Guyana News

Children at the Guyana Red Cross Society Convalescent Home in D’Urban Backlands benefited from a Boxing Day visit by the United States Navy construction battalions the Seabees.

Government’s plan to establish a specialist hospital at Liliendaal, on the East Coast of Demerara, has raised questions as to why local hospitals were not seemingly considered for upgrades instead and why taxpayers’ money is being used to prepare the site.

Workers at Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated, mainly owned by RUSAL, are to get thinner pay-packets whenever they are about to go on vacation because the company has decided to stop paying them vacation allowance.

The Local Government and Regional Development Ministry plans closer collaboration with other ministries and agencies next year in order to cut costs at the local government level while advancing development at the community level.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Clico Policyholders Group (CPG) yesterday said that it has received several complaints from Clico policyholders who have not received either the TT$75,000 cash payment or the confirmation letters of bond holdings (allotment letters).

(Trinidad Guardian) Attorneys-at-law Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard are among 16 who will be appointed Senior Counsel (SC) by President George Maxwell Richards today.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica’s ruling party conceded  defeat in national elections last night, as preliminary  official results showed the party of opposition leader and  former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller scoring a landslide  victory.

(Reuters) – Former FIFA vice-president Jack  Warner said he was sold the World Cup television rights for  Trinidad and Tobago for as little as $1 in return for supporting  FIFA president Sepp Blatter in soccer elections.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has scheduled a directors meeting in St.

Despite mounting the PPP/C platform for the recent general elections, Collin Croal, the former Permanent Secretary (PS) within the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, has been appointed the new PS within the Ministry of Local Government.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The BBC has ignited its  second sexism spat in the space of a month by choosing a panda  as one of its 12 female faces of the year.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s official. The Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange is the fifth best-performing stock market in the world for 2011, according to a report yesterday in the Business Insider publication, which stated that most equity investors around the world were “licking their wounds from a tough 2011.”

(Jamaica Observer) Andrew Holness, at nightfall today, could find himself the first leader born post-Independence and the youngest elected prime minister at 39 years old, if the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) finds favour with the Jamaican electorate.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The umbrella organization of Chinese in Suriname, Suriname Chinese United Association (SCUA), is shocked by reports about human trafficking of Chinese in Suriname.

(Trinidad Express) Multiple charges of murder and that of causing grievous bodily harm were yesterday read to the man accused of setting a Laventille apartment on fire which resulted in the deaths of four people, including a ten-month-old baby and two-year-old child.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In a presidential resolution, President Desi Bouterse has granted a pardon to Romano Meriba, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for manslaughter.

(Trinidad Express) Police are probing an incident in which two sons of Local Government Minister Chandresh Sharma were beaten during an incident while attending a poolside party at the Hilton Trinidad, St Ann’s on Tuesday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s makeshift pace  attack performed above and beyond expectations today,  tearing through India’s formidable batting unit to propel the  hosts to an emphatic 122-run victory in the first test.

Although the AFC is continuing to lobby for Moses Nagamootoo to be Speaker when the new Parliament is convened, party leader Raphael Trotman yesterday insisted that it will not try to seek support from the PPP/C.

Saying that the final sugar production figure for the year is bad news, Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) President Komal Chand is calling for expertise to be brought into the sugar corporation to save the industry.