Guyana News

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) and its partners in the Caribbean Community Resilience to Disaster Risk (CCRDR) group met recently to review the work done since it convened and to establish a second year work plan and budget.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry dismissed the case against APNU youth activist and attorney-at-law James Bond yesterday after the virtual complainant declined to proceed with the matter when it was called in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The European Union today announced that it transferred a further $3.4B to the Government of Guyana in support to the sugar sector and a further $6.8B is to be supplied this year once the relevant financing agreement is signed.

Yesterday’s rainfall: The Hydrometeorological Service as at 8.00 hours on January 30th, 2012, received reports from a number of its rainfall stationsa cross the country.

The Guyana Police Force says that telephone service at the Brickdam Police Station, including the emergency 911 line, has been disrupted after a tree fell on Brickdam.

(Trinidad Guardian) British journalist Andrew Jennings claimed in an article, published in the British press, yesterday that FIFA president Sepp Blatter favoured former vice president of the football body, Jack Warner, with television rights.

(Trinidad Guardian) Disabled Claxton Bay mother of two Patricia Pegus can’t understand why anyone would want to kill her son, Aldon, a 35-year-old dog trainer/breeder, who was ambushed at his Rose Hill Street, Claxton Bay, home yesterday morning.

Deputy Mayor Robert Williams died this morning in hospital where he was admitted almost a month ago for heart related complications.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The commercial sex industry is also benefiting from high gold prices.

(Trinidad Express) Indian High Commissioner Malay Mishra said yesterday that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar failed to truly connect with the people of her ancestral village of Bihar during her recent State visit to India.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan promised “harsh decisions” after an ambulance service ignored the cry for help from a young mother and her ailing baby.

(Barbados Nation) Today is D-DAY for Prime Ministers Freundel Stuart, Dr Ralph Gonsalves and Baldwin Spencer, meeting at Hilton Barbados to chart the way forward for financially-troubled LIAT (1974) Limited.

Several villages in Regions Five and Six remained under floodwater yesterday following heavy and persistent rain, with some West Berbice residents fearing that they would suffer losses to their cash crops.

Construction of the long-stalled US$51M Marriott Hotel in Kingston is scheduled to start next month but government is still seeking one or more participants who will collectively own 67% of the project’s equity amounting to US$8M.

The East Coast of Demerara was bracing for more rain today after heavy, persistent downpours yesterday left low-lying areas under inches of water.

The process recently used to allocate radio licences is “unworkable” the Guyana Media Proprietors Association (GMPA) has said while expressing concern about the absence of transparency.

The body of a man is being kept at the Lykens Funeral Parlour after it was collected from the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on Saturday evening.

Residents in some sections of the New Diamond and Grove Housing Schemes, East Bank Demerara are blaming poor maintenance of the drainage network for flooding in their areas yesterday.

A mother of five of No 10 Village, West Coast Berbice was left homeless and her belongings scattered in the rain after the father of her three smaller children dismantled the house they were living in.

More than two years after the US$2 million insurance fraud allegedly committed on the Sacred Heart Church was adjourned indefinitely, it was reopened on December 15 last year with the testimony of Gregory Yeadon, an insurance loss adjuster based in Barbados.