Guyana News

The Ministry of Public Works reported that all its programmes are moving apace at its monthly meeting held last week and it was reported that in December, 252,500 vehicles crossed the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

(Trinidad Express) The man accused of killing six-year-old Josiah Governor at his Laventille home last week Friday made his first appearance in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Less than 48 hours after former prime minister Patrick Manning suffered a stroke, he has been taken out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the San Fernando General Hospital and has shown some signs he is on the road to recovery.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Muslim civil rights groups demanded the resignation of New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly today amid a controversy over the repeated screening of an offensive video.

The Muslim scholar at the centre of the sexual molestation scandal remained in police custody up to press time this evening and a police source said investigators are looking to institute charges before the end of the week.

(Jamaica Observer) Seventeen-year-old Prince Gray, a student of the Kellits High School in Clarendon, was shot and killed this morning.

The Alliance For Change has secured the Chairmanship of Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni).

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim and his six deputies, the presidency said today, a week after the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack escaped from police custody.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sports Minister Anil Roberts yesterday said he was moving to end all hostilities—real or imagined—between himself and the T&T Cricket Board, so that the best interest of the sport will be served.

(Trinidad Express) In its first published financial statements in several years, collapsed insurance giant Colonial Life (CLICO) has presented a balance sheet for 2009 ravaged by massive liabilities of TT$24.5 billion and a 34 per cent decline in income.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “It’s scandalous,” declared Opposition Member of Parliament Everald Warmington after hearing that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration, of which he was a member, presided over an almost total commitment of Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) funds.

The largest solar power plant in the Caribbean is to be built in Jamaica by Solamon Energy Corporation and will generate 60 megawatts.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – U.S. helicopters swooped into Somalia today and rescued an American and a Dane after a shootout with pirates holding them hostage, in a rare raid into the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – For a month, a nation of 1.2 billion cricket crazy fans woke up at an ungodly hour, crawled out of the blanket’s warmth and switched on their televisions hoping to watch India’s favourite sons winning their first test series in Australia.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke hit masterful double centuries to drive Australia to 604 for seven declared before their bowlers reduced India to 61 for two at the end of second day of the fourth test today.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader and Political Leader of the People’s National Movement (PNM), Dr Keith Rowley, did not get to see his former prime minister Patrick Manning at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital last evening.

Executives of Sithe Global, the developer of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, are counting on the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide critical financing for the project.

-APNU condemns decision The University of Guyana (UG) Council’s dismissal of lecturer Freddie Kissoon was based on his job performance, Dean of the Social Sciences faculty O’Neil Greaves said yesterday.

Wazim Bux was yesterday sentenced to nine years in jail for the fatal shooting of his lover’s husband.

A total of seven boys interviewed in the probe of a Muslim cleric show signs of sexual abuse, a source close to the investigation told Stabroek News yesterday.