Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) president Dinanath Ramnarine is confident that former Windies captain Chris Gayle will be vindicated of all wrongdoing when his dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is finally settled.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – An international arbitration panel has awarded U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N)

Three Guyanese sailors who left Trinidad for home on their cargo vessel last Wednesday are missing and local and regional maritime officials have mounted a search for them.

With the opposition feeling that there are still too many unanswered questions surrounding the Amaila Falls Hydropower project, the entire project is likely to undergo scrutiny in the National Assembly in the days ahead.

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) continues to be governed by a leadership council represented by its four founding parties but the implementation of a more formal structure is currently being examined, vice-Chairman Dr Rupert Roopnaraine says.

In his first New Year message to the nation President Donald Ramotar said that the November 28 elections had created a new political situation in the country, but this provided an opportunity to work together to take the country forward.

There were 23 murders during the last two months of last year.

Public life can be difficult for the most resilient among us, so as a lighthearted New Year’s offering to some of our hard-working officials the Sunday Stabroek team has the whole of 2012 mapped out for them in the form of their 2012 horoscopes.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Deryck Josiah will now head “B” Division (Berbice), according to divisional postings released by the police force yesterday.

President Donald Ramotar has congratulated Jamaica’s Prime Minister designate Portia Simpson-Miller on her recent victory at the polls, while indicating an interest in strengthening friendly relations.

While many across Guyana spent Christmas in the company of family and friends, the relatives and close friends of murdered University of Guyana student Anthony Ting-a-Kee spent theirs in tears, reflecting on his life.

The Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) has written Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony, stating that they will be following the directive of the West Indies Cricket Board as it relates to the governments installation of an Interim management Committee.

Under the new reality of a minority government, the opposition parties believe that there should be widespread consultations on the constitution of state boards, including that of sugar corporation GuySuCo.

Local airline Air Services Limited (ASL) and Ogle Airport Incorporated (OAI) are still in talks to settle the ramming of the airport gate and the Transport Minister Robeson Benn says that failing this government would intervene.

Service, currency, quality and affordable prices are the ingredients which have kept one of Guyana’s oldest and largest businesses going 60 years after it came into existence, according to its Executive Chairman Sattaur Gafoor.

Police said that during yesterday they conducted a drug eradication operation along the Lower Berbice River.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan  declared a state of emergency today in parts of Nigeria  plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency, and ordered shut the  borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger in the northeast.

By Mark McGowan With the opposition feeling that there are still too many unanswered questions surrounding the Amaila Falls Hydropower project, the entire project is likely to undergo scrutiny in the National Assembly in the days ahead.

Today the Guyana Police Force announced several new postings at command level which take effect from tomorrow.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The team from the Organisation of American States (OAS) that observed Jamaica’s parliamentary elections on Thursday has proposed several measures it said could improve the country’s electoral machinery.