Guyana News

(Trinidad Newsday) The Caribbean region is facing its “deepest crisis” yet, distinguished writer George Lamming said last week as he called for readers to embrace literature dealing with aspects of history that have been largely erased from society’s collective consciousness.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former West Indies fast bowler, Courtney Walsh, says the current West Indies cricket team has what it takes to be competitive against world number one England.

(Barbados Nation) International Recording Band Third World is apologizing for disappointing the thousands of fans who turned up at Farley Hill National Park for the Barbados Reggae Festival’s climax on Sunday.

(Barbados Nation) Add another CAN$2 million to the fight against the illegal drug and firearms trade in the Caribbean.

(Barbados Nation) Almond Beach Village in St Peter is now officially closed for business.

(Barbados Nation) ICBL EMPIRE players breached the Barbados Cricket Association’s (BCA) code of conduct seven times last year, and one of their leading players will serve a multiple-match suspension at the start of the new season.

(Trinidad Express) The decision by the Congress of the People (COP) to take an independent position with respect to Government’s policies could affect the passage of legislation which requires a special majority, Government Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal said yesterday.

Rowley to take T&T PM to Integrity Commission over sister (Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday announced that the issue of the TT$866,000 of public funds spent on the travels of the Prime Minister’s sister, Vidwatie Newton, is to be referred to the Integrity Commission.

Salim Bacchus, the remaining defendant in the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) 82lb cocaine bust at Skeldon, Corentyne, Berbice last year, was freed yesterday.

PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran yesterday said that the PPP had opposed the cut-off of state advertisements to Stabroek News in 2006 but was ignored by the government of former President Bharrat Jagdeo.

A taxi-driver was gunned down execution-style early yesterday morning near his home in Albouystown, and investigators and his family are so far baffled about the motive.

The National Communica-tions Network (NCN) will put a freeze on hiring new staff after losing over $82 million in government subventions for the year.

A 17-year-old boy of Number 70 Village, Corentyne was brutally murdered when he tried to make peace during an argument between his stepfather and two other men around 7.30 pm on Sunday.

The Guyanese medical student who knifed a Cuban man to death last Friday night before slitting a woman’s throat had “tripped out” during an argument over the price of a watch, according to well placed sources.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh yesterday cast doubt on whether government can muster support from APNU and AFC for supplementary budget funds, while saying that some jobs will go as a result of their reduction of public spending for this year.

A 58-year-old shopkeeper of Issano, Mazaruni River was refused bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly trafficking in cannabis.

The flight of three of the four girls who were rescued from an alleged prostitution ring in the Oko Backdam, in Region Seven, could hamper the police investigation, according to women’s rights activist Karen De Souza, who has also knocked the manner in which human trafficking is handled by the authorities.

Sixty-one-year old Wilson Chan was yesterday sentenced to 25 years in prison for the killing of his reputed wife, but will serve 8 years after deductions were made for time already spent in jail and mitigating factors.

Although the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce has advised against a raise in minibus fares, some minibus operators are going against that and charging commuters an additional $20 to $40 on their regular fares.

Relatives of eight-year-old Devon ‘Luke’ Gibson of Lot 9 – 10 Queen Street, South Cummings-burg who disappeared into the rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday last are claiming that he was “murdered”; the boy is still listed as missing and feared drowned.