Guyana News

Shortly before demitting office last year, former president Bharrat Jagdeo had written to Norway’s Minister of the Environment and Development Cooperation, Erik Solheim, highlighting that there is still much to tackle in Guyana’s forest partnership with Oslo including the sloth in money flows to  Guyana.

AH&L Kissoon is one of the oldest furniture businesses in Guyana and while today it is much smaller than it was in its heyday it is still one of those most trusted by customers.

This is the seventh in our series on new parliamentarians The scrutiny of government contracts awarded to Region One will be high on the agenda of A Partnership of National Unity (APNU), new parliamentarian Richard Allen said, because for too long contractors have been allowed to get away with shoddy work.

Chairman of Region Four, Clement Corlette, has written to Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Ganga Persaud, regarding legal advice cited by the minister in a continuing row over the transfer of overseers within the region.

Coastal Wanderings, an exhibition featuring the photography of Nikhil Ramkarran and Michael Lam opens on Thursday, February 16 at the National Gallery, Castellani House.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) on Thursday declared that Police Commissioner Henry Greene has in fact lost the moral authority to lead the Guyana Police Force and should therefore no longer be required to do so.

A single mother of five was yesterday robbed of a gold chain valued $120,000 by a man who posed as a customer at her snackette at Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice.

A Haslington, East Coast Demerara man was yesterday shot and wounded when he resisted armed bandits who later escaped with a quantity of jewellery he was wearing at the time.

IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno arrived in Guyana yesterday for a one-day visit which could be crucial to the Amaila hydro project going ahead.

Portland, Maine,(Reuters) – Republican front-runner Mitt Romney bounced back from midweek losses in three states to win the Maine presidential caucuses, the state’s Republican Party announced today.

(CNN) — Legendary singer Whitney Houston has died at age 48, according to her representative Kristen Foster.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A probe is now under way by the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) into the killing of three men by the police in Rosevale, St James, yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Wanted man, Baggio Kristioi DeCourcey Daniel is in police custody.

US$7B Ponzi scheme-accused R. Allen Stanford changed the numbers of his offshore bank’s 2003 annual report to make them more favourable, a court in Houston, Texas heard yesterday.

At about 0830h today, police say that  Glendon Cosbert, 47 years, and his wife were walking along an access road at Haslington, ECD, when they were confronted by two men armed with handguns who held them up and took away the jewellery that Cosbert was wearing at the time.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Limited, parent company of Jamaica’s mobile telephone market leader, said it has successfully raised US$250 million (J$21 billion) from the private placement of an eight year corporate bond.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British police today arrested five people at The Sun tabloid newspaper, parent company News Corporation said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite threats by LIAT to sue Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) over allegations of unfair competition, Transport Minister Devant Maharaj says CAL would continue to service the Eastern Caribbean aggressively.

President Donald Ramotar, in his inaugural speech to the 10th Parliament, yesterday said that his administration is willing to “exercise patience, forbearance, and reasonableness in the interest of all of our people” but warned it would not be held ransom to “intractable postures”.

The Opposition yesterday defeated the Government on a vote to determine the composition of the key Committee of Selection as the new dispensation in Parliament manifested itself.