Guyana News

Report # 5   Citizens are advised that the La Nina phenomenon still persists over Guyana.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – An extraordinary switch-hit six from David Warner and a Matt Wade half century fired Australia to a 31-run victory over India in the first of two Twenty20 matches today.

(New York Newsday) This news just out now: Don Cornelius is dead of an apparent suicide, TMZ and The Associated Press are reporting.

(Trinidad Guardian) An order was issued for the immediate deportation of Guyanese national Allian Gilgeous yesterday after he was convicted of working in T&T without a permit.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Captain Horace Burrell, in a bid to end the sordid episode of his recent three-month FIFA suspension, yesterday reiterated that neither himself nor his administration benefited from the US$40,000 during the controversial meeting in Trinidad.

(Barbados Nation) Some Caribbean Governments have been accused of “drinking milk through the fence [for free] but don’t want to buy the cow” when it comes to LIAT.

The threat to Guyana’s cricket grew more dire today when the Board of the International Cricket Council (ICC)  condemned the Guyana Government over its installation of an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to run cricket here.

(Barbados Nation) A CLICO solution that pleases all the interested parties looks unlikely.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday uninvited herself from a meeting planned by her Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner at Petite Morne, Ste Madeleine.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s offer to step aside as India captain if a “better” candidate can be found is a noble gesture given the team’s woeful run of test form, but several former skippers believe the wicketkeeper remains the best man for the job.

(Trinidad Express) Acting Commissioner of Police Jack Ewatski yesterday said when he went flying with Daniel Condon, one of the directors of the Trinidad and Tobago Air Support Company, it was for pleasure, not business.

With rain continuing to pound the coast, the government yesterday announced that water would be released into the Mahaica Creek from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC), a move likely to deepen criticism of its handling of drainage since the 2005 Great Flood.

Sections of the University of Guyana student body and most lecturers yesterday interrupted classes at the Turkeyen Campus to protest the dismissal of Freddie Kissoon as well as shoddy facilities at the institution.

A fire of unknown origin last night gutted a Range House at Lot 334 Timehri, Hill Top opposite the Timehri Red Ground and about half a mile from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport leaving approximately ten families homeless.

Four PPP/C members of the University of Guyana (UG) council last night defended the decision to cancel the contract of lecturer Freddie Kissoon, saying that he failed to meet staff requirements and that no member of the body was in favour of keeping him on.

Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday imposed a twelve-year sentence on Shawn Tyndall who confessed to the unlawful killing of his lover Camille  Medina De Jonge at her Manchester Village home between September 24 and 25, 2006.

As rainfall persisted for most of yesterday, several villages along the East Coast of Demerara were waterlogged, including Dazzell Housing Scheme, where residents appealed for better drainage to prevent recurring floods in the community.

As the rain continues, the water level in the Mahaica and Mahaicony is getting higher and some residents have already lost their entire crops while others are struggling to save what is left of theirs.

After enduring over three days of heavy rainfall, residents of some areas in Region Three want to know why they were not given any warning which could have helped them to avert

Guyanese requiring emergency health treatment can soon expect improved ambulatory care as more than two dozen healthcare workers are being trained as Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) trainers.