Guyana News

The last defendant in the 2007 JFK Airport terror plot which snared three Guyanese was yesterday sentenced in a New York court to life imprisonment.

A septuagenarian on Thursday became Linden’s first traffic fatality for 2012; attributed to poor judgment on the part of deceased and speeding on the part of the other party involved.

Police have released a second man held for questioning in connection with the murder of pensioner Bebe Jahooral Banu, who is among five elderly women murdered over the past year for which the perpetrators remain at-large.

The residents of Vriesland and Vive La-Force, West Bank Demerara in Region Three are complaining of the deplorable state of their roadways and the constant flooding they endure.

Norton Street, Lodge residents say that emergency repair works to their street, carried out by the Public Works Ministry on Tuesday, were not done properly, and they are threatening to resume protesting until the authorities act.

The En-compass project hosted a workshop aimed at safeguarding the cultural heritage of the Makushi people at the Bina Hill Institute at Annai, North Rupununi, in December.

Ten persons, including an eight-month-old baby, escaped with only their lives early Thursday morning when a fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, gutted their two-storey Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara home.

With a week gone of the two-week deadline given by Education Minister Priya Manickchand to Region Three’s administrative and education officials to have the pond in front of the Nismes Primary School filled, works are yet to start.

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is launching a documentary short, titled “Holding back the Sea,” aimed at teaching the public about the importance of restoring and protecting mangroves.

Legendary music promoter Cyril Shaw passed away yesterday at a home for the elderly in Berbice, where he was being taken care of while being treated for Alzheimer’s.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has said the mobile unit of its National Weights and Measures Programme will start verification exercises shortly, even as it plans to find new ways of meeting stakeholders’ needs and safeguarding consumers this year.

The management of BOSAI Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc. (BMGGI) is optimistic that the company will complete at least one of two dust collectors to be installed on kilns 13 and 14 in the bauxite plant to significantly reduce the dust emitted into the Linden community and its environs.

(Trinidad Express) The final day of the fourth evidence hearing of the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial and the Hindu Credit Union descended into “harsh exchanges” between ambassador Mervyn Assam and two members of the inner bar—Queen’s Counsel Bankim Thanki and Martin Daly, SC.

(Trinidad Express) A 58-year-old Port of Spain man is dead and two of his friends injured after they were ambushed by two gunmen while attending a wake near their homes in East Dry River on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Express) Three bodies, believed to be those of three missing Chaguanas fishermen, were found floating in Port of Spain waters yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) CLICO Investment Bank (CIB), a subsidiary of CL Financial, was yesterday described as a “bran tub” and a “cancer” by one of its founders, ambassador Mervyn Assam.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday India’s largest private company, Reliance, plans to invest $1 billion in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) The Police Service Commission (PSC) has requested a face-to-face session with Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs before deciding on his fate.

The last defendant in the 2007 JFK Airport terror plot which snared three Guyanese was today sentenced in a New York court to life imprisonment.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s carried  out a mass downgrade of euro zone countries today, stripping France and Austria of their top-grade AAA  ratings in a move that may complicate efforts to solve a  two-year old European debt crisis.