Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Where is Leroy Parris? Court marshals were up to late last night still searching for the former CLICO executive chairman to serve him with a summons to appear in court.

(Trinidad Express) Insurance giant CLICO never failed. This according to former corporate secretary of the company Geoffrey Leid as he took the witness stand in the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial and the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) at the Winsure Building, Richmond Street in Port of Spain yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Krishna Rampersad, nephew of murdered millionaire Mahase Rampersad, appeared in court yesterday charged with killing his uncle and his uncle’s wife, Darling.

(Jamaica Observer) A forensic audit of the US$ 400-million Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), which has come under scrutiny over allegations of gross mismanagement, is to begin in April this year.

(Barbados Nation) Britain’s Prince Edward today sang the praises of Barbados as a “model small state” but advised its leaders they would need courage, creativity and common sense to overcome the economic challenges.

(Jamaica Gleaner) India’s Sachin Tendulkar has been awarded top honours in Test batting at the ESPNcricinfo Awards 2011, which celebrate the best individual performances in the past year by batsmen and bowlers in Tests and one-day internationals (ODIs).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Empowered by the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), the Financial Investigations Division (FID) has dealt a significant blow to the coffers of a number of alleged drug smugglers, freezing more than J$700 million in real estate, motor vehicles, bank accounts, furniture and expensive jewellery.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Hugh Anthony Rawlins has resigned.

(Barbados Nation) The depth of the involvement of late Prime Minister David Thompson in CLICO International Life Insurance Limited (CIL) has engaged the attention of the Barbados Investors & Policyholders Alliance Inc.

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

(Trinidad Guardian) A song that was initially a rejected advertisement became a two million dollar earner and Road March 2012 for soca artiste Machel Montano.

(Trinidad Guardian) Unless the Kamla Persad-Bissessar-led administration is able to convince Lawrence Duprey otherwise, the shareholders’ agreement between the Government and CL Financial comes to an end in 110 days time.

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, today’s Trinidad Guardian reported.

Several hours of discussion with the University of Guyana Administration over a two-day period appears to have fallen apart and the three unions that formed ‘Operation Rescue UG’ said they may be going into a full-fledged strike as of tomorrow.

The creation of a database on fishermen and their activities is crucial to ensure security at sea, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said yesterday, while noting that two-thirds of the fishing vessels operating in local waters were unlicensed last year.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds has warned that consumers may soon have to pay more for their electricity supply as government, under the strain of rising fuel prices, sees the need to recoup some of the investments made in the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) to reduce technical and commercial losses.

Police are investigating yet another interior murder following the death of Clive Cornelius who was killed following an altercation with another man at Imbaimadai.

The 2010 report of the Auditor General has cited a Ministry of Culture account with $294 million as being in breach of the law.

Carib Soca Monarch Jumo Primo yesterday received his prize of $1.5 million and a bonus of $100,000 for prevailing as the ‘Best Newcomer’ in the competition which was staged on Saturday evening.

Residents of the East Bank Berbice, who had been blocking the road at Glasgow in frustration over its condition, ended their protest action on Tuesday, after assurances that a new road would be constructed.