Guyana News

Vincent Vandenburg, the man accused of fatally stabbing Edinburgh Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice labourer Junior Edwards, was arraigned on a murder charge yesterday.

The Ansa McAl beverage company yesterday presented prizes to the three persons that were judged winners of the annual Smalta Kite Flying competition.

(Barbados Nation) This month end is going to be a sad one for 500 staff members of Almond Beach Village in St Peter but, as a group, the employees and management team are expected to walk away with approximately Bds$14 million in severance and other compensation.

(Barbados Nation) Former minister of social transformation Hamilton Lashley thinks it is time to take the PetroCaribe deal being offered by Venezuela as a means of getting Barbados out of its current economic energy crisis.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police reports of rape, incest and other sexual offences have gone up by 100 per cent in 2012.

(Trinidad Express) Transport Minister Devant Maharaj has said he will not meet with REDjet executives until the regional low-fares airline receives an Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Barbados government.

(Trinidad Express) Darren Bravo has constantly had his batting style compared with that of retired batting maestro Brian Lara, who is also his cousin.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has threatened legal action against the Express over the publication of a front-page story entitled “Neighbours Flee”, which she is claiming was libellous and damaging to her character.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and other Caricom heads will be holding bilateral discussions with United States President Barack Obama tomorrow in Cartagena, Colombia.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Feisty Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez acknowledged o n Friday that radiation treatment for cancer was wearing him down, but he vowed to squash his opponents in October’s presidential election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Broadcaster Wayne Whyte, 44, and another man, 35-year-old Safari Farr both of Harbour View addresses have been charged in connection with the shooting of radio worker Jody-Ann Gray.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, one of the world’s best known couples, are engaged to marry, ending a fevered, seven-year celebrity media dance over whether they will ever say “I do.”

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Allinva Andrews, 46 years of Moraikobe, Mahaicony River, ECD.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the demise of Hilbert Mayers, 48 years of Section ‘C’, Golden Grove, ECD, whose body was found in a neighbouring yard this morning and the power company says that the death occurred as a result of electricity theft.

Police say that Vincent Vandenburg, 26 years of LFS Burnham Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was today charged with murder committed on Lord Edwards of Edinburgh Housing Scheme, EBB.

Police say that a post-mortem was today performed on the body of Dexter Marshall of Two Friends Village, ECD, by Pathologist Dr.

Three persons have been charged with the armed robbery of several persons travelling from the airport.

(Jamaica Observer) Vybz Kartel and his co-accused were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Supreme Court this morning.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Americas Summit host President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed businessmen and fellow leaders to Colombia today with a call to bury political differences and advice for the United States to turn its attention back to Latin America.

The Guyana Water Incorporated has intensified service disconnection activities on the East Coast of Demerara and says some of its customers there have not paid bills in three years.