CARACAS, (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government today broadcast a video of President Hugo Chavez playing the European bowling game of bocce in Cuba in a new effort to quash rumors that he was dying of cancer while out of the country.
KOLKATA, India – Left-handed West Indies stroke-maker Darren Bravo may take no part in the lucrative Indian Premier League when the current Australia series ends in the Caribbean.
Signalling a further closing of ranks, APNU and the AFC today said that they will resist the passage of the 2012 budget unless significant changes are made and they called for the lowering of VAT, the Berbice bridge toll, a hike in salaries for public servants and the revamping of government’s holding company, NICIL, among a range of other demands.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chinese construction firm, China Jiangsu International, has secured a half-a-billion dollar contract for the construction of the University of the West Indies (UWI) South Campus in Penal/Debe.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Describing delays in the country’s court system as chronic, the leaders of the Jamaican Bar Association say abolishing preliminary enquiries could be one cure to the malady.
The PPP/C yesterday called on all “patriotic Guyanese” to reject “purveyors of division” and to support attempts being made to attain political consensus along political lines.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Brian Pengelley, the president of the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association (JMA), is warning that walking away from membership in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would not solve the vexing issue of trade imbalance.
(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Legislators Thijs Berman of the European Parliament (EP) and Kathleen Ferrier of the Dutch Lower House are disappointed over the European Union’s (EU) decision not to impose sanctions on Suriname for adopting the Amnesty Act.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday charged that he was in danger of bankruptcy as Attorney General Anand Ramlogan was making select lawyers millionaires to wage legal battle against him (Rowley) as he conducts his public duty.
(Trinidad Express) A clear motive has not yet been established for the shooting deaths of a couple who were asleep at their Thomasine Street, Laventille home, early yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Following are the nine charges brought against Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) Ltd by ASP Ajith Persad of the Port of Spain Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over the airing of a rape video on the Crime Watch programme for which host Ian Alleyne has also been charged.
APNU and AFC are proposing to effect budget cuts that could total as much as $20 billion, in a move that has stunned the government while easing tension hanging over opposition cooperation over the past four days.
APNU leader David Granger and AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan will approach proposed cuts to the 2012 budget on common ground today as the two parties attempt to cast aside public perception of a rift, following recent closed-door meetings between APNU and the government.
Ninety-four foreign miners – many of them Brazilians – were snared in a recent crackdown by the government against illegal mining which apparently led to a high-level delegation from Brazil’s state of Roraima seeking clarifications from Georgetown.
Vryheid Village, West Canje, Berbice resident Angela Hooper is living in terror after recent death threats by her common-law husband, who is free despite a recent conviction for armed robbery.
The Guyana Police Force said senior officers had expressed concern at a management team meeting last Wednesday about statements made by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee at a recent Community Policing Workshop, but that the matter has now been resolved.
The Ministry of Health is now relying on University of Guyana personnel to assist with geotechnical information for the Turkeyen site where the specialty hospital is to be built.
Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsarran says the current overcrowding and improving the overall conditions at the Georgetown School of Nursing (GSN) will be resolved with “staggering of classes”, but his ministry is being met with “organization resistance”.