Guyana News

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on Thursday announced that Cabinet has given its no-objection to a contract valued €419,000 (GYD$110M) for consultancy services for technical assistance in mangrove rehabilitation.

Godfrey Chin, considered Guyana’s “memory man,” was laid to rest yesterday.

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce in collaboration with General Executive Management Services (GEMS) Inc yesterday launched its fifth edition of “Guyana Where and What” tourist guide.

Some roads in the Diamond/Grove, East Bank Demerara area are to be rebuilt under the Community Roads Improvement Programme (CRIP), which is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Junior Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker told residents there on Thursday.

Berbicians are concerned over dead fish that have been floating up in the Corentyne River, from No.

Two men were yesterday charged with a $1.5M break and enter and larceny, after they were allegedly caught red handed inside the Super Songs CD and Electronics Store, at Cornhill Street, in Georgetown.

Orpheus Johnson, who is accused of the murder of Kaneville resident Brendon Charles, who was beaten and shot, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

Two inmates of the Georgetown Prisons accused of narcotic possession while in prison were yesterday remanded by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

(Trinidad Express) Finally. This was the word used by former Caroni workers to state how they felt about receiving their leases for residential lots yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Riot Squad police had to be called in at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday after prisoners staged a near-riot at the courthouse in protest of body searches by Court and Process Branch officers.

(Trinidad Express) Police are probing the death of a six-year-old Laventille boy who was reportedly beaten to death by a male relative for not doing his homework.

(Trinidad Express) CLICO agent Solomon Hem-Lee, who said he had received death threats as a result of the collapse of the insurance company, was found murdered in Enterprise, Chaguanas, just after midnight yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC/IANS – Estranged West Indies batsman Chris Gayle inked a new deal yesterday with Bangalore Royal Challengers for the next two seasons of the Indian Premier League.

Acting in accordance with Article 73 (2) of the Constitution of Guyana, President Donald Ramotar has issued the Notice today, 20th January, 2012 proclaiming January 25th, 2012 as the date that election of members of the ten Regional Democratic Councils shall be held in their respective boardrooms.

(Barbados Nation) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Government about its continued use of National Insurance Scheme (NIS) funds.

(Jamaica Observer) Former Jamaican Cabinet Minister Dudley Thompson died this morning in New York, USA, one day after he celebrated his 95th birthday.

(Jamaica Observer) Producer and songwriter Winston Riley is dead. Riley died in hospital yesterday from the effects of a gunshot wound he received last year.

Police say that at about 0300h. today, attorney Gomattie Singh, 52 years, and Krishna Persaud of Prashad Nagar, Georgetown; along with taxi-driver Seenauth Ramroop, 36 years, were attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

Billy Glasgow, Steve Reddy and Robin Singh, held in connection with cocaine and ganja found aboard the MV Bismarck 2, were today remanded to prison after being arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three-time Grammy winner singer Etta James, a pioneer of 1950s rhythm-and-blues and rock music known for her show-stopping hit “At Last,” has died at age 73, her manager said on Friday.