Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) A joint police probe is now underway into the shooting deaths of four people including two elderly men in Rejoin district in Hanover last night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One of the founding members of The Skatalites Band, Lloyd Brevett is dead.

A 43 year old miner was this afternoon found dead with chop wounds about the body in his East Street home.

In a notice in today’s Guyana Chronicle, the Ministry of Public Works is advising REDjet customers who were unable to travel because of the suspension of service by the airline to submit requests for refunds.

Ravendra Pooran, a taxi driver of Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara was today found murdered at Logwood, Enmore.

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

(Trinidad Express) The Integrity Commission will be examining the procedure and practices at ministries, State agencies, regional corporations and all public bodies in a bid to fight corruption and improve ethical conduct.

(Trinidad Express) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine and his Grenadian counterpart, Nazim Burke, have met and discussed maritime boundary issues between Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.

(Trinidad Express) Congress of the People (COP) Leader Prakash Ramadhar has apparently yielded to the principle of collective Cabinet responsibility.

(Reuters) – Flamboyant opener Chris Gayle has scrapped his deal with English county Somerset to make himself available for West Indies after ending his year-long dispute with the cricket board.

US Ambassador to Guyana Dr. Brent Hardt says while it is encouraging that government has taken steps to free the airwaves and end the model of limited, state-influenced radio, it is important that the process going forward comes under the purview of an impartial and transparent National Broadcasting Authority.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday threw out the action brought by government to challenge the numerical make up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection, saying that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter since there was no evidence of a constitutional breach.

Sandra V. Jones, a human resources and organisational specialist, has been confirmed as the new Commissioner on the Guyana Elections Commission.

The Ministry of Health, with assistance from the George-town Public Hospital Corpo-ration (GPHC) and Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), is investigating how two pregnant women died during labour, with Minister Dr.

A man was yesterday sent to prison after he pleaded guilty to three charges put to him by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton accusing him of unlawful assault, threatening language and disorderly behaviour after  clashes with his son, his daughter-in-law and the police.

Former Police Commissioner Henry Greene was up to press time last evening a patient at a city hospital after he took ill earlier in the day.

Amid speculation that snap elections might be on the horizon, PPP/C leaders last evening told supporters of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice that the parliamentary arrangement is becoming untenable and urged them to use their votes to ensure it does not find itself again in its current situation.

Director of the Government Information Agency (GINA), Neaz Subhan, says that  the actions of the combined opposition to reduce the budget of the agency to one dollar have put the staff at risk of losing their jobs and he described this “as a wanton attack on press freedom.”

General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) Rawlston Adams says that rehabilitation works on the eastern hydraulic ramp have been completed and the bridge is ready.

Eon Andrews, President of the United Minibus Association (UMA), has said that neither the Ministry of Commerce nor the Guyana Police Force has the authority to set fares that have been increased by private minibus operators.