A man from Canvas City, Wismar, was on Tuesday sentenced to prison on two counts of break and enter and larceny and indecent assault when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.
Twenty-four students graduated with certificates in electrical and mechanical engineering, when the Machinery Corporation of Guyana Limited (MACORP) held its annual graduation on Friday.
The acting Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Irfaan Ali has highlighted the need to regularize and standardize the tourism industry in order to protect the nature of community-based tourism and strengthen the product to give it access to larger markets.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police have charged 31-year-old sports coach, Tahir Dudley, with buggery while 48-year-old teacher, Lervan Jones, has been charged with another sexual offence.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Australia and West Indies shared the honours on a slow opening day in the second test at Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad today.
Police say that at about 1700h yesterday businessman Khemchand, 72 years, and his wife Lakrajie Khemchand, were in their business place at Anna Catherina, WCD, when they were attacked and robbed by a woman and two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.
CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Unprecedented Latin American opposition to U.S. sanctions on communist Cuba left President Barack Obama isolated at the Summit of the Americas today and illustrated Washington’s waning influence in the region.
(Trinidad Guardian) Legspinner Devendra Bishoo walked away with the trophies for International and Test “Cricketer of the Year” while allrounder Stafanie Taylor was named Women’s Cricketer of the Year at the West Indies Players’ Association/First Citizens award ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain, on Friday night.
CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – U.S. Secret Service agents and soldiers tasked with protecting President Barack Obama at a summit in Colombia have instead embarrassed the United States by cavorting with prostitutes.
(Jamaica Observer) The Government yesterday sacked one of its special assistants and opened a probe into the role of the secretary/manager of the St James Parish Council in the flag fiasco, as public anger grew over what many have described as a desecration of one of Jamaica’s national symbols at a civic ceremony.
BANNU, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Dozens of Islamist militants stormed a prison in Pakistan in the dead of night early today and freed nearly 400 inmates, including one on death row for trying to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf, police officials said.
(Barbados Nation) Former Chief Justice Sir David Simmons is promising to reveal “shocking” details of the Government’s refusal to extend his tenure as the island’s top judicial officer two years ago.
(Barbados Nation) REDjet officials have approached Guyana for financial assistance and are reportedly also in discussion with foreign investors in an effort to get the grounded airline back in the air.
(Trinidad Express) Indra Gangabissoon —the elderly woman who was brutally beaten by thieves three days ago—died at the Port of Spain General Hospital yesterday.
KABUL, (Reuters) – Gunmen launched multiple attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul today, assaulting Western embassies in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic area and at the parliament in the west, witnesses and officials said.
The investigating team comprising ranks from the Guyana Police Force and the Jamaican Constabulary Force (JCF) found that Police Commissioner Henry Greene was “highly unprofessional” in his involvement with the woman who has accused him of rape, saying that his behaviour invoked constitutional grounds for removal from office.