Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) Nicole Patrick resigned her post as corporate secretary of insurance giant CLICO because she was being asked to sign questionable legal documents.

(Trinidad Express) Billionaire businessman Lawrence Duprey believed failed insurance giant CLICO was a cash fund which was easily accessible to finance investments for its parent company CL Financial.

The strike at the University of Guyana (UG) is over and classes will resume tomorrow at 7 am.

The secret biofuels agreement with the Trinidadian conglomerate, Ansa McAl entered into by the previous Bharrat Jagdeo administration is another that should be added to the list for review, Leader of the Opposition, David Granger says.

Digicel secured the top spot in several categories of this year’s Mashramani costume and float parade while local songster Adrian Dutchin is the winner of the Road March competition.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman says he intends to meet with representatives from both government and opposition, in an effort to avert potential gridlock in the consideration of the PPP/C’s outstanding extra-budgetary spending from last year.

The parents of a trainee teacher who was brutally stabbed to death in 2010 are convinced that there are deliberate attempts to cover up the case as evidence of the person involved has been shoved aside and ignored.

More than two years after Llewelyn Fitzgerald Campbell was found on the Kingston seawall with his throat slashed and head bashed in, police are yet to find the person(s) he was going to meet there; a vital piece of the puzzle that could crack the case wide open.

Relatives of 38-year-old Ramcumar Bandhoo who murdered his girlfriend, 47, at Mynderse Street, Schenectady, United States acknowledged that the two were having a rocky relationship and said he wanted to move on.

A mentally ill patient of the Georgetown Hospital was injured last night after he jumped off a balcony in a bid to escape from nurses.

Leader of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) David Granger said the OAS Electoral Observer Mission (EOM) failed to effectively capture the gravity of the malpractices that took place on November 28, 2011.

Miners have not heard back from the government on the outcome of Cabinet’s consideration of the report of the Special Land Use Committee (SLUC) the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association administrative coordinator, Colin Sparman says.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is in the process of implementing a computerized system of processing drivers’ licences which will be introduced in the third quarter of this year, the GRA’s Public Relations Unit said in a press release.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee caused hilarity in Parliament on February 10 when he suggested that during the period around elections 2011, there had been an increase in the number of juvenile inmates at the Sophia holding facility and there had been a consequent rise in the cost of feeding them.

An excavator was deployed recently to the Seven Miles, Mahdia area where works commenced immediately to clear the existing drain and excavate additional areas to allow for  more rapid drainage with a significantly larger amount of water being discharged into the Mahdia Creek.

A bandit who robbed a fish vendor yesterday morning of his day’s sales at Bell Vue, East Bank Berbice was apprehended following diligent efforts by the victim, an ex-police officer and another man.

The Georgetown Zoo, which many parents once visited with their children to see the animals from Guyana’s own rainforest, as well as more exotic species from outside, has been deteriorating for years with little action being taken to improve it.

Two days after Guyanese celebrated Mashramani, several streets and canals have not been cleaned and Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green, said this can be blamed on the financial constraints of the council which cannot afford to pay its cleaning crews overtime.

The Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc. today condemned the conduct of Police Commissioner Henry Greene in the matter that has led to a rape investigation against him and called on him to resign saying that he was unfit to hold any public office.

The Guyana Government today denied that its Memorandum of Understanding with the ANSA McAl group for a biofuel project was a “secret” deal.