Guyana News

mid deep cuts to its 2012 budget and speculation that it wants to call a snap election, the PPP yesterday afternoon announced that it will be hosting public meetings across the country.

Relatives of murdered Mahaica truck driver Jadesh Dass, who was shot and killed over a week ago, say that police are getting nowhere in the investigation.

Relatives of the eight-year-old boy who is feared drowned after he disappeared in the rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean have arranged a search party and combed through the seawall and surrounding area in the hope of finding the child.

Leader of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes says her organisation has faced a number of challenges in its response to issues such as trafficking in persons (TIP) and forced prostitution in mining communities and is seeking ways to strengthen its network of support.

Head of the European Union Delegation to Guyana Robert Kopecky commissioned the Toshao’s building at Bina Hill and inspected other EU-funded projects in the Northern Rupununi during a three-day visit to the area last week.

Regularising of the `backtrack’ route between Guyana and Suriname and boosting security along the frontier were among the issues raised by the Berbice business community at a meeting on Sunday with President Donald Ramotar.

A man who was accused of trafficking in cannabis in Alberttown was remanded to prison on Monday by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry after he pleaded not guilty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Private Sector Commission is seeking an audience with Leader of the Opposition David Granger, President Donald Ramotar and the PPP/C with regards to the $21 billion in cuts made to the $192.8 billion 2012 national budget since it is of the view those cuts will ultimately affect the private sector.

As police continue their investigations into the murder of taxi driver Renie Williams, family members remain clueless as to why the man was killed.

(Barbados Nation) A 35-year-old Christ Church man has been charged in connection with the gruesome killing of Nicole Harrison-Watson.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – American Muslims grew in number over the past decade, outnumbering Jews for the first time in most of the Midwest and part of the South, while most mainline churches lost adherents, according to a census of American religions released today.

Head of FITUG Carvil Duncan today called on President Donald Ramotar to install an Interim Management Council for Georgetown.

Amid deep cuts to its 2012 budget and speculation that it wants to call a snap election, the PPP this afternoon announced that it will be hosting public meetings across the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch is unfit to run a major international company, British lawmakers said today, finding him responsible for a culture of illegal phone hacking that has convulsed his News Corporation media empire.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A red-tinged sea of Cubans marched through Havana’s Revolution Square on Tuesday in a May Day parade that affirmed the government’s intention of assuring a communist future for the Caribbean island.

The Private Sector Commission is seeking an audience with Leader of the Opposition David Granger, President Donald Ramotar and the PPP/C with regards to the $21 billion in cuts made to the $192.8 billion 2012 national budget since it is of the view those cuts will ultimately affect the private sector.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York judge today rejected a motion by former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, allowing the suit to go forward.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities have arrested five self-described anarchists in Cleveland for allegedly plotting to blow up a bridge, the U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) ALEXANDRIA, St Ann — Dean of discipline at the Aabuthnott Gallimore High Gavin Myers, who was injured by a group of Grade 11 male students last Friday, is recuperating in hospital.

(Jamaica Observer) Scores of tertiary level students who were barred from sitting their final year exams because of outstanding school fees were yesterday given more time by the University of the West Indies (UWI) to pay over the money owed.