Guyana News

Two persons were on Monday charged before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry with forging a will.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s internal security  chief resigned late yesterday after revealing confidential  information that the country had intelligence agents in  Pakistan, government officials said.

The Chinese Association of Guyana is hosting its inaugural Chinese New Year Fair at the National Park on Sunday.

Minister within the Ministry of Local Government Norman Whittaker yesterday handed over a compactor truck to the Anna Regina Municipality at the Ministry’s compound in Kingston.

Works under the hinterland roads project, which encompasses 600 miles of interior road networks and 150 feet of bridges linking Amerindian communities to centres of commercial and social activities, are on track to be completed on schedule, according to Chief Roads Engineer Leon Goring.

(Trinidad Guardian) A police exercise in central Trinidad on Tuesday evening resulted in the arrest of two persons including a Cunupia housewife and the seizure of more than TT$1.5 million in cocaine.

(Barbados Nation) Contractor AL Barrack could get a long overdue payday this year; so too the victims of the CLICO debacle.

(Trinidad Guardian) Canada’s Commissioner of Corrections, Don Head, has expressed strong support for Government’s plans to introduce conjugal visits at T&T’s prisons.

(Trinidad Express) “The ultimate subservient of superiority and inferiority being demonstrated”.

(Trinidad Express) The rarity of an empty street in normally bustling St James yesterday presented a killer with the opportunity to fatally shoot a 52-year-old businessman in broad daylight.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A Las Vegas judge today dismissed the cocaine possession case against pop star  Bruno Mars after he successfully completed court-ordered drug  education classes and community service, even exceeding the  amount of hours he was told to serve.

The ruling party’s unwillingness to compromise on the nominee for the speakership left no room for any negotiations, AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan said today.

At about 0930h today, police say that the suspect in the murder of Afrozie Ali was arrested by members of the Tuschen Community Policing Group and handed over to the police.

Police said that at about 2130h last night, businesswoman Chandrawattie Ali, 50 years, of Parika, EBE, returned home, parked her vehicle  on the bridge and proceeded to open the gate to her premises.

(Jamaica Observer) NEW YORK, USA — Former Tivoli Gardens enforcer Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is to be sentenced on February 28 in a Manhattan court.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados economy has stabilised, but major economic growth still remains elusive.

(Trinidad Express) Two more men were gunned down in separate incidents in Diego Martin and Santa Cruz between Monday night and early yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A Point Fortin man described as a Baptist archbishop yesterday appeared in the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court on eight charges of demanding money by menace and obtaining money under false pretences.

A Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara businesswoman was found knifed to death in her home yesterday and police are seeking her husband for questioning.

The PPP/C says that it is reviewing its election strategy and why it lost votes and accused A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) of defenestrating tradition from Parliament.