Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Local heavyweight boxer and robbery accused Anderson “Tootsie” Emmanuel was yesterday granted bail just in time to spend Christmas at home with his family.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Football Union (CFU) presidential candidate, Trinidadian Harold Taylor, has declared the recent decision by 26 Caribbean football presidents to form a normalisation committee to execute various tasks on behalf of CFU as illegal.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia named the following team to face India in the first test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Dec.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba, which is preparing for a visit by Pope Benedict XVI next spring, will release 2,900 prisoners in the coming days for humanitarian reasons, including some convicted of crimes against “the security of the state,” the Cuban government said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Police commissioner, Owen Ellington, has praised the Westmoreland police for their efforts which led to the conviction of Andre Brown otherwise called Taliban.

Amid deep and prolonged strife among local cricket groups, the Sport Ministry this evening unveiled an interim management body for cricket with renowned former Guyanese and West Indian cricketer Clive Lloyd as the head of the team.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The S&P 500 turned  positive for the year and closed out its third week of gains in  four today as equities extended their rally after  a string of unexpectedly strong economic data.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Philip, the 90-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, had heart surgery to ease a blocked artery today after being rushed to hospital with chest pains as he prepared to celebrate Christmas with the royal family.

(Trinidad Guardian) For the second day yesterday workers on the Port of Point Lisas failed to turn up crippling operations. Workers

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley must provide evidence to support his claim that Government was bullying contractors into financing her nation-wide Christmas toy drive for over 50,000 children. Speaking

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad-born woman will spend Christmas in a British jail after being found guilty of paying her gay hairdresser to become her husband in an attempt to avoid deportation.

(Trinidad Express) Two men who were asleep at their Canada Plannings Apartment at Marcano Quarry, Laventille, were shot dead by seven gunmen early yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr Gladstone Hutchinson, has commended the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for its assistance in addressing the impact of the “brain drain” on Jamaica.

(Trinidad Guardian) The deadline for artistes to submit their entries for the 2012 National Chutney Soca Monarch, which was originally set for the December 23, has been extended to January 6.

The PPP/C says that the opposition’s tactics on the selecting of a Speaker for the new Parliament shows a lack of sincerity which does not bode well for future cooperation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With the issue of gay rights being moved to the centre of the election campaign, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for West Portland, Daryl Vaz, on Wednesday night told a party mass rally in St Mary that his constituents have already told him to say no to the repealing of the buggery law.

(Barbados Nation) The recently introduced demotion and promotion system has given Division One cricket in Barbados a new lease on life.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rihanna’s single “We Found  Love” on Thursday held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100  singles chart for the eighth straight week, making it the  singer’s longest-running No.

(Barbados Nation) With one working day to go before Christmas, some Barbadians have been put on notice that they may not get their imported gift-laden barrels in time.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Forty people were killed  and 100 wounded in two blasts which struck Damascus today,  Syria’s Dunia television channel reported, quoting its  correspondent on the scene.