Guyana News

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – The Dutch Lower House rejected all three resolution submitted by the Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV) on Suriname.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) resident representative, Robert Fuderich, has given Jamaica a less-than-impressive grade for efforts made to satisfy the requirements of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Several prominent attorneys yesterday welcomed a move by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to create a new post that will have responsibility for streamlining criminal prosecutions involving the police.

(Trinidad Newsday) The 25-year-old suspect  being sought in connection with the brutal murder of Nikita Ramischand, 18, the  daughter of prominent attorney Odai Ramischand fled Trinidad five hours after he  is alleged to have killed the teen.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Gunmen in inflatable dinghies attacked a military unit on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, state media said today, the first seaborne assault in a 13-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados may have avoided a dreaded downgrade from the powerful international rating agencies.

President Donald Ramotar last night assailed the opposition for slashing the 2012 budget and accused the main opposition – APNU – of reneging on agreements reached with his administration but said that he remains committed to dialogue.

The police in Trinidad & Tobago believe that the killer of Nikita Ramischand, the 18-year-old daughter of prominent Guyana-born attorney Odai Ramischand, left the island on a Caribbean Airlines flight and has returned to Guyana.

The governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said yesterday that an email address linked to the party had been hacked into and a missive sent from it allegedly threatening the life of columnist and talk show host Christopher Ram; the party has initiated a police investigation.

Two baggage handlers have been charged with drug trafficking over the cocaine find on Thursday at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri (CJIA).

Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr. Roger Luncheon says that the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) may have to apply for a tariff increase as a result of not getting a $1 billion in subsidies which was intended to cushion fuel costs.

Residents of Lethem, in Region Nine are planning to picket the offices of the regional administration as well as the power company as the community and nearby villages remain affected by power outages since last Sunday.

In a rotting Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara shack, Rickford McKenzie spends most of his good days in a chair in front of the television.

PPP/C executive members yesterday slammed the joint opposition for the $21 billion cut to the national budget, saying that the move was made out of revenge and not in the best interest of the nation.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday said that Thursday’s $20 million cut of the Custom Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) budgetary allocation by the joint opposition sends the wrong message to drug traffickers and the international community.

By Mandy Thompson Taxi driver Neil Boucher goes where a lot of other taxi drivers won’t—the potholed roads of Industry, on the East Coast of Demerara.

Shrimp drying along the Zeeburg seawall has been suspended for a week.

A recent inspection of 50 schools in Georgetown found various public health defects, according to the Mayor and City Council.

The pilot of an Air Services Limited (ASL) Britten-Norman Islander was forced to abort a take-off from the Region Nine airstrip, at Aishalton, after one of the aircraft engines caught fire yesterday.

The Ministry of Commerce is advising the public not to pay any increase in minibus fares for the various routes, saying that the price structure remains the same since the last increase in 2005.