about the rationale behind the cuts voted for in Parliament.

Two sisters and another woman who appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on assault and wounding  charges were granted bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

The state-owned National Communications Network Inc. sees the possibility of job losses in the state media resulting from the $21 billion in cuts to the national budget  and has condemned the  private media, the GHRA   and the GPA over their refusal  to speak out in support of the professionals who may be affected.

The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department says it is encouraged by recent cooperation agreements it has forged with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), which will allow it to inspect imports at the various ports-of-entry prior to them being released on the domestic market.

Two Guyanese men were among a number of others remanded in Antigua over a stolen car and drugs, according to yesterday’s Antigua Observer.

A Guyanese man has pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud on Canadian phone company, Telus and has been slapped with house arrest for 12 months and will have to make restitution.

(Barbados Nation) Prominent businessman Jacob Hassid yesterday responded with shock and anger to union boss Sir Roy Trotman’s labelling of him as an “Egyptian Jew”, while warning that such an “unfair and unjust” attack could stir up racial hatred in the country.

(Trinidad Express) Sixty-eight year-old grandmother Grace Pierre-Holder and 29-year-old Daenah John-Finn were yesterday found guilty by an eight-member jury of having cocaine in their possession for the purpose of trafficking.

(Trinidad Express) As gang violence continues to rear its ugly head in and around the capital city, three persons have been shot dead and four others wounded in separate shooting incidents.

(Trinidad Express) The Republic Bank Group has recorded a net profit attributable to shareholders of TT$550.1 million for the financial half-year ended March 31.

MAIDUGURI/ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Gunmen threw bombs and opened fire on a cattle market in remote northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 60 people, a spokesman for Yobe state governor said, an attack whose motives remain unknown.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands,  (Reuters) – A diplomatic spat in the normally tranquil Cayman Islands has put the ruling party and the British government at loggerheads after the locally elected premier accused London of conspiring with opposition politicians to “ruin this country.”

EDINBURG, Texas, (Reuters) – Two men face immigrant harboring charges after authorities found 115 undocumented people inside three small South Texas houses, some of whom did not have access to food or water for days, according to federal court records published today.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt could have an unexpected challenger when the Jamaican world record holder runs his first 100 metres on Saturday.

Government today expressed its unhappiness with the ruling of Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang which saw its challenge of the numerical make-up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection being thrown out and said it will be studying the implications of the ruling.

A Guyanese man has pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud on Canadian phone company, Telus and has been slapped with house arrest for 12 months and will have to make restitution.