Guyana News

The St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) came storming back into government in yesterday’s general election, five years after it was swept aside by the United Workers’ Party (UWP), the Caribbean Media Corporation reported last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister John Sandy says if sufficient evidence is not gathered pertaining to 13 detainees, who were arrested in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three senior Government ministers, they will be released.

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally said he is hoping to have final results of the elections available by tomorrow evening, but stopped short of committing himself to a time for an official announcement.

The RUSAL-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc today said it had made buses available to transport its workers to polling stations.

The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) on Monday reported that two earthquakes had jolted several Caribbean countries today, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation.

NAIROBI/KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – A Kenyan court today ordered the government to arrest Sudan’s President Omar  al-Bashir, wanted by The Hague on genocide charges, prompting  Sudan to order the expulsion of Kenya’s ambassador and summon  its own envoy from Nairobi.

Differently-abled Seesankar Puran being lifted into a polling station at Tain, Corentyne today.

Presidential Advisor on Empowerment, Odinga Lumumba was this afternoon accused of pushing a Presiding Officer (PO) after she refused to allow a PPP/C polling agent, who did not have any identification, to enter her station.

Commentator and chartered accountant Christopher Ram will tonight host a three-hour elections special beginning at 9 pm on CNS Channel Six.

Head of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Observer Mission Professor Gordon Shirley is hopeful that voter numbers at the 2011 general and regional elections could reach record numbers and is pleased with the eagerness shown among the electorate, half of which is estimated to have voted by midday.

The incumbent PPP/C party says it is generally satisfied at the conduct of the polls so far in spite of a few “isolated instances” of procedural breaches.

  The presiding officer at a polling station in Berbice has been fired for distributing tendered ballots to voters, Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman Dr.

PPP/C Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar displays his inked finger after voting at the Plaisance school today.

Voting at the Mackenzie Sports Club, Linden today.                Chairman of Region 10, Mortimer Mingo (right) casting his ballot today in Linden.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2130h last night at Borlam, Corentyne, and which resulted in the death of Raghua Mohamed, 23 years of Good Banana Land, East Canje, Berbice.

(Trinidad Guardian) CAL’s profits were used to pay for the first of nine ATR’s the company welcomed two weeks ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that the assassination plot against her and three cabinet ministers might have been “personal in some respect,” but it was aimed at totally destabilising T&T.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s engineers have been advised to do all they can to prevent “quacks” from being allowed to practise engineering.

(Jamaica Observer) Reggae artiste Fantan Mojah is today recovering from injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident over the weekend.

British High Commissioner to Guyana Andrew Ayre is among the observer teams in Linden and according to him things are going pretty smoothly.