Guyana News

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Mike Brearley, one  of England’s most successful cricket captains, said today that eradicating corruption from the game was probably  impossible but that was no reason to stop trying.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Accusations by former Speaker of Parliament Indra Djwalapersad on drugs transports from Guyana to Suriname will be investigated.

(Barbados Nation) It was as if the football match that ended so abruptly and tragically at Gully Hill in Carrington Village, St Michael, on New Year’s Day had resumed at the Coleridge Street court complex in Bridgetown yesterday.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar  al-Assad today blamed “foreign planning” for a 10-month-old  popular uprising in which thousands of people have been killed  and vowed to strike “terrorists with an iron fist”.

(Barbados Nation) There is a possibility that cocaine passes through Barbados on a weekly basis, says Royal Barbados Police Force Drug Squad investigator Damien Bennett.

The 10th Parliament of Guyana will convene this Thursday, January 12 at 14:00 hrs in the Parliament Chambers, Public Buildings Georgetown.

A team of anti-narcotics agents led by the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday morning unearthed some 50 kilogrammes (110lbs) of compressed marijuana stashed in a quantity of pumpkins destined for Barbados.

The Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre yesterday began a year-long slate of activities to commemorate its 45th anniversary.

GGG Councillor Patricia Chase-Green will act as Deputy Mayor while Robert Williams remains hospitalized.

In a report in yesterday’s edition, the New York Times said that scores of Guyanese, if not more, face financial ruin because of loans brokered by real estate magnate Ed Ahmad who has been charged over a US$50 million mortgage fraud.

A 60-year-old resident of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice, sustained severe chops about his body when four armed, masked bandits attacked him around 6.30 pm on Sunday and terrorized his daughters.

Attorney-at-Law James Bond dismissed reports of him recently assaulting a barber and stated that the issue was nothing but a “gross misunderstanding”.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday denied claims by a patient that her baby died in childbirth, because she had to wait more than three hours for caesarian surgery, even as one of the child’s hands dangled from her vagina, asserting instead that the baby was dead before the woman was admitted to hospital.

A senior Antiguan attorney has said that it was improper for the police to publicly declare Sir Ronald Sanders a person of interest in the IHI debt settlement scandal even as Sanders has said he will take legal action.

Two hundred and twenty-six cases are set to be heard during the Demerara Assizes sessions which open today.

A father of four was yesterday charged with assaulting his wife, whom he allegedly tied with a rope and dragged up the stairs in their home before taking a cutlass to her.

The 22-year-old woman who made a human torch of herself because of an apparent argument with her 52-year-old lover, died last Wednesday and was laid to rest yesterday at the Golden Grove Cemetery, East Coast Demerara.

Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) yesterday paid out reimbursements related to several dozen Essequibo Coast residents at its Adventure offices after it recently sold them tainted fuel.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry sentenced a 21-year-old British national who ingested cocaine for the purpose of trafficking to four years jail and fined him $30,000 after he pleaded guilty to the charge.

President Donald Ramotar and Education minister Priya Manickchand joined relatives and friends of Cecelia Rebecca Tappin to celebrate her 100 birthday on Sunday.