Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) Should they return to the Beverly Hills, Laventille, area after being relocated to San Juan several years ago, death would be imminent.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) president Dinanath Ramnarine warned the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) against imposing sanctions against the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) that will negatively affect players’ ability to practise their trade or profession.

Opposition parties APNU and AFC are still deadlocked over who should be the Speaker of the National Assembly, while the government yesterday voiced its concern over the ongoing negotiations between the two parties outside of the agreed tripartite engagement.

A dedicated channel airing China’s English Language CCTV9 will come on air next year, fulfilling an agreement that had its genesis since 2004.

The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) says its call for the boycott of several business organisations has worked and critical issues, including the appointment of a new police commissioner, will remain on the front burner in the new year.

Approximately one year to the date he was sacked as advisor to the then President Bharat Jagdeo, veteran PPP member Navin Chandarpal was reinstated in the same capacity by President Donald Ramotar.

President Donald Ramotar and all ministers of government will be present at the National Stadium to witness the finals of this year’s Kashif and Shanghai football tournament tomorrow and to publicly demonstrate their support to the organizers, who have been subjected to a boycott organized by opposition supporters.

Hits and Jams Entertainment’s ‘Night of Elegance’ will be staged at the Promenade Gardens this evening, after government intervened to allow the use of the location which was denied by Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 12 years in jail after he was found guilty of trying to kill his common-law wife and attempting suicide.

A family outing to the St Cuthbert’s Mission along the Mahaica River on Thursday ended tragically when 13-year-old Anand ‘Joey’ Ramdeo of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara drowned after the canoe he was paddling in capsized in the river.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs (MoAA) has concluded the distribution of flood relief to victims affected by July’s flood in the Rupununi, with Minister Pauline Sukhai indicating that over $64 million was spent in the process.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs (MoAA) will be pushing ahead with its Hinterland Electrification Project in 2012 with 10,000 more solar panels expected in the country within the first quarter of the new year.

After spending almost three months at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), 10-year-old Sameer Shamshudin was welcomed home by his family on Christmas Eve and is said to be happily adjusting.

When Guyanese Kris Ally decided to organise the inaugural all-ages NYE 2K12 Show & Dance, to be held in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada tonight, he had the events of his past which led to a criminal conviction firmly in mind.

Ansa McAl yesterday officially launched its 2012 Carib Soca Monarch competition, offering a $1 million first prize.

Jamaican dancehall artiste Konshens and reggae singer Alaine will perform live tonight at the Princess Hotel Poolside.

Jamaican crooner Dobby Dobson is here to usher Lindeners into the New Year with a live performance at the L and L Social Club in the mining town tonight – New Year’s Eve.

The residents of Kumaka, Mabaruma will soon get a new tarmac at their market in the North West District of Region One.

Andrew Morris was yesterday sentenced to one month in jail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton, who told him he needed “a wake-up call” after he pleaded guilty to abusing his wife with a piece of wood.

A man was yesterday sentenced to three months in jail by Magistrate Hazel Octave–Hamilton after he admitted stealing A man who stole a woman’s cellular phone while visiting her home was yesterday sentenced to a three-month jail term.