Guyana News

AFC leader Raphael Trotman was this afternoon elected Speaker of the National Assembly.

(Trinidad Express) Former finance minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira yesterday said it was a “coincidence” she and her sister broke their fixed deposits at CLICO Investment Bank (CIB) weeks before a billion-dollar bailout of CL Financial was brokered.

(Trinidad Express) Former prime minister Patrick Manning called for secrecy in the government’s handling of the financial difficulties facing CL Financial, in an attempt to prevent an immediate collapse of the conglomerate.

(Trinidad Express) KOLKATA: Trinidad and Tobago is wooing the Bollywood film industry to shoot their film on its exotic locales while pitching its own oil and natural gas and LNG to the Indian government.

(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs has been directed to investigate the police officers responsible for leaking a security intelligence report used by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley to discredit a purported plot to kill Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three other Government ministers.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) “sold out” Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo.

(Trinidad Express) Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Prof Ramesh Deosaran has summoned an emergency meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m.

The controversial contract awarded to Fip Motilall for the construction of US$15.4M worth of access roads to the Amaila hydro project site has been terminated.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Just under J$1 billion in cash and other assets were confiscated primarily from drug dealers and persons involved in the lottery scam last year, the Financial Investigations Division (FID) of the Ministry of Finance has revealed.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni has hinted he  will quit test cricket if he decides to lead India in their  World Cup defence in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

PERTH, (Reuters) – India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni  has rejected suggestions of in-fighting in his team on the tour  of Australia, saying the claims were possibly the result of a  beer-induced fantasy.

Alliance For Change Leader (AFC) Raphael Trotman has confirmed that he has been selected by the opposition parties as the consensus candidate for the post of Speaker of the National Assembly following the withdrawal of previous AFC nominee Moses Nagamootoo.

Preliminary findings  into last July’s crash landing of a Caribbean Airlines ( CAL) Boeing 737 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri points to  pilot error as the pilot may have undertaken a “long landing” without having sufficient space to bring the aircraft to a safe stop.

The PPP/C will nominate and vote “solidly” for Ralph Ramkarran to continue as Speaker of the National Assembly, acting Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Gail Teixeira, said yesterday.

The Central Executive of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ALP) has condemned the island’s police for what it calls the defamation of party officials and supporters, including Guyanese-born diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders, saying it is another chapter in the political harassment of its leadership.

The plot of land that once housed the Metropole Cinema, at the corner of Robb and Wellington streets, in Georgetown, has been sold.

Police at the Central Police Station at New Amsterdam, Berbice are probing a report that US$4,900 (around $1M) was stolen from a bag which was left in the office of the officer-in-charge of the station.

The HPV vaccine was yesterday launched at the East La Penitence Health Centre as part of cervical cancer awareness month and it is being promoted as increasing life expectancy among females.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday said it was “increasingly concerned” about the number of domestic aircraft accidents, and safety seminars were held last month to ensure that the aviation industry maintains high standards.

The police say there was a decrease of 8% in murders during last year when figures of 140 for 2010 and 129 for 2011 are compared.