Guyana News

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Wednesday presented a stock of 1,250 wheelchairs, walkers and canes to the Health Ministry, to assist persons with disabilities, particularly those who are unable to move about independently.

Traffic lights have been placed  at road intersections in Georgetown and environs to control competing flows of traffic and road users expect them to be working at all times but if they have been damaged they ought to be repaired as soon  as possible.

“I thought that it would have been madness this year again so I shop through.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has instituted a Christmas cleansing fee for vending on its parapets and other thoroughfares for the festive season.

(Trinidad Express) Haunted by what he participated in, one of the men allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Gasparillo businessman Naail Ali, said he wanted to clear his conscience, so he led police to Ali’s bones.

(Trinidad Express) China Investment Corporation (CIC) has signed off on an agreement to purchase ten per cent of the shares of liquefied natural gas producer Atlantic at Point Fortin.

(Trinidad Express) Another major trade union has accepted Government’s five per cent wage offer bringing to an end a crippling shutdown of operations at the main cargo port in Port of Spain.

(Barbados Nation) Tough financial times have forced a blackout of Christmas lights at the Robinson residence in Warrens, St Thomas, this year.

(Reuters) – Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to rule that financier Allen Stanford has regained competence and can stand trial over an alleged $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme.

(Barbados Nation) There has been a shake-up in management at the financially-troubled CLICO International Life Insurance (CIL).

(Trinidad Guardian) Soft ball cricket, an art of the sport developed in Guyana is now big among Caribbean nationals living in New York.

ST. JOHNS, Antigua, (Reuters) – Two men convicted of  killing a Welsh couple honeymooning on the Caribbean island of  Antigua were sentenced today to three consecutive  life sentences in prison.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations  said today it was investigating allegations of  assault and attempted homicide by peacekeepers in Haiti, the  latest charges of misconduct to be leveled against the  blue-helmeted force.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Grammy-winning R&B singer  Etta James is terminally ill, her live-in physician said in an  interview this week that confirmed reports of the singer’s  fading health.

Candidate at the recently concluded general elections, Desmond Trotman has moved to the courts challenging the constitutionality of the controversial benefits bill which was passed by the Jagdeo administration and signed into law in 2009.

Businessman Gerry Gouveia has written APNU presidential candidate David Granger over two noisy demonstrations by the coalition outside one of his properties in Kingston saying that he is extremely disappointed that such disorder and disrespect was being allowed.

The police say they are investigating the death of porter Clive Chisholm, 43 years of Tucville, Georgetown, which occurred at about 1700h yesterday at the Haag Bosch Landfill Site, Eccles, EBD.

(Barbados Nation) A total of five ruling party Members of Parliament (MPs) have now responded publicly to Tuesday’s front page article in THE DAILY NATION that listed them among a group of 11 seeking an “urgent audience” with Prime Minister Freundel Stuart to discuss his leadership.

(Trinidad Express) Nine private sector/civil society groups have written to Planning and Economy Minister Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie, expressing concern that the request for proposals (RFP) and tendering process for the development of Invaders Bay is still on.

(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL) and Internet shopping delivery company E Zone are teaming up to enhance CAL’s express small package service, JetPack, into a more “inter-Caribbean service”.