Guyana News

A  memorial service for Bollywood legend Dev Anand, who passed away in London last week, will be held at the Mehboob Studio in Mumbai on December 15, his son Suneil Anand said according to the Press Trust of India.

At about 1300h. yesterday the police said that ranks of a Mobile Police Patrol stopped and searched a man at Jumbie Creek, Mahdia, and found an unlicensed .32 pistol in his possession.

At about 1030h today police say they responded to a report received that three men on two motor cycles had robbed a mini-bus driver at Beterverwagting Public Road, ECD.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A gunman killed a police  officer and another person today at Virginia Tech  University, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in  U.S.

INDORE, India, (Reuters) – Virender Sehwag (219)  blasted the highest individual score in 50-over cricket to  secure India’s comprehensive 153-run series-clinching victory  over West Indies in the fourth one-dayer today.

GECOM this afternoon said that it has dispatched a DVD Rom containing Statements of Poll from all 2076 polling stations to the four parties which contested the November 28 general elections.

(Trinidad Express) In a new twist regarding the hosting of the fourth Caricom/Cuba Summit, the US Embassy in Trinidad is reporting that the request for a special licence by hotel chain Hilton to accommodate the conference was received a little over a week before the event and was not declined but was still “pending”.

(Jamaica Observer) One thousand jobs will be created when the Convergys Corporation opens its first call centre in Jamaica next year, Dr Christopher Tufton, the minister of industry, investment and commerce, announced yesterday at a press briefing in Kingston.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – ‘All hen houses are full right now.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday sought to assure media practitioners who have come under attack from Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) platforms in Manchester and Portland that his Government supports democracy and freedom of speech.

LIAT today said  that the sick-out action by pilots, represented by the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA), is continuing on a limited basis.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians may be forced to live with a 17.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) permanently.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s cricket governing  body will recommend its entire board step down in accordance  with an independent review that criticised its structure as  being riven with conflicts of interests.

By Mark McGowan and Johann Earle President Donald Ramotar recently met with opposition groups A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) and pushed for Ralph Ramkarran to be returned as Speaker of the National Assembly, but neither of them is in support of the proposal.

A 70-year-old rice farmer of No. 48 Village, Corentyne, accused of murdering his reputed wife was remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Krishndat Persaud at the No.

Chairman of opposition coalition A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) David Granger believes that the cabinet recently named by President Donald Ramotar reflects a “tightening of control by PPP apparatchiks,” saying that there was no attempt to bring in fresh faces and ideas.

A bandit bit the rings off a Laing Avenue housewife’s fingers during a home invasion on Tuesday night but he was arrested after she spotted him in the bank less than a day after.

Supporters of opposition coalition APNU yesterday protested at the Home Affairs Ministry over the actions of police as well as at the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) over its conduct of the recent general elections.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday said that police ranks will take necessary action against any illegal activities, as the police force defended the actions of a squad that opened fire on A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) protestors and injured several persons.

A 15-year-old lad who was charged with robbery with violence committed on a 16-year-old girl  appeared yesterday  before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.