Guyana News

A Queens, New York judge yesterday sentenced a Guyanese private eye to 32 years in prison, calling him a “diabolical conniver and sinister manipulator” who framed his ex-girlfriend for robbery after she accused him of rape.

Distribution under the Government’s  One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme continued yesterday when residents in Kitty/ Campbellville, Lodge and Sophia received their computers.

Almost half a year since devastating floods, Region Nine is “back on-stream,” according Regional Executive Officer (REO) Ronald Harsawack.

Dan Kissoon started working at the Demerara Company at Diamond as a barefooted 15-year-old boy who ran errands in the General Stores and worked his way up to producing some of the finest alcohols ever made in Guyana.

A Queens, New York man, said to be Guyanese, confessed on Tuesday to a New Year’s Day firebombing spree — claiming a personal vendetta drove him to throwing the Molotov cocktails, police said, according to yesterday’s New York Daily News.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the attempted murder of Police Constables Rajindra Singh and Damintra Indrapaul, for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Anthony Watson and Basil Morgan stand accused, will continue on Friday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke  reached 300 runs just after lunch on the third day of the second  test against India today, the 25th triple century in test  cricket.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – India batsman Virat Kohli was  fined half of his match fee on Thursday for responding to  barracking from the crowd by gesturing at them with his middle  finger on day two of the second test against Australia.

(Jamaica Gleaner) This morning’s motor vehicle accident along the Old Harbour Road in St.

The Office of the President this afternoon defended Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali over a report in the Kaieteur News which stated that he was building a “mansion” at Leonora, West Demerara believed to be worth $300M.

A Guyanese private detective in Queens, New York who raped his ex-girlfriend, also a Guyanese, and then framed her for a series of fictional crimes was sentenced to the maximum of 32 years in prison today, the New York Times reported.

BRUSSELS/TEHRAN, (Reuters) – European  governments have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian  oil, EU diplomats said today, dealing a potentially heavy  blow to Tehran that crowns new Western economic sanctions  imposing real pain just months before an Iranian election.

(Trinidad Express) A man who two years ago survived being shot five times, was killed by a bullet to the head near his home in San Fernando on Monday night.

(Jamaica Observer) A woman was chopped and burnt to death in Clarendon yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) NEW YORK, USA — A permanent memorial to honour Jamaican nationals who died in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 will be erected at the British Garden at Hanover Square, in lower Manhattan.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The talismanic Christopher Gayle, who earlier this year led Jamaica to the regional Super50 title, will miss the Caribbean Twenty20 due to the fact that he was denied a release by his club, the Sydney Thunder, in the Australia KFC Twenty20 Big Bash League, which is slated to end on January 28.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two white men were jailed today for murdering a black teenager in London 1993, a  landmark case which exposed the “institutional racism” of the  capital’s police in an official inquiry into the initial botched  investigation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hyacinth Ford-Dryden, the woman suspected in the trafficking of several Jamaican children to the United States, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A Queens, New York man, said to be Guyanese, confessed yesterday to a New Year’s Day firebombing spree — claiming a personal vendetta drove him to throwing the Molotov cocktails, police said, according to today’s New York Daily News.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname’s exports to Cuba might get another dimension in the times ahead.