Guyana News

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs has presented a $4.2M double-cab Hilux pick-up acquired through a Presidential Grant to Wallaba, Region One.

Construction on a $200M pump station at Greenfield and other drainage works at Bee Hive are almost complete, Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Alli Baksh said after an inspection exercise on Saturday.

Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Alli Baksh advised East Bank Essequibo cash crop farmers to form themselves into legally registered groups in order to access help from NGOs and other agencies to resolve issues affecting crop production.

When the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the death of Neesa Gopaul  continued yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, the cross-examination of Simone De Nobrega took most of the day and is likely

The Culture Ministry is seeking the public’s help to select the site for the monument to commemorate the 1823 slave rebellion.

President Donald Ramotar and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera discussed ways of further strengthening relations between the two countries, when they met on Friday at the Royal Torarica

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New Yorkers strongly support controversial police anti-terrorism surveillance that includes sending undercover officers into mosques even as questions have been raised about its constitutionality.

(Trinidad Express) A woman’s needs are different to a man’s, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night as she sought to make a case for the payment of a per diem to her sister, Vidwatie Newton.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee in a letter to the newspapers today has warned against police officers speaking in contravention of the force’s standing orders.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An opposition legislator in St. Vincent is calling for new regulations after a Jamaican artiste refused to perform in the country last weekend because the show organiser was unable to meet his contractual obligations to the singer.

(Barbados Nation) Runako Morton played his final innings today. Family, friends and fans turned out in their numbers yesterday to pay tribute to the fallen former West Indies cricketer at a funeral service at the First Church of the Open Bible in San Fernando, Trinidad.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Defense attorney Robert Simels was disbarred in New York today by an appeals court, more than two years after he was convicted of intimidating potential witnesses in his client’s trial.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack earlier today submitted her written response to applications made by lawyers representing Police Commissioner Henry Greene to block a rape charge she recommended, from being instituted against him.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) has dismissed a Sunday Times report that it will investigate a 2011 World Cup semi-final for match-fixing while a Bollywood actress said she would sue the newspaper for using what she said was her picture with the story.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg quit today as chairman of the world’s largest aluminium producer, UC RUSAL, saying the heavily indebted company was in deep crisis after a long battle with rival oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Nehru suit worn by Senior Counsel Israel Khan in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court in 2005 was befitting for the dignity of the magistrates’ court.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs has retained the services of attorney Dana Seetahal, SC, as questions have surfaced about the fairness of the methods and criteria the Police Service Commission (PSC) used to appraise his performance.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Two U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy after being convicted in a Pakistani military trial in Haiti, authorities said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a former editor and close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was arrested for a second time today in a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British establishment and embarrassed Prime Minister David Cameron.

The Public Relations Office of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation says that at around 9.40 this morning, one of the hospital’s staff was carrying out welding works on the Middle Street gate, during which a small fire started but which was quickly put out.