Guyana News

Upset over being remanded to prison, a man accused of assault yesterday inflicted severe injuries to himself at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Two months after he was freed from jail after having served ten years for murder, Mohamed Ali was fined $70,000 by Magistrate Judy Latchman after he pleaded guilty to two charges on Thursday.

Outar Haripersaud yesterday received a seven-day sentence after admitting that he threatened to kill his common-law wife.

An elderly man was yesterday fined $3,000 and sentenced to do two weeks community service after he pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis.

Silver Hill, Linden Highway resident Merle Jordan was found dead with injuries to his head at Dalgin, Linden Highway early yesterday morning.

(Barbados Nation) One of this island’s older hotel properties has fallen into the hands of receivers KPMG.

(Trinidad Express) The United Policyholders Group has been granted leave to apply for judicial review of Government’s decision not to pay them the full sum of money due on their CLICO Executive Flexible Premium Annuities (EFPA).

(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines has closed a Kingston, Jamaica, subsidiary company which employed 75 pilots operating Air Jamaica aircraft out of that country.

(Trinidad Express) CCN TV6’s Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne was yesterday slapped with four charges, three under the Sexual Offences Act and one of resisting arrest.

Embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday offered to retire and it has been accepted by President Donald Ramotar, a statement released by GINA said this evening.

The Guyana Defence Force today airlifted injured Mark Gonzales from Kuribrong, Cuyuni/Mazaruni to Georgetown.

At about 1930h. last night, police say that Zhang Man Bang, 37 years, was in his restaurant at Anna Catherina, WCD, when three men entered, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Merle Jordan, 36 years of Silver Hill, Linden Highway, whose body was found with injuries to his head at about 0430h today at Dalgin, Linden Highway.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani airliner with up to 131 people on board crashed in bad weather as it came in to land in Islamabad on Friday, scattering wreckage and leaving no sign of survivors.

(Trinidad Express) Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget yesterday signed off on another nine per cent wage settlement, this time with the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC).

Amid strong criticism of it over an apparent budget deal with the government, APNU today issued a statement calling on the government to implement a series of relief measures for the mining town of Linden before raising electricity tariffs.

(Trinidad Express) A scuffle broke out on the compound of Express House in Port of Spain last night as police officers of the Port of Spain CID attempted to arrest TV6’s Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne.

(Jamaica Observer) One of Jamaica’s leading political scientists based in the United States has virtually written off the potential of a third party emerging and winning the hearts of the electorate in future elections.

(Jamaica Observer) Eighteen-year-old Amelia Pitterson had only just made the down payment on a plot of land as a step closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of relocating her mother from the Train Line squatter settlement in Gregory Park, St Catherine to a proper home of their own.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica dipped one spot to rank 74th overall in The Global Information Technology Report (GITP) 2012 published this month, but tied with 57 other countries to take the number one spot in the telecoms competition subcategory.