Guyana News

DES MOINES, Iowa, (Reuters) – Republican  presidential candidate Mitt Romney squeaked out a victory in  Iowa’s first-in-the-nation nominating contest yesterday as  little-known rival Rick Santorum rode lingering conservative  unease to a surprise second-place finish.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Michael Clarke hit a brilliant  unbeaten 251 and Ricky Ponting his first hundred in two years as  Australia took control of the second test against India today, finishing the second day on an imposing 482 for four.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will soon occupy the multi-storeyed CLICO building on Camp Street as the asset that was sold to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is put to economic use as part of the effort at recovering its investment in the failed financial company.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has written the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) Dr.

Four persons were arrested by police after gunmen raided the Hollywood Bollywood Night Club on Lamaha Street, Newtown, Kitty on Monday night and an M15 rifle was also recovered.

The Antigua police yesterday named former Antigua Prime Minister Lester Bird and Guyanese-born diplomat Sir Ron Sanders among persons of interest in a probe into a fraud case and made a special appeal for Sanders to make himself available to the police on the island.

A Guyanese man living in Queens yesterday confessed to a series of firebombings in New York on New Year’s Day, including hurling a Molotov cocktail at an Islamic cultural centre in part because he wasn’t allowed to use its bathrooms, New York police said.

The Health Ministry is investigating the death of a 32-year old woman on Christmas night, two weeks after giving birth to a baby boy at the Suddie Hospital.

Despite a promise by the former education minister, the $293.5M state-of-the-art Leonora Secondary School is yet to be completed and construction works

A New York fourth-grader, son of a Guyanese woman, fatally choked on meatballs in a Bronx school cafeteria last December as staff looked on and did nothing to save him, his family and a witness told the New York Post.

Hits and Jams Entertainment, which is being targeted by a boycott organized by a section of the opposition, yesterday refused to discuss the impact on its New Year’s Eve “Night of Elegance” gala.

Police have released the man held in connection with the New Year’s Day murder of De Willem, West Coast Demerara pensioner Bebe Jahooral Banu, who was discovered in the bottom flat of her home.

A 21-year-old Victoria man was yesterday remanded when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of armed robbery.

Stabroek News columnist Stella Ramsaroop has launched Stella’s Sisterhood of Support and Service (S4) Foundation to create a network of women who are committed to helping other women.

The $427.5M Leonora Technical and Vocational Institute, commissioned by former Minister of Education Shaik Baksh last November, delayed its planned opening yesterday as it is still awaiting a power supply.

Political activists Frederick Kissoon and Mark Benschop are proposing that attorney Nigel Hughes be considered for Speaker, while saying that the opposition APNU and AFC need to move beyond the current nominees that have brought them to an impasse.

CGX Energy announces that it has made some additions and changes to its management team in order to better facilitate operations.

Search efforts continued yesterday for three missing Guyanese sailors and the cargo vessel MV Oliver L.

After receiving less than their monthly $18,000 salary in December, schools’ sweeper-cleaners are still awaiting a pay-hike promised to them by former president Bharrat Jagdeo.

A labourer, who was allegedly found with marijuana at the Takutu Bridge on Christmas Day, was yesterday remanded after being charged with narcotics trafficking.