Guyana News

Eight-year-old Andrika Koker is still a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital, Paediatric Ward recovering well, according to her father Lamos Edghill.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he had information about a plot to assassinate opposition rival Henrique Capriles, who hopes to block his bid for re-election in October.

(Trinidad Express) The Government-issued credit card of Tobago Development Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin has been cancelled.

(Trinidad Express) It was an interesting contest that did not deserve such a premature end.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The return of Jamaican batsman Chris Gayle to the West Indies team has been delayed, as the former captain is yet to sign a deal agreed on by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and CARICOM at a meeting in St Vincent today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An arrest warrant has been issued and a ‘Red Notice‘ authorised by Interpol for the arrest of Michael Eugene Misick, the former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, says a spokesman for the governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

In the wake of the controversy over the $90M set aside for the police force during the elections, the PNCR has formally called for the Auditor General to mount a probe of the matter.

The IDB and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide up to US$600mn in financing for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Guyana and other Central America and the Caribbean over the next five years, the bank said in a statement.

In a sign of the changing times, Order Papers for the 10th Parliament are now being delivered to the media electronically in addition to the regular delivery.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trade and Industry Minister Stephen Cadiz says T&T will be moving from the traditional markets of Caricom to a market of 70 million people in South and Central America.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of Health is working feverishly to make a submission to Cabinet to receive approval for the passing of the Tobacco bill, designed to implement a ban on smoking in public places, including work places.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The man tasked with the responsibility of curbing the country’s crime rate has equated the weekly bloodletting across the nation to that of a 9/11 crisis.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Estranged batsman Chris Gayle could make a return to the West Indies team if everything goes according to plan during a scheduled meeting between himself and officials of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and CARICOM today.

(Trinidad Express) Perhaps the only interest which the population has in the UNC internal elections is whether Works Minister Jack Warner would emerge victorious in the four-man race for the chairmanship.

(Trinidad Express) A man who left Laventille two years ago because of rising gang violence, was shot dead yesterday after returning to the area to visit his grandparents.

Projects in Guyana have faced problems because of the poor services rendered by engineers, according to geotechnical engineer and groundwater hydrologist Charles Ceres.

A father of four died on the spot yesterday after he was pushed off the Strathavon Pavilion, Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara by another man and sustained what appeared to be a broken neck.

The AFC is working on legislation that will amend several bills passed in the last parliament including that former president’s benefits Bill and the Broadcasting Bill but will require the support of one of the other parties for the amendments to be approved.

Two miners were yesterday taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital after being chopped by a third man during a confrontation over money at Tamakay Backdam, Region Seven.

Two persons were in custody at the Brickdam Police Station yesterday in relation to the murder of businessman Leonard Mahadeo on Friday night.