Guyana News

A  24-year-old man early yesterday morning cheated death, receiving only minor injuries, after  the car he was driving slammed into a utility pole, turned turtle and then crashed  into the fence and balustrading of a Covent Garden house.

An Essequibo Coast man yesterday morning met an untimely death after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and crashed into a culvert on the public road in the area.

Residents of Linden joined by hundreds from overseas and around Guyana participated in all the events to mark the 42nd anniversary of the Republic of Guyana that were organized by the regional administration and several private promoters.

The government has denied that the bio-fuel Memoran-dum of Understanding (MoU) signed with Ansa McAl was “secret” and said that the Trinidadian conglomerate was selected after their proposal was scrutinized by technical experts in the field of bio-energy.

Almost four years after it was first put on sale, the Casique Hotel and Banquet Hall at Providence, East Bank Demerara is still to find a buyer.

A father of two succumbed on Friday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Burns Care Unit after being doused with kerosene and set alight by a woman in the presence of his two children on Sunday, February 19 according to his relatives yesterday.

A 37-year-old man, who pleaded guilty to stealing two bunches of plantains from a vendor, was last week fined $10,000 after he appeared before Magistrate Allan Wilson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

An Essequibo Coast man yesterday morning met an untimely death after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and crashed into a culvert on the public road in the area.

(Barbados Nation) Stressing that no one will dictate to him when the bell will ring for the general election, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said last night that legislation will be passed on bills covering integrity in public life and the prevention of corruption before the dissolution of Parliament.

(Barbados Nation) Leader of the opposition Barbados Labour Party, Owen Arthur, says the people of Barbados cannot wait for a commission of inquiry into the affairs of CLICO International Life (CIL) – and has called for immediate action on the matter.

(Trinidad Express) A 27-year-old California man was killed on Saturday night after he was shot multiple times while standing outside his home.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0100h today along the Maria’s Lodge Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and which resulted in the death of Michael Persaud, 19 years of Johanna Cecilia, Essequibo.

There will no elephant for the zoo just yet. And it will be expensive to modernize the facility.

The Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) has condemned the conduct of Police Commissioner Henry Greene who has admitted sexual relations with a potential criminal defendant and called on him to resign saying that he was unfit to hold public office.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is at risk of being “brought down quickly” if the international financial situation worsens, according to recent review that also warns of the real possibility that member states could walk away over the movement’s slow progress.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 31 Syrian civilians and soldiers were killed today in fighting over Syria’s future that coincided with a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2028.

(Barbados Nation) A fabrication! That’s how a special Barbados report has described allegations by Jamaican Shanique Myrie.

(Barbados Nation) Forensic auditors Deloitte Canada have called for another probe of CLICO International Life (CIL), in the face of numerous unanswered questions and missing documents to support CIL’s money trail.

(Trinidad Express) Patrons attending the regional four-day match between Trinidad and Tobago and the Windward Islands would have noticed a piece of Queen’s Park Oval history gone missing–the Sir Errol Dos Santos Stand is no more.

(Trinidad Express) Gita Sakal, former corporate secretary of failed conglomerate CL Financial and the woman who will best be remembered as the high flying executive who kept a US$5 million cheque tucked away in a desk drawer for close to two months, has been called back to the witness stand in the ongoing CL Financial Commission of Enquiry.