Guyana News

The Landell Mills review of the Caricom Secretariat and the strategic direction of the 15-member community are expected to be among the priorities when Heads of Government meet in Suriname this week for their 23rd Inter-Sessional Conference.

APNU’s Leader of the Opposition, David Granger, in his presentation last Saturday to the PNCR’s first General Council for this year highlighted as an imperative the reforming of the PNCR, the NCW (National Congress of Women – the women’s arm of the party,  and the GYSM (Guyana Youth and Student Movement – the party’s youth arm) in order to ensure that they get in tune with the times.

Acting Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell has noted the challenge posed to the police force by crime in the sprawling mining areas and said a number of measures have been taken including setting up roving patrols.

Thirty persons graduated from the first Information Training Course at the Buxton/Friendship Practical Instruction Centre and Finance minister Dr Ashni Singh encouraged them to empower others by sharing their knowledge with them.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud lauded Guyana’s partnership with Canada in the mining sector and invited investors to consider Guyana, at the first Guyana Day event at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) held in Toronto over the weekend.

Hope was fading yesterday as search efforts continued without success to locate the two missing occupants of the MV Crissan–V, which sank off the Waini Coast in the North West District (NWD) last week.

The body of a man was yesterday afternoon discovered in a canal in the vicinity of the Russian Embassy, in Georgetown.

Paul Lewis was yesterday placed on $30,000 bail after being charged with stealing a cell phone.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha says Holika Dahan will take place today countrywide, as it starts activities to celebrate Phagwah 2012.

(Trinidad Express) A Housing Development Corporation (HDC) employee, who was part of a crew that went to do repairs at a St Paul Street, East Dry River, Port of Spain apartment, was ambushed and shot dead yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) One of three police officers assigned to the Morvant Police Station, who are before a disciplinary tribunal on charges of neglect of duty, has pleaded guilty.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter sought to defuse a war of words between FIFA and Brazil today by personally apologising for disparaging remarks made by a top official about the country’s slow progress in preparing for the 2014 World Cup.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World.

(WICB) As a result of the situation in Guyana there has been speculation regarding the Barbados v Guyana Regional 4 Day match scheduled to start on Friday March 9th at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Selection Panel today announced the West Indies squad for the first three Digicel One-Day Internationals against Australia to be played on March 16, 18 and 20 at the Arnos Vale Cricket Ground in St.

Police say that at about 2220h last night, Sherwin Fileen,19 years of De Kenderen, WCD, was walking along the Georgetown Seawalls with a friend, when they were confronted by a man during which he was shot and injured to his right hand.

Amid questions about how $90M allocated to the police during the last general elections was spent, the force today issued a statement saying it could account for the entire amount.

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Allen Stanford was convicted today of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, a verdict that caps a riches-to-rags trajectory for the former Texas financier and Caribbean playboy.

APNU’s Leader of the Opposition, David Granger, in his presentation last Saturday to the PNCR’s first General Council for this year highlighted as an imperative the reforming of the PNCR, the NCW (National Congress of Women – the women’s arm of the party,  and the GYSM (Guyana Youth and Student Movement – the party’s youth arm) in order to ensure that they get in tune with the times.

The Operational Head of the One Laptop Per Family project  Sesh Sukhdeo has resigned, the programme confirmed today.