Guyana News

Thirty-five-year-old Trevor Williams describes his involvement in politics “as most natural” since as long as he remembers he has been outspoken and always wanted to be a part of whatever was happening around him.

COLUMBIA, S.C., (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich scrapped his way to victory in South Carolina today as voters in the conservative state rejected frontrunner Mitt Romney’s pitch that he is the best bet to fix a broken economy and defeat Democratic President Barack Obama.

Police say that investigations are being conducted into a fire that occurred at the Immigration Office in the Multipurpose Complex at Lethem at about 0400h today.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – No one calls him Sir Allen  Stanford anymore.

KANO, Nigeria, (Reuters) – More than 100 people were  killed in bomb attacks and gunbattles in the Nigerian city Kano  late yesterday, a local government security source said, in the  deadliest strike claimed by Islamist sect Boko Haram to date.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Rojen Basdeo, 39 years of No.0 Village, Corentyne, which occurred at about 2330h last night on a cattle ranch in the backdam at No.56 Village, Corentyne.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine yesterday told a news conference that he is now prepared to meet with the Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) to discuss its opposition to any plan to include private equity in Petrotrin.

(Jamaica Observer) Reggae artiste Errol Scorcher passed away in the Spanish Town Hospital, St Catherine on Thursday.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Edward Belfort, deputy director of the Delinquents Care department has submitted a US$ 1.2 million project proposal with the government to fight corruption in prisons.

PARAMARIBO – “I won’t be standing here with you next year”, chairman Ronald Venetiaan of the National Party Suriname (NPS) said yesterday as he laid a wreath at the statue of the late Johan Adolf Pengel to mark what would have been this former chairman’s 96th birthday.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The influx of Chinese immigrants in the past years was politically and strategically motivated.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has asked why State-owned and subsidised Caribbean Airlines made a donation to the Children’s Life Fund, which was basically Government paying itself.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday denied that she made attempts to have a Muslim scholar accused of sexually assaulting four boys released from police custody.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday issued a notice proclaiming January 25, 2012 as the date for the election of members of the 10 Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) to be held.

Attorney and politician Goumattie Singh was yesterday robbed of over $1M in foreign currency outside her home, shortly after returning to the country from Trinidad, where she underwent reconstructive surgery.

Pirates terrorized and robbed a fishing crew from the No. 66 Fish Port Complex, in the Corentyne of more than $500,000 in articles before leaving them adrift in Suriname early Wednesday morning.

Billy Glasgow, Steve Reddy and Robin Singh, the three persons nabbed after cocaine and ganja was found aboard fishing boat MV Bismarck 2, were yesterday remanded to prison after being arraigned on drug trafficking charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Khemraj Ramjattan says that he believes the AFC’s performance in the last elections placated a potentially explosive situation which may have occurred had the PPP/C won a majority.

Opposition leader David Granger yesterday called for an investigation into the administration of hinterland schools after recent protests, but Education Minister Priya Manickchand said a detailed examination is already underway, focusing on the provision of services and the expansion of dormitories.

Direct flights between Guyana and Miami will again be a reality when Surinam Airways launches its Paramaribo-Timehri-Miami return flight in April this year.