Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Westmoreland police last night made a major dent in the drug trade when they seized compressed ganja weighing 1600 pounds with an estimated value of $20 million.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The New York Times is reporting that federal prosecutors in Manhattan have asked a judge to impose a 23-year prison sentence on confessed Jamaican crime lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

(Barbados Nation) A top executive of a regional insurance company has cried shame on the former management of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) for its collapse.

(Jamaica Observer) Two of Jamaica’s high-profile family-run companies announced Thursday that they would be backing a small new financial firm that is just being set up in New Kingston, called BCW Capital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says she intends to report the leadership of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to CARICOM at next month’s regional heads of government meeting in Suriname.

(Barbados Nation) The integrity of the Clico International Life judicial management team has been called into question days after the damning results of a forensic audit by Deloitte Canada were made public.

HOBART, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka chased down 280 with four balls to spare to clinch a confidence-boosting three-wicket win over Australia in their one-day match in Hobart today and take top spot in the tri-series tournament.

Delivering its final verdict on the November 28 general elections, the OAS has confirmed its original finding of a mostly smooth process and has recommended reforms to the electoral system but there was nothing in the report that backed up recent claims by President Donald Ramotar that the APNU and the AFC had manipulated the poll results.

A 57-year-old mother of eight died after she was attacked by African bees while picking mangoes at the Cane Grove Backdam, East Coast Demerara (ECD) yesterday around 12:30 hrs.

A stray bullet shot by a fleeing bandit hit a woman in the abdomen yesterday, putting an end to her first trimester pregnancy as doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) were forced to abort the baby to avoid life-threatening complications.

Guyana-based Ansa McAL Trading Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Guyana government for the establishment of an ethanol production project on September 30 last year, the Trinidad Guardian reported yesterday.

The most recent audit for the Guyana Post Office Corporation – for the years 2003-4 – showed that liabilities exceeded assets by $575M.

The Regional Nine council studying a proposal for the establishment of a permanent disaster preparedness committee for the region, after last year’s devastating floods.

(Barbados Nation) Charwin Jermaine Estwick,  30, a contractor from Guyana, was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds on Wednesday after appearing in court charged with stealing Bds$164 819 from two of his clients.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai on Wednesday handed over a 15-seater minibus worth $3 million to Toshao Doreen Jacobis of St Deny’s Mission Tapakuma, Region Two for the transportation of produce from the village to Anna Regina Market and villagers including school children.

The autopsy performed on Ganesh Dharie, the man who was fatally struck down on Monday night by an ambulance on the Meten-Meer-Zorg road, revealed that he died of multiple injuries, which included broken ribs, a punctured lung and a fractured skull.

Music pounded and jubilant revellers filled the streets of Georgetown and later poured into the National Park as part of the celebration of Guyana’s 42nd Republic Anniversary, which was hosted this year under the theme ‘Mashin’ with Pride, Keepin’ we Traditions Alive’.

All four of the victims of the Hassar curry poisoning have been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital, but they voluntarily remain on a ‘soft diet’ and will not be eating their favourite spicy dishes anytime soon; while the person charged with the attack on them will be back in court today.

Bartica Regatta champion, Conan Belle is showing superb post-surgery vital signs, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Intensive Care Unit, where he is recuperating from major surgery following a horrific motorbike accident in the gold mining township.

Less than a decade after an over $100 million reconstruction, the Wismar Municipal Market still isn’t seeing much activity and its remaining stallholders are hoping for an intervention to keep them in business.