Guyana News

Bandits on Friday broke into the Vlissengen Road home of a Canadian businesswoman carting off an undisclosed sum of cash and millions of dollars in gold and diamond jewellery.

The production of plantain is fluctuating owing to the Black Sigatoka disease, which sees the produce deformed and abnormal with lower bunches being produced; this is affecting the local market, influencing price and causing a strain on the common man.

Police say that at about 0645h. today, workers on a foreign registered vessel moored at the Demerara Shipping Company Wharf, Water Street, Georgetown, observed a haversack concealed under a built-in crane on the boat.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0220h today at Best Village, WCD, during which Rambharose Ramjewan, 52 years, along with his wife and daughter, were attacked and robbed by three men armed with a firearm, a hammer and a length of metal.

(Jamaica Observer) Four Members of Parliament (MPs) — two each from the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) and the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) — were yesterday ordered to pay a fine of J$10,000 each, or serve 30 days in prison, for breaches of the Parliamentary Integrity of Members Act.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse has criticized the Ministry of Zonal Planning, Land and Forest Management (RGB) harshly.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Yesterday, judge Alida Johanns acquitted Edward van Wijk of complicity in the murder of Aviation Department head John Veira.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry has been stripped of the responsibility for the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme, JDIP.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – International Cricket  Council (ICC) President Sharad Pawar today joined the  Indian cricket board (BCCI) in dismissing former player Vinod  Kambli’s claims of possible corruption in India’s 1996 World Cup  semi-final loss to Sri Lanka.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa-born  former England all-rounder Basil D’Oliveira, once the subject of  one of cricket’s biggest controversies, has died at 80, Cricket  South Africa said today.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The International  Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Office said today it had  received confirmation of the arrest of Muammar Gaddafi’s son,  Saif al-Islam, from Libya’s Ministry of Justice.

By Johann Earle Riot police were called out to a PPP/C meeting last evening at Stabroek Market Square, where three persons were arrested and others were forcibly removed after being accused of disruptive behaviour.

With nine days more to go for the general elections, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) last evening launched its party’s manifesto in New Amsterdam with promises of reducing poverty.

The Government of Guyana yesterday inked a $1B gold mining agreement with Guyana Goldfields Inc through which the company foresees 4,000 to 9,000 jobs being created for its Aurora, Region 7 project.

Two prominent New Amsterdam businessmen, allegedly held with 10.1 kilos (equivalent to over 22 pounds) of cocaine on Monday, were on Thursday charged with trafficking in narcotics.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Dr. Steve Surujbally yesterday denied that the voter education drive is behind schedule, saying that everything is going according to its plan as the date for elections nears.

Mocha Arcadia residents yesterday blocked the community’s only access road to protest its destruction by heavy duty machinery used for construction in several nearby housing schemes.

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) says it has secured a contract for a modern terminal for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, according to a report in yesterday’s Jamaica Observer.

Three helicopters, travelling from Guyana to French Guiana, made an emergency landing in Coronie on Thursday.

The three external observer missions that signaled their intention to monitor Guyana’s November 28 elections have started their preparations.