Guyana News

The Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) has served notice that the bridge will be closed on Sunday, March 4 for  six hours commencing at 05:30 hrs to accommodate urgent repairs.

A Route 43 (Linden – Georgetown) minibus carrying 14 passengers drove off a main road at Mackenzie into a creek, after it was allegedly hit by another bus on Wednesday night.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is encouraging the nation to capitalise on the opportunity to learn to swim as a Japanese coach has been hired to train persons at the National Aquatic Centre and the Colgrain pool.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne in Washington DC Caribbean countries do not have the capacity to deal with the organised crime “that has crept into their societies…,” Organisation of American States (OAS) official Yasmin Solitahe Odlum, has said.

thief was yesterday captured by police after breaking into a Diamond, East Bank Demerara home.

Seventeen-year-old Samuel Cornelius who is accused of murdering Anfernee Bowman on Monday was remanded to prison today by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell  after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua — The 17 WICB contracted players along with 13 other players who are under consideration for selection for the One-Day Internationals and T20 Internationals of the Digicel Series 2012 – West Indies v Australia – will participate in a two week training camp in Barbados from March 1st to 12th.

Caribbean countries do not have the capacity to deal with the organised crime “that has crept into their societies…,” Organisation of American States (OAS) official Yasmin Solitahe Odlum, has said.

(Jamaica Observer) Administrators at the Calabar High School at Red Hills Road in St Andrew were forced to close down operations yesterday due to a serious rat infestation problem.

(Barbados Nation) The blame for the CLICO collapse should fall squarely at the feet of its parent company CL Financial (CLF) in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Former batting sensation Brian Lara is among several cricket legends expected here next week for Sir Vivian Richards’s 60th birthday celebrations.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has slammed the People’s Partnership administration for doing all in its power, including misusing taxpayer dollars and the country’s Coat of Arms for political advertisements, to deflect attention from a motion that has been described as “frivolous and vexatious”.

(Trinidad Express) The first-ever commercially viable onion crop in Trinidad and Tobago was harvested yesterday at the Tucker Valley Farm, Chaguaramas, in a pilot project run by the Ministry of Food Production and local company Caribbean Chemicals Ltd.

(Reuters) – New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder and paceman Doug Bracewell have been handed one-match bans for going out drinking while recovering from injury and being goaded into a verbal slanging match with a patron at a local pub.

(Trinidad Express) Plans are under way to install cable television at the multi-million-dollar Santa Rosa prison so inmates will have the luxury of watching a variety of channels while serving time for their crimes.

ANSA McAl executives yesterday rejected claims that the Trinidad-based conglomerate signed a secret deal with the Government of Guyana (GoG) to establish an ethanol plant here, saying that much depends on a feasibility study due to be completed by year-end.

Caricom will not meet its commitment to achieve a full single economy and single currency under the CSME by 2015, Secretary General Irwin LaRocque said yesterday, while confirming a finding by consultants that the community is at decisive crossroads.

President Donald Ramotar met yesterday with Leader of the Opposition David Granger at the Office of the President where they discussed constitutional and statutory matters with regard to appointments to about ten key public sector posts.

The Alliance For Change, in noting that the latest Auditor General’s Report has again identified a number  of financial discrepancies and instances of unaccountability, is urging Members of Parliament to take a zero tolerance approach to corruption.

The man who reportedly shot two women, including one who was pregnant, moments after committing a robbery, was yesterday slapped with several charges and remanded to prison.