Guyana News

Presidential candidate for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David Granger urged his supporters to continue the battle to put an end to the PPP [People’s Progressive Party] regime and called on them to spread the word about the coalition.

Police have arrested three villagers for the assault on three Buxton teens on Wednesday at Non Pareil, East Coast of Demerara, which is being blamed on a misunderstanding.

Junior Bourne was committed yesterday to stand trial in the High Court for the 2010 Cool Square Bar murder of Canada-based Guyanese  Rawle Harding.

A 19-year-old man was remanded to prison after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a  charge of unlawful and malicious wounding.

The subsidiary of the Chinese company that won the contract to build the Marriott Hotel here has been at the centre of much controversy in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago with allegations that it benefitted from favourable treatment from the previous Patrick Manning-led administration.

Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that the ministry has surpassed its house lot distribution target for 2011, at a ‘One Stop Shop’ where 240 more families were given lots in the new Leonora housing scheme.

Minister Shaik Baksh says government has “implemented significant reforms” in the education sector over the last five years and has reaped the benefits with top NGSA and CXC scores, while dismissing calls from the opposition political parties for the revamping of the sector as “uninformed statements.”

The AFC says it will simplify and reform the tax regime on motor vehicles and give special concessionary rates to the transportation sector on new vehicles.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is donating an additional $50 million grant to expand access to free, quality education for all Haitian children, in keeping with education reform Haiti launched in 2010.

Cabinet has declared Monday, November 28, the day designated for National and Regional Elections as a public holiday.

(Barbados Nation) While millions of families unite for a Thanksgiving feast today (Nov.

PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago Prime  Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said today the country’s  law enforcement officials foiled a plot involving army soldiers  and police officers to assassinate her and other government  officials.

The subsidiary of the Chinese company that won the contract to build the Marriott Hotel here has been at the centre of much controversy in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago with allegations that it benefitted from favourable treatment from the previous Patrick Manning-led administration.

(Barbados Nation) The LIAT pilot who was taken into custody earlier today has been charged.

(Trinidad Guardian) The board of the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) has sacked its general manager, Glenford Cyrille.

(Trinidad Express) The National Security Alert has been raised after security forces unearthed an alleged assassination plot against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three senior members of her Cabinet.

(Jamaica Observer) The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) is developing a Primary Exit Examination, Professor of Research, Measurement and Evaluation at the University of the West Indies’  School of Education, Dr Stafford Griffith, has disclosed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The media fraternity has lost another of its veteran practitioners who had contributed significantly to the profession.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With concerns lingering that money from criminal elements could get into the hands of politicians to finance their election campaigns, and fears about the influence that some financial backers of political parties could have on the governance of the country, most Jamaicans want to know who is paying the piper.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The government wants to bring order to the so-called Back-Track route in the second half of 2012.