Guyana News

Recently-elected Region 8 Chairman Mark Crawford has big plans for the region, which he hopes to transform from an underdeveloped mining zone to a self-sufficient township by the end of his tenure.

Former president of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, could be  playing the role of roving ambassador for the world’s rainforest countries in the preparations for the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in June this year.

Citizens have not been getting enough disclosure from authorities on oil exploration activities here, according to the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT).

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Friday handed over a fleet of vehicles to the Guyana Police Force including several All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), which are to be dispatched to interior locations.

Relatives of Nalini Bhoge continue to hope that her killer(s) will be found but police investigators say that there is just no evidence to implicate anyone even though they have their suspicions about who planned the brutal crime and a possible motive.

Citizens have not been getting enough disclosure from authorities on oil exploration activities here, according to the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT).

The Non Profit Organization Hope Guyana  is urgently trying contact a  mother of 11 named Gaitree (only name given) to hand over a house promised to her for some time by the agency.

(Trinidad Express) Foreign Affairs Minister Surujrattan Rambachan said yesterday former prime minister Patrick Manning spent TT$127,000 to lease a private jet to attend a Caricom Youth Summit in January 2010 and TT$124,740 to lease an aircraft for a one-day Caricom meeting.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday she was never blackmailed by anyone, including former director of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) Reshmi Ramnarine, now called Shashi Rehka.

DUESSELDORF, Germany, (Reuters) – Vladimir Klitschko knocked out Jean-Marc Mormeck of France with a stinging left-right combination in the fourth round to retain his world heavyweight titles at the Esprit Arena today.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil ruled out any further dealing with FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke on Saturday after he said the country needed a “kick up the backside” to be ready in time to host the 2014 World Cup.

(Jamaica Observer) Sixty women, believed to be prostitutes, were among 180 persons who were taken into custody by members of a joint police/military team at Port Henderson Road in Portmore, St Catherine this morning.

One person from the Moruca River boat sinking tragedy was found alive today and a search and rescue team has been deployed to Tiger Beach, an area off of the Pomeroon, because of reports of a sighting there.

INDIANAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – The latest in a series of powerful tornadoes raked across a broad swath of the U.S.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Benzdorp Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Suriname NV (BOMS), holder of a 139,000 hectare gold concession in the Lawa area has new owners.

(Jamaica Observer) The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) — the body responsible for probing police shootings — was kept busy yesterday in the aftermath of 10 police killings in the parishes of St Catherine, Clarendon and St James between Thursday night and yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The newly appointed chief executive officer of Cricket Holdings America Keith Wyness believes the organisation’s foundations will help turn the dream of bringing world-class cricket to the United States of America (USA) into a reality.

(Barbados Nation) It is still early days, but the Chinese are trying to fund a multi-purpose sugar factory in Barbados.

By Lakhram Bhagirat and Alva Solomon Four men are still missing after a coastal cargo ship MV Crissan-V sank late Wednesday night in the vicinity of Moruca River mouth, and authorities indicated that a 16-hour delay before they were alerted of the incident affected the response.

China and Guyana yesterday signed two agreements that would see the former providing more than US$7.2 million ($1.4 billion) in grant aid to further technical and economic cooperation and provide fire fighting equipment.