Guyana News

After a long wait, opposition coalition APNU tonight released the names of the 26 persons who will take up its seats in Parliament and former General Secretary of the PNC Aubrey Norton is not on.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1200h.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is yet to name its Parliamentarians for the 10th Parliament slated for commencement in January almost three weeks after the release of elections results on December 1, and so far the selection process has left some less than placated.

The police say they are investigating the murder of miner Jermaine Mc Kenzie, 25 years of Grove Squatting Area, EBD, which occurred at about 0200h today at Blue Mountain, Mazaruni River.

Lloyd Henry was today charged with the murder of Carl Francis, 24, a miner who was stabbed to death at Issano Landing, Mazaruni River last Wednesday during a drunken row.

The media monitors report for the period November 28, 2011 to December 15 has castigated the state-owned Voice of Guyana for airing a report on the morning of the general election which gave the results of a poll done by Vishnu Bisram.

(Trinidad Guardian) A central businessman is one of two men charged with stealing a TT$1 million cashew nut consignment from the Port-of-Spain port who were granted bail yesterday in the amount of $200,000 each. Anthony

(Trinidad Express) Former prime minister Basdeo Panday will not be battling the United National Congress (UNC) internal elections, but his daughter Mickela and a team of young people are in the running.

(Trinidad Express) Former Trinidad and Tobago captain Daren Ganga was told before the Nokia Champions League (CLT20) Twenty20 Tournament in India in September that the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) wanted to remove him as skipper.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Natural Resources Minister Jim Hok is sad about the bauxite industry’s languishing existence.

The Bank of Baroda (Guyana) plans to expand its operations here with the establishment of a branch at Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara.

(Barbados Nation) Top figures of Neal & Massy in Trinidad and Tobago are flying into Barbados today for an important meeting with Government officials over the future of Almond Resorts Limited.

(Barbados Nation) Sobbing loudly that he did not want to go to prison, Barbados’ boxing star, Anderson Fitzgerald Emmanuel, was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds yesterday when he appeared in court charged with committing robbery.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Ricky Ponting’s  international future could be in doubt if he fails to make runs,  regardless of the former captain’s standing in the game,  Australia coach Mickey Arthur has said.

Brian Tiwari, Managing Director of BK International, blames the delays in the granting of tax and other concessions for hindering the start of some sea defence projects and he reiterated his company’s ability to manage the large European Union-funded contracts and to complete them by the contract date.

Three out of four persons who were charged following a huge cocaine bust in November and remanded to prison were released on their own recognizance yesterday, after their names mysteriously disappeared from the case jacket.

Berbician Diane Williams, is now in recovery after being the 11th beneficiary of a transplant programme offered at the Balwant Singh Hospital.

Digicel CEO Gregory Dean yesterday said his company is optimistic that the configuration of the new Parliament will lead to the long-anticipated liberalization of the telecommunications sector.

The bound and gagged body of a 74-year-old farmer was on Sunday discovered in his Mahaica, East Coast Demerara home and five persons were in custody for questioning up to last evening.

A Sophia man yesterday sustained minor injuries after he slammed into a vehicle in an attempt to escape the police moments after he was reportedly seen with a firearm on Cemetery Road, La Penitence.