Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is describing as “inaccurate” statements made in Parliament, during the debate on the motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister, and subsequently reported in the media, about Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs.

This newspaper trusts that the statement from Mr Lester Bird regarding the current state of West Indies cricket will not be ignored by West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President Dr Julian Hunte and others in his executive.

(Jamaica Gleaner) On the back of record remittances in 2011 that narrowly edged out pre-recession highs, companies in the money services sector say they are expecting the pace of inflows to improve even further this year and are edging their bets through network expansion and new partnerships.

“I didn’t feel frighten but I been jus swimming all the time and hoping for reach the green bush”, the words of Deochand Massidas who survived Wednesday’s boat mishap along the Waini Coast in the North West District(NWD).

Nearly three years after an acrimonious labour dispute erupted between Russian bauxite company, Rusal and the union representing its workers, Minister of Labour, Dr.

The government ought not to be disturbed by a budget that is determined by opposition votes in the National Assembly as it will be those parties that will have to answer to the electorate if the budget fails to deliver, former Speaker of the House, Ralph Ramkarran says.

A driver of a car is in critical condition after a collision at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara around 7:30pm yesterday.

Fifty families now own their own homes through an $80 million project in the Adventist village, Hosanna, in the Mashabo Settlement on the Essequibo River compliments of Food for the Poor (FFTP) and the Stoner family of the USA.

The methodology used by the late President Dr. Cheddi Jagan on national issues is more relevant than obsolete to many of the challenges facing Guyana  today, according to President Donald Ramotar.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman says that his continued holding of the position of the AFC’s List Representative is a “non-issue.”

A 12-year-old boy narrowly escaped death on Saturday when a lantern post fell in his path after a canter crashed into it and subsequently spun out of control, pitching the child into a nearby trench before hitting a second lantern post and coming to a halt.

Following a brouhaha over the cancellation of a meeting of the Committee of Selection last Friday, the Committee will now meet on Wednesday for the political parties to identify their nominees to sit on the various parliamentary committees.

With a reported 5,900 people living with HIV/AIDS, a seminar involving several agencies on Friday homed in on the link between the disease and gender-based violence.

Minister within the Ministry of Local Government Norman Whittaker on Thursday engaged residents and council members of the Crabwood Creek and Number 52-Number 74, Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) and heard complaints about roads.

Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn has thanked all commuters of the Demerara Harbour Bridge for their patience while the bridge was closed to vehicular traffic for an extended period yesterday.

Women’s contribution to the county of Berbice was praised on Friday when the Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA) held its annual observance for International Women’s Day and women were urged to keep fighting for equal rights since this battle was far from over.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Ganga Persaud has said that Neighbhourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) have an extremely useful role in Guyana’s continued development, but while some NDCs have been fulfilling this role, others have not been so successful.

(Trinidad Express) The Government has a multi-million-dollar headache it is trying to get rid of—the MV Su.

(Barbados Nation) Police recorded their fourth murder of the year after an 18-year-old St Michael teenager died on the spot after he was stabbed in the chest early this morning.

(Barbados Nation) The man who got killed in a vehicular accident while allegedly fleeing from an armed robbery last night has been identified.