Guyana News

(Jamaica Observer) President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Sir Dennis Byron says he welcomes the move towards unanimity between Jamaica’s main political parties on accepting the regional institution as its final appellate court.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Mobile operator Digicel Jamaica says that about 120 of its local staff or 10 per cent of its workforce could to take-up its ‘voluntary separation programme’ announced Thursday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Absolutely nothing could dampen the spirits of 12-year-old Shemar Pringle.

Former Commissioner of Police and now APNU MP Winston Felix yesterday accused the PPP/C government of hiring drug lord Roger Khan to help it fight crime and he fingered Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee in interference in police matters, including attempting to prevent an arrest.

Nigel Hughes, attorney for the woman who accused Police Commissioner Henry Greene of rape, says he will be writing the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for statements that were gathered during the investigation in order to pursue private criminal prosecution.

Golden Grove resident Hilbert ‘Brights’ Mayers was electrocuted yesterday morning while apparently trying to remove an illegal connection that he had set up to steal power from a nearby school for the differently-abled.

Former parliamentarian Nellie Charles, 78, was one of several persons who were rescued from a William Street, Kitty house which yesterday afternoon razed by a fire started by children playing with matches.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday apologised for the actions of “inexperienced” Coast Guard ranks who spotted the body of 11-year-old West Ruimveldt drowning victim Shamar Success on Wednesday but failed to aid in its recovery.

Three men were yesterday charged with multiple counts of armed robbery stemming from recent attacks on Guyanese returning from overseas.

APNU member and new parliamentarian Ronald Bulkan has signalled that the national budget will have to undergo serious cuts to eliminate spending.

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Deborah Backer of APNU has called on government to strengthen the Guyana Defence Force to better defend the country’s territorial integrity, saying Guyana might have already become an oil producing nation if this had been done.

The justice system remains “broken” despite the $4 billion spent in the IDB-funded four-year Justice Sector Reform Strategy Programme and this is “a clear case of no value for money spent,” attorney Basil Williams said as the debate on 2012 budget continued in the National Assembly yesterday.

Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran has welcomed recent statements by APNU MP Dr George Norton on permitting abortions at public facilities like the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), saying that the issue could be further examined.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has a new executive at the helm and high on its agenda is to lobby the government to overhaul the current tax regime for businesses.

Police yesterday said that the man that was operating the merry-go-round that 13-year-old Dexter Marshall, of Two Friends Village, East Coast Demerara, was riding when he was electrocuted has been arrested.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday disclosed that some of its customers on the East Coast of Demerara have not paid bills in three years, as it announced intensified service disconnection activities there.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman reminded Members of Parliament that while it is anticipated that the 2012 budget debates would be “lively and fiery,” they should be respectful and tolerant of each other during the process.

Two staffers of the Parliament Office will spend two weeks in the United Kingdom undergoing training in parliamentary democracy, under the joint sponsorship of the British Government and the Government of Guyana, Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman announced on Thursday.

The High Court hearing on the composition of the National Assembly’s Com-mittee of Selection was yesterday adjourned due to the absence of Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who said that he had to prepare for his presentation in the National Assembly later in the day.

The body of a missing Moraikobe, Mahaicony River resident was found yesterday morning, police reported.