Guyana News

The Youth Coalition for Transfor-mation (YCT) says that the administration has insulted the Guyanese people with its refusal to discipline the former Police Commissioner Henry Greene.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) raked in a surplus of $208M last year and CEO Ramesh Ghir said it is being ploughed into sustaining its operations.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has started preparatory work for the US$12.3M Linden Water Supply and Rehabilitation Programme (LWSRP), which is expected to provide water supply and quality that meet international standards.

Technicians from the coast have been rushed into Lethem to assess the condition of the two main generating sets at the power company which mal-functioned last weekend.

A man appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court accused of using threatening language towards a woman, who is the wife of a prominent attorney.

The Georgetown City Council said yesterday that Councillor Junior Garrett was elected chairman of its finance committee at Monday’s statutory meeting.

A handyman employed at Rabbie Snackette and Variety Store is nursing several chop wounds about his body, after a group of men asked attacked and chopped him early Monday morning.

Amid concerns over the stench caused by drying of shrimp along the Zeeburg seawall, acting chairman of the Tuschen Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Khusial Mangra said it is trying to address the situation.

The Ministry of Agriculture plans to establish a sugar museum, as part of its efforts to recapture and preserve the history surrounding the transformation of the sugar industry.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday placed Sherwin Ken on $100,000 bail when he pleaded not guilty to a larceny from the person charge in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

(Trinidad Express) Racial tension continues to be an issue in Trinidad and Tobago, two of the country’s business leaders have suggested.

The combined Opposition tonight voted against two allocations totalling $527 million for the Guyana Elections Commission saying that the necessary reforms must be made and if they are, APNU and the AFC would support a supplementary appropriation to get the money back.

The joint opposition last evening voted to chop proposed budgetary allocations to the Office of the President by a whopping $345.

(Trinidad Express) A historic move was made yesterday by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as she announced that legislation will be brought to the Parliament to remove the British Privy Council as this country’s final appellate court and replaced with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)—with respect to criminal matters.

The combined opposition this evening voted to cut $150M from the Office of the President’s proposed budgetary allocations for contracted employees.

ROSEAU, Dominica,  (Reuters) – In what was almost certainly his final innings in the Caribbean, Ricky Ponting provided a crucial half-century as Australia built a lead of 310 runs by the close of the third day of the final test against West Indies.

Following a gruelling session that saw Minister in the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill facing a barrage of questions the opposition banded together and excised the budget allocations for state TV, NCN and GINA in a historic move in Parliament today.

(Barbados Nation) Class is permanent, form is temporary! It is really downright disgraceful the way the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the selectors have treated former captain Ramnaresh Sarwan.

(Trinidad Express) The unemployment rate in Trinidad and Tobago has fallen.

(Trinidad Express) Shouts of jubilation echoed through the streets of the capital city yesterday morning as TV6’s Crime Watch host, Ian Alleyne, led a group of supporters from the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court to Express House after being granted bail on four charges.