Guyana News

Armed robberies have increased by 34% for the period of January 1 to February 29 compared to that of last year, according to police.

Four men were yesterday charged with break and enter, and larceny.

A minibus conductor was stabbed to his abdomen during an altercation with a tout in the vicinity of Stabroek Market on Thursday.

The suspect in the Phagwah Day fatal stabbing of Abdool Waheed Gani remained in police custody up to late yesterday afternoon as investigators were tying up loose ends in the case.

A post-mortem examination performed on three-year-old Carlyle Nashmoe revealed that the lad died from a fractured neck.

Human rights activist Karen de Souza was nominated by the US embassy here for this year’s International Women of Courage Award.

Since the Rotary Club of Stabroek committed its support to the Buxton Youth Developers (BYD) literacy project in March 2007, the initiative which began with 50 students has grown both in numbers and capacity and now caters for over 300 students.

Bryan Singh was yesterday put on bail in the sum of $30,000, after denying three charges related to threats at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert M. Persaud and staff of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) are mourning the passing of former Commissioner Brian Lance Sucre.

The story, “Four jailed for four years over abduction,” in the Thursday March 8, 2012 edition, misidentified the defendant that was jailed in absentia.

(Trinidad Express) The ongoing strike at Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) is threatening the viability of the country’s construction industry, with several projects on hold as a result of the shortage of cement products.

(Trinidad Express) Some TT$3.1 million was spent for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and an official approved Cabinet delegation, which included her travel assistant—who is her sister, Vidwatie Newton, to travel to India in January.

Caricom Heads meeting in Suriname have expressed concern over the severe impact on fellow member Grenada as a result of legal measure taken by the EXIM Bank of Taiwan to recover US$28M in loans.

Amid months of turmoil in West Indies cricket particularly in relation to the administration of the game in Guyana and the shutting out of Jamaican batsman Chris Gayle, Caricom heads have agreed to seek an urgent meeting between the prime ministerial subcommittee on cricket and the WICB.

In the wake of a damning report warning that the community could be brought to its knees and disintegration, Caricom leaders meeting in Paramaribo, Suriname have agreed that the restructuring of the Secretariat will begin with the hiring of a change facilitator.

PNCR member Aubrey Norton says party leader Robert Corbin did not adequately address several issues he raised at last Saturday’s General Council including the alleged forging by a party executive of a document for a district election over a year ago.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – A female flight attendant who started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane today was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate, passengers said.

The Guyana Energy Agency says Rudolph Ferreira of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo on March 2, 2012 pleaded guilty to the offence of Transporting Petroleum in Bulk Quantity without a Licence, contrary to the Petroleum and Petroleum Products Regulations 2004 enacted under the Guyana Energy Agency Act 1997.

(Barbados Nation) The transfer of the final and largest part of British American Insurance Company’s (BAICO) Barbados business to another entity is to begin soon, with the entire process completed by yearend.

The Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert M. Persaud and staff of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission are mourning the passing of a former Commissioner,  Brian Lance Sucre who died at the age of 64.