Guyana News

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – This week, the price of a liter unleaded fuel at Suritex gas stations (Staatsolie’s retail branch) soars 20 cents to a record SRD 5.37, while super unleaded fuel sells at SRD 5.43 a liter.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0030 h.

CGX Energy Inc today announced that delays due to minor mechanical issues on the Ocean Saratoga semi-submersible rig and weather conditions have pushed back the time frame for the completion of drilling of the Eagle-1 well beyond the originally planned 60 days.

Three groups are vying to complete the Amaila Falls road and transmission line clearing project and bids opened today showed a more than $1B difference between the highest and lowest submissions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twelve hours after 26-year-old Anastacia Emmanuel was shot to death, Jamal Jack and his accomplice Joel Mayers were murdered in a swift act of reprisal.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Common interests compel Suriname and French Guiana to closer cooperation in the areas of security and law enforcement.

(Jamaica Observer) Why was 33-year-old teacher Paula Gordon brutally murdered and her body dragged and dumped in a river more than 50 metres from her house in Zion Hill, St Catherine Saturday night?

(Jamaica Observer) Four new varieties of tomatoes are to be shortly introduced on the local market to help cut back on the approximately J$8-billion worth of tomato paste imported into the country each year.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds yesterday said he never referred to the media as “vultures”.

(Trinidad Express) Little Aaliyah Johnson was sexually and physically abused before her unresponsive body was taken to the Siparia hospital on Easter Sunday.

(Barbados Nation) Many of Barbados’ highly regarded professionals, including lawyers and doctors, have been accused of grossly under-reporting their income and failing to file tax returns.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A Costa Rican kidnapped during the weekend in the latest attack on foreign diplomats in Venezuela has been freed and is in good health, the government said today.

(Barbados Nation) As The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus prepares to roll out its programmes online, principal Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has described the move as “the next frontier”.

Victims of last December’s rubber bullets shooting by police say they are still waiting on justice, even as the official probe seems to be at a standstill while the officer who ordered ranks to fire on unarmed protestors was promoted.

The Region One administration has committed to assist Tobago Hill to develop the community’s fish farm, which has been floundering almost from the start.

Lavern Cosbert says she is being prevented from leaving the country to return to her home and teen daughter in the United Kingdom, since local authorities claim she still owes the government for a nursing programme that she took in 1989.

A man remains on the run after he allegedly beat his common-law wife unconscious with a hammer at her family’s East Coast Demerara home last Wednesday.

While legendary reggae performers Beres Hammond and Glen Washington treated fans to a packed show at the National Stadium on Sunday, rapper Rick Ross, the headliner for the other half of Hits and Jams Entertainment’s Easter Fest, was a no-show yesterday.

A fire of unknown origin on Sunday night destroyed a Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara man’s home, leaving him with only the clothes on his back.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) says while Government made a step in the right direction by moving the tax threshold to $50,000 monthly or $600,000 a year as announced in the budget, it has failed to increase wages and lower income tax.