Guyana News

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez dismissed a U.S. warning to avoid close ties with Iran yesterday, denouncing what he said was Washington’s attempt to  dominate the world as he prepared to welcome the Iranian  president to the Latin American nation.

Nine persons were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital this afternoon after the horse cart they were travelling on collided with a minibus at the corner of Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue.

Police say that at about 2025h. last night, three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, entered the Big G Store at UG Access Road, Cummings Lodge and held up sales attendant Sharon Gomes and took away $175,000 and two cell phones and escaped.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – R&B superstar Beyonce has given  birth to a baby girl in New York, media outlets reported today.

A 45-year-old Guyanese sex-offender is among 1400 dangerous foreign criminals being sought by the authorities in Toronto, Canada.

(Trinidad Express) State-owned Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) is increasing its North American and regional routes to Trinidad for Carnival 2012.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar should consider taking a cue from Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo and also return her Senior Counsel instrument to President George Maxwell Richards, People’s National Movement chairman Franklin Khan has said.

(Trinidad Express) The police investigation into allegations that 17 men were part of an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Cabinet Ministers has been completed with no evidence to suggest the allegations were true.

(Jamaica Observer) Ten months after she was subjected to a dehumanising cavity search, verbal abuse, confinement, and deportation from the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados, Jamaican Shanique Myrie is still traumatised by her ordeal.

The state-owned Guyana Oil Company Limited (GUYOIL) is investigating the discharging of alleged tainted fuel from its dealers on the Essequibo Coast and has taken a series of steps.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Flip-flopping on her previous position on big government while she was in Opposition, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has named a 28-member executive that will cost taxpayers close to J$200 million per annum, at current rates, in salaries and allowances.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In three years Suritex, Staatsolie’s fuel distribution network, must hold the market leader position in Suriname.

(Barbados Nation) The Four Seasons Resort project seems to have hit another snag.

The proposal for the speaker of the National Assembly to rotate between A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) has been deemed ambiguous and unrealistic by representatives of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).           

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon departed Guyana  yesterday morning.

The defunct Rupununi River Bridge at Katoonarib will benefit from a $26 million upgrade – a sum that represents 162% of the cost to build it—almost four years after a section of the structure caved-in under the weight of an excavator.

By Frances Abraham with photos by Lakhram Bhagirat Located on the East Coast of Demerara is the village of Beterverwagting (BV) (a Dutch name meaning ‘Better Expectation”), better known to residents as ‘Barron.’

Although the PPP/C would have seen its votes dip significantly at the November 28 polls, PNCR-member-turned-PPP/C-supporter Joe Hamilton says it is erroneous to claim that the public endorsement of Donald Ramotar’s candidacy by figures previously associated with the opposition did not result in votes for the incumbent party.

The Commonwealth Observer Group has recommended that Guyana amends its electoral laws to provide for fixed ordinal lists so that voters know upfront which candidates are most likely to take up seats in the National Assembly.

Police are probing allegations that a policeman’s car knocked down a child and the police, at the station to which he is attached, refused to take a complaint.