Guyana News

(Reuters) – National fundraising committees for the Democratic and Republican parties, President Barack Obama, and other major politicians have declined to return campaign     donations totaling $1.8 million from Houston financier R.

REDjet is examining adding new routes out of Guyana, company CEO Ian Burns says, but he is warning that protectionism in the region can hurt travellers and restrict them to high fares.

Police say that at about 1930h last night, Wayne St. Hill, 31 years of Castello H/S, Georgetown, was shot and injured to his chest and right thigh by a man armed with a handgun.

Guatemala yesterday said that the US’ inability to cut drug consumption leaves it with no option but to consider legalising the use and transport of drugs, the Associated Press reported.

(Jamaica Observer) Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Anthony Hylton, said plans are in place to establish Jamaica as a major logistic centre within the Caribbean region.

(Jamaica Observer) Lawyers for imprisoned reggae star Buju Banton were dealt a major blow yesterday when the United States government said there was sufficient evidence to support his June, 2011 conviction on cocaine conspiracy and trafficking charges.

Photographer Ken Moore A.A. passed away this morning at the Georgetown Hospital where he was being treated for several ailments.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will quadruple its investments in Suriname between 2011 and 2015 compared to the 2006-2010 period, Central Bank governor Gilmore Hoefdraad announced at the intercessional meeting of IDB country representatives and Caribbean financial authorities. 

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – ‘Regional economic integration has been top priority of Caribbean leaders for more than half a century, but it’s been nothing more than rhetoric, no action.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A U.N. Security Council delegation arrived in Haiti yesterday for a four-day visit to Haiti to assess security needs before a decision over reducing the 10,500-member peacekeeping force.

(Trinidad Guardian) Almost two weeks after Valencia schoolgirl Amanda Pamponette was chopped to death by a group of men near her home, three men, among them a neighbour, appeared in court yesterday charged with her murder.

(Barbados Nation) Realtor Paul Altman is calling for a heritage tax to be placed on tourists.

(Trinidad Express) Founder of the Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA), Paula Lucie-Smith, has been named as one of three persons who will receive this year’s Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence.

(Trinidad Express) Lawyers acting on behalf of Newsday have called on Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs to explain why a marked police vehicle was stationed outside the home of reporter Andre Bagoo on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Express) Suspended deputy chairman of the Integrity Commission, Gladys Gafoor, is disputing President Max Richards’s account of the events that led to her suspension.

President Donald Ramotar has accused APNU and AFC of “manipulating” the results of last year’s general elections and cheating the PPP/C of a majority victory—new claims for which opposition leader David Granger said he would be demanding an explanation.

A Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo businessman and his family were beaten by two bandits, who carted off around $7 million in cash and jewellery.

(Roxanne Clarke and Marcelle Thomas) An octogenarian burned to death in her sleep during a fire which gutted her bedroom at her two-storey Diamond, East Bank Demerara home last night.

A man who suspected that his wife was unfaithful to him yesterday reportedly burnt down their home leaving his family of 8 homeless.

Story and photos by Lakhram Bhagirat With floodwater receding in Mahaicony Creek communities, the full extent of losses are now being realised and farmers are demanding full compensation for damaged crops and dead livestock.