Guyana News

Sophia robbery victim Jerry Jones who was shot to his neck during a robbery on Sunday night was yesterday hooked up to a life support machine as his family remained hopeful that he will recover fully from the ordeal.

The US Embassy is introducing new fees for most non-immigrant visa applications and decreasing immigrant visa processing fees from April 13.

A 20-year-old armed robbery accused who said he is a gold miner was put on $350,000 bail yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Come next Monday the Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) will continue its activism through the teaming up with Dreamcatchers to host an empowerment session at the New York University in NYC.

Two men accused of larceny of $2.7 million which was stashed in a parked car were placed on $250,000 bail each when they appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

A man who was accused of using abusive language to his common-law wife and damaging property belonging to her was put on $20,000 bail yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

(Trinidad Express) Government’s trumpeted announcement of an oil find is a hoax “in the identical vein” to the assassination plot announced by the Prime Minister last November, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday.

NEW ORLEANS,  (Reuters) – Kentucky overcame an uncharacteristically tepid performance by freshman Anthony Davis to defeat Kansas 67-59 on Monday to win the national basketball championship for the eighth time.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago’s “best days” are still ahead. And, in order for the country to successfully move forward there must be a level of compromise, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night.

Gold miner IAMGOLD through one of its subsidiaries has acquired a number of shares in Stronghold Metals Inc with respect to the Eagle Mountain exploration concession here.

OAKLAND, Calif., (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire at a private Christian college in Oakland, California today, killing at least seven people and wounding three others before a suspect, reportedly a former student, was taken into custody, authorities said.

Telephone and other telecommunication services for thousands of customers around central Georgetown have been repeatedly disrupted over the past weeks as a result of what seems to be organized rampant vandalism, GT&T said today.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) today criticized the ruling of Chief Justice Ian Chang in the matter of the rape allegation against Police Commissioner Henry Greene and the coalition repeated its call for the government to remove Greene from office.

A Haitian woman working at a Maryland, US McDonald’s is one of three persons to win the Mega Millions US jackpot of US$656M but there is some controversy over whether her co-workers should also benefit.

Police say that at about 0530h today, ranks conducted a search on a house at Blueberry Hill, Wismar, during which 3 kgs, 152 grams of marijuana were found.

Police say that the suspect in the murder of Michael Williams of Moruca, NWD, which occurred at Kariabo Backdam, NWD, on March 29, 2012, was arrested yesterday.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concludes that the planned amendment to the Amnesty Act is an obstacle to the execution of the Moiwana ruling.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart will visit Washington this month for meetings with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and Barbadian nationals in the United States capital.

(Barbados Nation) LIAT is doing no better than REDjet and should work some of the grounded low-cost carrier’s good points into its own model, says Minister of International Business George Hutson.

(Barbados Nation) Blasting the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) as a Government in shambles “with a serious void of leadership”, Opposition Leader Owen Arthur has declared that the current administration has a moral obligation to “fix” the CLICO insurance problem.