Guyana News

GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) – A man suspected of opening fire on a family Christmas celebration was dressed in a Santa Claus suit when he killed six people and then himself, police said today.

Aspects of the Guyana-Norway deal could come under review when the new Parliament convenes but how this will impact the agreement signed in 2009 remains unclear.

(Barbados Nation) Over 3 000 passengers should be arriving in Barbados out of Canada over the next four months on a new chartered flight.

(Trinidad Express) A member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force was among two people gunned down while liming at a bar at Valencia early yesterday.

Citing court documents, the New York Post says the US is arguing that businessman Ed Ahmad recruited promising Guyanese cricketers, lined them up with cricket clubs and used them as straw buyers in the mortgage scheme that he has been charged in.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) faces bankruptcy proceedings in 2012 should it fail to find a solution to its legal battle against 13 Soca Warriors from the 2006 World Cup team.

Police say that at about 2300h last night food vendor Babalyn Cozier, 48 years, and Trenton Benn, 57 years, were at home at Goedverwagting, ECD, when two men armed with firearms entered through an open door and held them up.

Police say that at about 2000h last night, Insurance Agent Andrew Correia, 56 years of ‘D’ Field, Sophia, was walking along the roadway at ‘A’ Field, Sophia, when he observed two suspicious looking men standing on the road.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0125h today  on the Mon Repos Public Road, ECD, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Naresh Khemraj, 21 years of Pigeon Island, ECD.

A fireman was fatally shot during a robbery at his Alness, Corentyne home last night.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – Islamist militant group Boko Haram  said it planted bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches  in Nigeria, one of which killed at least 27 people on the  outskirts of the capital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Professor Trevor Munroe, executive director of National Integrity Action Limited (NIAL), lauded the five corporate companies that have disclosed their monetary contributions to the island’s two main political parties.

(Barbados Nation) Though police are reporting no upsurge in crime during the Christmas season, cellphone theft and “cash-for-gold” promotions have developed into a major headache for law enforcement authorities.

In what is a new dimension to Guyana’s political landscape, the recent elections results have created a unique situation where both the President and the combined opposition can trigger another election before the five-year constitutional deadline.

The body of a beer garden owner was yesterday discovered in her home aback her shop at Public Road Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara, and from all appearances the incident seems to be a murder/robbery.

Although Christmas is a time of joy and spending quality time with loved ones, it has found Carlann Chester-Welch without her husband, her daughter without her father, and a family without justice.

The body of a man clad in a pair of blue jeans and a beige t-shirt that was discovered on Monday December 19 in the canal at Prospect, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in front a popular drinking bar called the ‘Island’, has been identified as 55-year-old Zokho Persaud Premraj of 102 Grove Post Office Street, EBD.

Small miners in Omai, Region 8 are being threatened with eviction in order to facilitate a large foreign mining company with which the government intends to sign an agreement.

A 42-year-old man was burnt to death when a fire of unknown origin destroyed his Corentyne home early yesterday morning.

Two persons perished in an early morning fire yesterday morning at 38 Public Road, Kitty after they failed to escape the flames, while the occupants of an adjoining house which was also razed managed to get out but saved nothing but the clothes on their backs.