Guyana News

(Jamaica Observer) The promoters of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival are this week expected to announce that multi-award-winning Canadian superstar Celine Dion has been signed for next year’s staging of the annual event.

(Jamaica Observer) The complete archives of the BBC Caribbean broadcasts from 1998 to 2011 have been donated to the University of the West Indies (UWI) to be used by researchers there and the people of the Caribbean.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Four years after the dual-citizenship drama threatened to collapse the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government, former Director of Elections Danville Walker says he wants the entire matter to be “fixed” urgently and that a Commonwealth dual citizen should have no greater right to enter representational politics than any other.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told a Lethem meeting of the PPP/C that the concerns of Amerindians are given “tremendous attention” on the agenda of Cabinet and in a surprise twist the governor of the Brazilian state of Roraima also addressed the gathering and  lauded the President.

The AFC took the Bharrat Jagdeo administration to task over its track record on crime and corruption last evening with member, Moses Nagamootoo alleging that PPP officials did not want to reform the police force because their friends were involved in the narco-trade.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday issued a statement distancing himself from any suggestion that he had something to do with the bugging of the office of his predecessor Winston Felix.

Armed robberies and break and enter and larceny are increasing rapidly in Linden, forcing residents to make unanticipated and immediate adjustments to their business and social activities.

A man has been hospitalized with two gunshot wounds to his right hip after a family gathering ended badly on Sunday morning as persons refused to leave a Goed Fortuin, West Bank Deme-rara beer garden, which they had rented.

“He showed me the house he wanted and by the time I look and look back, he had a gun to my head,” says an Indian Chief Taxi Service driver, 29, who is among 15 reportedly robbed by a lone gunman who has been posing as a customer.

Training of local observers by the Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) is moving full speed ahead across the country, a senior official of the non-governmental organization said.

The Ministry of Health has dispatched a team to Chinowieng in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni to determine what caused some residents there to fall ill.

Fire equipment procured at the cost of some $92M was handed over to the Guyana Fire Service by  Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee on Friday at a ceremony at the National Park, Thomas Lands.

A Violence Prevention Programme was launched on Friday by the programme implementation unit of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Citizen Security Pro-gramme (CSP) in an effort to create safer neighbourhoods.

The latest batch of graduates from the President’s Youth Award: Republic of Guyana (PYARG) programme has taken the number of youths who have passed  through the award at the bronze, silver and gold levels to 5,516, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will pay an official visit to Barbados from today  to Thursday this week, the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen said in a press release.

Guyana formally handed over the Pro Tempore Chairmanship of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to Paraguay at the fifth meeting of the Council of Heads of State and Government of UNASUR  in Asuncion, that country’s capital,  on October 29.

An early morning blaze yesterday left one house partially damaged and the lone occupant injured as neighbours related that the man had to be rushed to the hospital.

St Lucians will go to the polls on the same day as Guyanese – November 28.

(Trinidad Express) Kidnap victim Christine Williams escaped her abductor last night.

(Trinidad Express) The State of Emergency will be reviewed today by the National Security Council, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.