Guyana News

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Tuesday called on the Community Council to equip the CARICOM Secretariat to be the change agent that it  required.

Police say that at about 2015h on Wednesday night, Police Constable Jermaine Brown was shot to his left hip by

Australia is aiming to strengthen its relationship with the Caribbean Community (Caricom) by identifying ways that it can expand aid to the region through a development needs assessment exercise.

(Barbados Nation) The American University of Barbados, whose official opening is set for today, can pose serious challenges to the University of the West Indies (UWI) medical school at Cave Hill when it comes to foreign students.

(CMC) ST. JOHN’S Dinanath Ramnarine said the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) unilaterally moved the forthcoming third Test between West Indies and Australia and Regional Four-Day Tournament matches from Guyana to Dominica.

(Trinidad Express) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine said yesterday his Ministry responded to concerns raised by United States Ambassador Beatrice Wilkinson Welters over proposed energy projects worth US$5.7 billion with Saudi Arabian state company SABIC.

(Trinidad Express) Dismissed executive director of the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs) Lynn-Anne Williams has taken her former employers to court.

(Trinidad Express) First it was the TV6’s offices last December, and now the police have stormed Newsday’s offices at Chacon Street in Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Express) Seven directors of the board of Caribbean Communications Network Ltd (CCN) have received letters from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) requesting interviews on the issue of the airing of certain tapes on the Crime Watch programme on TV6.

(Trinidad Express) Deputy chairman of the Integrity Commission, Gladys Gafoor, has been suspended from duty by President George Maxwell Richards.

Musician and legendary pannist, Roy Geddes, was yesterday attacked by a lone gunman who carted off two gold chains after beating the 72-year-old in front of his home.

The Muslim scholar charged with sexually molesting three boys was granted $750,000 bail in the High Court yesterday but his freedom was short lived as he was rearrested today while leaving the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court, where he had made his second appearance.

The police say that they conducted searches today in Tucville and West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, during which a total of seventeen men were arrested pending investigations for various offences including trafficking in narcotics, robbery under arms and possession of house breaking implements.

Police say that at about 2015h last night, Police Constable Jermaine Brown was shot to his left hip by another rank who was clearing his firearm at the time at Impact Base, Brickdam Police Station.

CGX Energy Inc today announced that drilling for oil had started offshore Guyana on a licence in which it has 25% ownership.

(Jamaica Observer) A new documentary on the life of reggae legend Bob Marley is scheduled to open April 20 in the United States.

(Jamaica Gleaner)  Leader of Government Business in the House of Representatives Philip Paulwell said on Tuesday that Parliament was conceived with a bias against women.

Drug trafficking is responsible for a third of homicides in Guyana annually and has promoted  corruption to such an extent that traffickers are shielded from prosecution, a United Nations (UNDP) Citizens Security Survey has  found.

Dozens of Mon Repos villagers last evening poured into the streets to protest  the recent spate of piracy  even as the second body of four men who went to the aid of hijacked fishermen and encountered tragedy washed ashore in Essequibo.

The admission by Police Commissioner Henry Greene  in court documents that he had consensual sex with the woman accusing him of rape concerns government and in time could attract disciplinary action, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr.