Guyana News

School of the Nations and Mae’s Secondary School won the first round when the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) hosted its Impromptu Speech Competition 2011.

Three weeks after being injured in a two-vehicle collision in Essequibo, vendor Bassmattie Bissoon is still a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) awaiting another surgery to fix her dislocated jaw, while the 18-year-old driver who caused the accident is still to be charged.

A Unity, East Coast Demerara farmer was brutally chopped about his body last evening at his home and is likely to lose his left hand which was left hanging from the wrist following the incident.

The Guyana Police Force is fully cognizant of the stipulated period for detention in the Constitution of 72 hours and Divisional and Branch Commanders are fully abreast of the requirements in this respect; as such detention beyond this period has a Constitutional provision of approach to the High Court for an extension.

A $113.05M contract for the construction of a synthetic track and field facility at the Leonora Community Centre Ground, in Region Three, is among five cleared by Cabinet on Tuesday.

In its weekly update, the Guyana Elections Commission yesterday said that it will settle debts connected with the aborted preparations for local government elections last year.

Digicel presented three cheques to the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS), the Avon Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation and the Guyana Legion last week to help them fulfil their missions.

Procurement of Sensitive Election Materials (Ballot Paper) GECOM is in the process of procuring sensitive election materials, including Ballot Paper, Statements of Poll Forms, Tally Sheets and indelible ink from Code Inc.

(Trinidad Express) National carrier, Caribbean Airlines, has been voted the region’s best airline for the second year in a row by the World Travel Awards.

(Trinidad Express) Government has initiated legal proceedings against Prof Brian Copeland and two associates—Marcel Byron and Keith Maynard over the rights of the (Genesis G-Pan).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Andrew Michael Holness, 39, is now the ninth prime minister of Jamaica.

In its weekly update, the Guyana Elections Commission today said that it will settle debts connected with the aborted preparations for local government elections last year.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A weather disturbance in the  western Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical depression  off the Central American coast in the next couple of days, the  U.S.

BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Libya’s new rulers  declared the country freed from Muammar Gaddafi’s 42 years of  one-man rule today, saying the “Pharaoh of the times” was  now in history’s garbage bin and a future of democracy and  postwar reconciliation beckoned.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is no denying the direct connect between chutney music and “rum.”

(Trinidad Express) Tunapuna detectives probing a report in which a caretaker of an estate poisoned approximately 2,000 avocados which were stolen last week, returned to the estate yesterday.

HAKKARI, Turkey,  (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake  with a magnitude of 6.6 shook southeastern Turkey today,  Turkey’s Kandilli Observatory said, triggering the collapse of  buildings and killing many people, according to a local mayor.

MISRATA,  (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s body has a  bullet in the head and a bullet in the abdomen, a medical source  told Reuters today.

(Jamaica Observer) Tuesday, October 25, 2010 will be forever etched in the memory of the fans of late reggae singer Gregory Isaacs.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados now has one of the highest rates of “victimization” in the Caribbean, owing to the escalating problem of burglaries and other property crimes.