Guyana News

The quiet village of Letter Kenny, about seventeen miles from New Amsterdam on the Corentyne coast, has attracted attention because of its swirl-shaped coconut tree which many think is quite phenomenal.

The ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has decided to ignore comments made by the daughter of the party’s founder members in which she urged the party to get back to being a “non-corruptible” party if it sincerely wanted to have Cheddi and Janet Jagan as its living guides as its leaders have proclaimed.

The parliamentary opposition will soon be approaching the Donald Ramotar administration on reducing the 16% Value Added Tax (VAT), saying that while the government may lose revenue, the tax burden on citizens must be lifted.

Commissioner Henry Greene should offer an apology to the nation and resign from his post, according to Alliance For Change (AFC) member Cathy Hughes who joined her voice to those of a number of organisations and individuals calling for the top cop to go.

Although police have identified a suspect in the murder of Craig resident Sita Reddy, who was found with her throat slashed in her home almost three months ago, there is not enough information to arrest him, investigators have told her family.

A suspected police chase ended in a car slamming into two utility poles at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara on Friday night causing a blackout in the area.

The body of 64-year old Claudette Seymour of Lamaha Springs was found floating in a canal, in Lamaha Springs yesterday after she had been missing for a brief period.

The Attorney General’s Chambers of the Ministry of Legal Affairs on Thursday received a quantity of legal texts valued at more than £2 million from the Guyana United Kingdom Law Association, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

The University of Guyana is claiming that they have overpaid Freddie Kissoon following the termination of his contract and is now asking that he repays more than $77,000.

Guyana is hoping to cash in on a variety of opportunities at the 13th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development which begins here today.

A man is in police custody after he was reportedly captured on a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera committing an armed robbery on Regent Street.

The Roraima Group of Companies’ Wedding Expo 2012 opened on Friday and was hailed as an opportunity for big businesses to assist in the growth of small start-ups.

Guyana’s tourism industry is like a newborn babe compared to those of her Caribbean counterparts.

Forced on the defensive over the detaining of Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan at a US airport twice, Washington has asserted it was not a case of racial profiling or a pattern, according to Gulf News.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Haiti’s foreign minister Laurent Lamothe said he could be fully approved as the country’s new prime minister within 30 days, potentially ending a political stalemate that has threatened to limit reconstruction after the 2010 earthquake.

CARTAGENA, Colombia,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama tried today to convince skeptical Latin Americans that Washington has not turned its back on them, but ruled out a drug policy U-turn that some in the region want.

At about 1000h today, police said that Stanley Persaud, 37 years of Soesdyke, EBD, was walking along Regent Street, Georgetown, when he was attacked by a man armed with a knife and who took away his gold band valued at $260,000and escaped on a bicycle.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez will not attend this weekend’s regional summit in Colombia and will instead fly straight to Cuba to continue being treated for cancer, his foreign minister said today.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama stressed today the “great promise” for business growth in the Americas, seeking to play up the economic heft of the region he has paid little attention to in his first three years in office.