Guyana News

Regional Chairman of Region Five, Bindrabhan Bisnauth has assured that government will provide excavators to commence empoldering in the Abary Creek because the water has now started to recede rapidly.

Developing a five-year strategy to deliver on Caricom’s priorities and to be agreed on before mid-year will be among proposals to be considered by Heads of Government, when they begin a two-day Inter-Sessional Meeting in Suriname today.

Sixty-one-year-old Lucille Posey has never owned a house but the Atlanta, USA grandmother would soon know what it feels like to be a home owner when she moves into her spanking new three-bedroom quarters, compliments of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity.

Former First Lady Varshnie Singh was yesterday morning robbed of valuables by men armed with a knife and a cutlass as she was overseeing work at a construction site on D’Urban Street, Wortmanville.

Local singer Jessica Xavier on Tuesday appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving and was released on self bail.

Dear Editor, Sports enthusiasts and civil society with access to DirecTV from March 9-12 will be in for a treat when some of the world’s elite athletes and challengers take to centre stage at the World Indoors Championship in Istanbul, Turkey.

The management and staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) is extending felicitations to its Assistant Director of Nursing Services Noshella Lalckecharan, who is one of several women who will be honoured for International Women’s Day.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has anti-corruption legislation on par with the US and the UK, but appears to have a lack of will to enact it, giving a corruption perception index significantly higher than these other countries, Ernst and Young fraud expert Arnold Niranjan has said.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs is now being threatened with legal action should he fail to rescind, within 14 days, the contract he gave to Trinidad and Tobago Air Support Services (TTAS) for the provision of light aircraft services.

(Trinidad Express) The United States Embassy has been conducting queries into a former employee who is a director of the Trinidad and Tobago Air Support Company (TTAS), the company with which Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs signed a TT$900,772 lease for light aircraft services.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The killing of 21 people by Jamaican police in just six days must be subject to a thorough inquiry, Amnesty International said as it called for the authorities to mount an effective investigation into recent and past police operations.

SAN PEDRO, Belize, (Reuters) – Belize’s centrist government seeks a second term today in elections which could seriously affect scope for borrowing in the tiny Central American nation, best known for its pristine beaches and the world’s second-longest coral reef.

(Barbados Nation) A clash of dates is likely to force key West Indies players to miss part of the upcoming Test series against Australia and a subsequent tour of England.

At about 2000h yesterday, police said that student Isha Jones, 19 years of Fifth Street, Campbellville, was held up by two men armed with knives at Church Road, Subryanville, Georgetown, who took away $5,000 and a computer bag and escaped.

Former first lady Varshnie Singh was this morning robbed of valuables by men armed with a knife and a cutlass as she was overseeing work at a construction site on D’Urban Street.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has filed a notice of motion in the Supreme Court of Judicature seeking to have the recent composition of Parliament’s Committee of Selection declared null and void.

The Guyana Government has condemned the West Indies Cricket Board for the manner in which it responded to Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and called on it to apologise to her.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights (IJCHR) has called for a “survey” to determine the status of the “thousands” of police killings that have been investigated by the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI).

(Jamaica Gleaner) At least 150 Caribbean Airlines employees are to be sent home as of April 30, 45 in Montego Bay, St James and more than 100 in Kingston.

(Barbados Nation) A Government minister yesterday promised his administration would eventually end the use of pit toilets across Barbados.