Guyana News

LIAT today advised that all pilots who were scheduled to work this morning, Wednesday December 07, 2011, have called in sick.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – If everything goes according to plan, the Kaloti Suriname Mint House will be producing by late 2012, early 2013.

(Trinidad Express) US-based hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has been denied a special licence from the US Government to allow for the IV Caricom/Cuba Summit to be held at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre with visiting Cuban President Raul Castro.

INDORE, India, (Reuters) – In-form West Indies  batsman Darren Bravo has been ruled out of tomorrow’s  penultimate one-day international against India with a hamstring  problem, the team’s captain Darren Sammy said.

Riot police fired rubber bullets at protestors in an illegal march in the city yesterday as APNU continued to press for the release of statements of poll from last week’s elections, copies of which will now be released following private sector intervention.

Police yesterday announced a zero-tolerance policy towards unlawful marches, after ranks fired rubber bullets at protestors who were ordered to disperse after they failed to get permission to march in the city.

By Marcelle Thomas A seven-year-old boy was among several persons who were injured after police fired rubber bullets to disperse an illegal protest march in the city yesterday.

By Johann Earle Attorney James Bond and retired Brigadier Edward Collins yesterday said that they were only marching peacefully when they were shot in the back by police with rubber bullets.

Following a meeting with the private sector on Monday, GECOM agreed to hand over scanned Statements of Poll (SoPs) to the parties which contested the November 28 general elections but this decision was only made public last evening, hours after several APNU protesters were injured by police rubber bullets during a demonstration for the verification of SoP’s.

Eight students and a teacher of St Sidwell’s Primary School, in Georgetown, were yesterday taken to hospital for treatment after police fired tear gas at the nearby Square of the Revolution.

Magistrate Sueanna Lovell remanded a 34-year-old father of four accused of attempting to murder his two-year-old daughter, when he yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is appealing to consumers to pay outstanding water services charges, as it has mobilised its disconnection crew from today.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) yesterday condemned the police force over the shooting of protesters in the city with rubber bullets.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says that from all indications there was no foul play involved in the death of the three Aishalton school boys and investigators are awaiting a preliminary report to determine the way forward.

Linden Lord, the Guyanese doctor residing in Jamaica who was shot outside his Mandeville home in October, is said to be in a stable condition in a US hospital.

Magistrate Sueanna Lovell ordered proprietor Tie Sheng Ye called “George” to pay for the cost of a Blackberry cellular phone that he destroyed, when he yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s court to answer to the charge of malicious damage to property.

The finals of the Bollywood segment of the Jingle and Song Competition is slated for Friday, and Chief Executive Officer of GT&T  Yog Mahadeo told this newspaper that the response received thus far from the public has been phenomenal.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company in collaboration with the Education Ministry yesterday launched the ‘Know your Stuff’ Literature Quiz Competition which is expected to begin in January when schools reopen.

Transparency International Institute Guyana is joining the international community to mark the 2011 International Anti-Corruption Day initiated by the United Nations (UN) in its campaign to combat corruption globally.

Despite overwhelming positive coverage of the incumbent by the state-owned newspaper, the print media did not commit any ethical breaches of the media code for the elections in the almost month-long campaign period leading up to the general elections, according to the Guyana Elections Commission Media Monitoring Unit (MMU).