Guyana News

Non-governmental organisation, Conservation Interna-tional (CI) has set up a fund to ensure financial sustainability of protected areas in Guyana which will be kick-started by $2 billion in endowments.

Chinese information and communication technology solutions provider company Huawei is currently seeking persons to fill some critical positions as the company commences a new phase of its work on Guyana’s broadband platform.

Over 50 residents of Kwakwani blocked the main access road in the area in protest yesterday, after Rusal denied their request for a contract to transport bauxite from the mines to the stockpile.

Seven years after city council worker Andrew Bess was gunned down, his widow believes that the five gunmen who stormed their North Ruimveldt grocery were sent to kill him and that the killers are roaming freely although police have solid evidence that links them to the crime.

Gunmen launched an attack on the Little Rock Hotel and Television Station at Lot 6 Vrymen’s Erven, New Amsterdam, Berbice on Friday night, escaping with cash, jewellery and other items valued in excess of $1 million.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) will press for an enquiry into the spate of murders and other criminal activities between 2002 and 2008 and its leader David Granger says the investigation should be about “more than just Roger Khan.”

Some current Members of Parliament (MPs) from both government and opposition hold citizenship in Guyana and other countries—a continuing breach of the Constitution that is acknowledged but has still not been corrected.

Valerie Garrido-Lowe may be a new face in the National Assembly but she is certainly not new to the world of politics, and her experience in the last few months has only served to strengthen her resolve to fight for equal rights and justice for the down trodden, she says.

Astute management under difficult conditions, as well as projecting where the company should be going have kept Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL) in the competitive lane, so that it moved from being a single company to becoming a conglomerate and one of best known businesses in Guyana.

(Barbados Nation) Rihanna is sporting a new look. She’s now a blonde.

Proprietress of Little Rock Hotel & Television Station Pearl Dindyal, also known as Pearl Christie and staffers were robbed of cash, jewellery and a quantity of items in excess of  $1M by bandits yesterday.

Farmers of Yakusari, Black Bush Polder burnt tyres on the road today in protest at the stagnant floodwater in their farms which has resulted in losses to their rice, cash crops and livestock.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Russia and China vetoed today a U.N.

(Trinidad Guardian) A couple, both foreign nationals, are expected to appear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate on Monday after a yacht they were residing in was found to contain a substantial cache of illegal arms and ammunition.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja fetched a bid worth more than $2 million, the highest in today’s Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, while there was no taker for frontline England players.

(Jamaica Observer) Maurice Tomlinson, a Jamaican man who recently married a Canadian policeman, claims lesbians in Jamaica are gang raped.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Criminals and other suspicious persons on the black list of local and international authorities as well as lost or stolen passports can be uncovered easily at all legal ports of entry.

(Jamaica Observer) Justice Minister Mark Golding says plans are under way to launch a revised Victims’ Charter.

(Jamaica Gleaner) What was supposed to be an educational trip to St Mary Banana Plantation for a group of students of St Andrew College in Kingston ended in a tragic nightmare when two of the students drowned in neighbouring Portland.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The murder case against Eldon Calvert, the alleged leader of the Montego Bay based Stone Crusher gang, and two other men was thrown out yesterday because a policeman fabricated a witness statement.