Guyana News

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

Former Finance Minister Asgar Ally, who had an acrimonious falling out with the PPP/C, came out in support today for PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar.

Barbadian Roger Mayers emerged with the driver’s champion title today at the conclusion of the final leg of the GT&T/Seaboard Marine Caribbean Race of Champions at the South Dakota circuit after leader David Summerbell failed to take to the field due to mechanical problems with his car.

A 36-year-old man died today under suspicious circumstances following an apparent accident on Wellington Street in the city.

St Lucia is observing three days of national mourning following the Thursday evening accident in which a bus coming from a funeral went over a cliff and plunged into the sea killing 17 people including an infant and a pregnant woman.

Guyanese lightweight champion Patrick Forde passed away at 6.45 am today in a New York hospital according to his brother Reginald.

Former judge of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Guyanese Odel Adams has passed away.

(Barbados Nation) France’s president Nicholas Sarkozy has named Barbados among 11 so-called tax havens which he says will be shunned by the international community.

KOLKATA,  (Reuters) – West Indies’ spin-wary  batsmen should look to Shivnarine Chanderpaul to learn how to  tackle the Indian spinners in the ongoing test series, visiting  captain Darren Sammy said today.

(Trinidad Express) It is neither captain Kenwyne Jones and his players, nor German coach Otto Pfister, but rather the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) which is coming in for the heaviest criticism following the national team’s early elimination from 2014 World Cup qualifying.

(Trinidad Express) A 64-year-old shopkeeper was discovered murdered at his Morvant home yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago experienced an earthquake yesterday that measured 4.6 on the Richter scale.

(Trinidad Express) Anger coursed through the Gasparillo Road, Santa Cruz, community yesterday after three residents were shot dead and three others injured during an incident with police in Chaguanas earlier in the day.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao was tested to  the full before retaining his WBO welterweight title with a  controversial majority decision over Juan Manuel Marquez at the  MGM Grand Garden Arena yesterday.

Member of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes told supporters at a rally at Bath, West Coast Berbice yesterday that if government could not protect its minister, Satyadeow Sawh, then it could not protect them.

With two new large-scale gold mines set to open in the coming years, President of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA), Patrick Harding, says mining will be the future of Guyana.

The Lethem Citizens’ Committee (LCC) is calling for an investigation into the recent distribution of Rupununi flood relief funds, with one its members, Clairmont Lye, alleging a series of irregularities in the process—including concerns about the authenticity of some names of persons who received the relief.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank attached to the Air Corps based in Timehri, was late Friday night shot by two armed men who allegedly invaded the compound.

Facing growing scrutiny over the pension that President Bharrat Jagdeo will earn when he demits office, Office of the President (OP) on Friday night released the pensions received by former president Arthur Chung and the previous first ladies.

A lack of “substantial evidence” is hindering investigations of corruption in the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).