Guyana News

CGX Energy Inc today announced that the Ocean Saratoga semi-submersible drilling rig which will search for oil in Guyana’s waters departed the Gulf of Mexico on January 1st,and is now under tow to the Guyana-Suriname Basin to drill the Company’s Eagle-1 well.

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.

Four of six suspected gunmen who raided the Bollywood Night Club last night were held by police who surprised them on the premises and a M15 rifle was recovered.

After several weeks of assessing Statements of Poll (SoPs) handed over by GECOM, APNU on December 30, 2011 wrote elections commission Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally saying that it needed access to the original hard copies for further verification.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The Commonwealth, Australia  and New Zealand called on Fiji’s military ruler, Commodore Frank  Bainimarama, to hold credible elections and restore democracy  after he announced an end to emergency laws imposed since 2009.

(Reuters) – San Antonio   Spurs guard Manu Ginobili   fractured his left shooting hand during a loss to  the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday and is out indefinitely,  the team said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British court today  convicted two men of the 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen  Lawrence, a landmark case that exposed racism in the London  police and led to a change in the law allowing suspects to be  tried twice for the same crime.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago’s latest unemployment figures show a 0.5 per cent drop in the number of people looking for jobs.

(Trinidad Express) Sunday was the third time that Marcus Cooper, a construction worker who lived at Madingo Road, Princes Town, was shot.

(Trinidad Express) Finance Minister Winston Dookeran will act as Prime Minister during Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s trip to India this month.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – From January through September 2011 some 101,578 Dutch tourists have visited Suriname, over 30,000 more than last year.

The Antigua police today 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.

(Barbados Nation) An Irishman socialite with an upscale villa in Barbados, Breifne O’Brien, has been accused of bilking investors in a Ponzi scheme.

(Barbados Nation) The economic recession is taking a toll on local bands, several of which did not perform at any of the massive shows on Old Year’s Night.

CGX Energy Inc today announced that the Ocean Saratoga semi-submersible drilling rig which will search for oil in Guyana’s waters departed the Gulf of Mexico on January 1st,and is now under tow to the Guyana-Suriname Basin to drill the Company’s Eagle-1 well.

The house of a Guyanese family was one of five buildings attacked by a suspected serial firebomber in New York on Sunday night.

(Barbados Nation) A football tournament came to an abrupt end on New Year’s Night after a shooting incident left one man dead and another – up to late yesterday – fighting for his life.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – James Pattinson took four wickets  as Australia bundled India out for 191 on the opening day of the  second test today, before coming through a top order crisis  of their own to finish a frenetic day on 116 for three.

The Kashif & Shanghai Organisation, reeling from the effects of an opposition boycott call and football fraternity feud between the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) is confident these will soon blow over and fans will be forgiving and return to the spectator stands.

The semi-nude body of 66-year-old Bebe Jahooral Banu was discovered in the bottom flat of her lot 5 ‘A’ De Willem North, West Coast Demerara home on New Year’s Day at around 15:00 hrs with a piece of cloth wrapped around her throat.