Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Loss-making regional airline LIAT has plans to boost business with attractive travel packages for seniors, sports people, students and shoppers.

(CMC) Hyderbad, West Indies’ international Twenty20 stars could find themselves having to choose between the maroon colours and playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) after the new dates for the lucrative T20 championship were announced yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Lynne Anne Williams, executive director of the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs), has been fired.

BERNE, (Reuters) – Four Caribbean soccer officials  have been banned, including Jamaica Football Federation  president Horace Burrell, for their part in a cash-for-votes  scandal in the run-up to this year’s FIFA presidential election.

The police say they are probing an armed robbery that occurred at about 1255h today at One Mile, Wismar, during which salesman Richard Alves, 55 years, was attacked and robbed by five men armed with handguns.

The police say they are investigating an attempted armed robbery that occurred at about 1100h.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – India’s spinners  wreaked havoc, after captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh  Raina starred with the bat, to clinch a 126-run victory over  England today in the first of five one-day internationals.

John Blanchard, the father accused of murdering two of his children, was remanded to prison this morning by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Toronto Star says that a Guyana-born Oshawa justice of the peace has been accused of sexual harassment by several female court staff who work with him.

On October 11th professor Duke Pollard was sworn in as a temporary Justice of the Belize Court of Appeal by the Governor General, Sir Colville Young, at Belize House, Belmopan, according to The Guardian of Belize.

The People’s Progressive Party will name its prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming elections on Sunday at its rally in Linden.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A German computer whizz-kid was  jailed today after trying to bring new bank card scamming  technology into Britain.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Surrey Hotel Management Limited, an outfit established and owned by Kevin Hedrickson who operates the Courtleigh Hotel and Suites, will take over operations of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston come Friday, October 28.

(Trinidad Express) The Bocas Lit Fest hosts a Martin Carter evening this evening to honour the late, great Guyanese poet.

(Trinidad Express) The Chinese People’s Liberation Army will build a military hospital for the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF).

(Trinidad Express) Jack Warner, Minister of Works and Infrastructure, is still being investigated by police in connection with his bringing in over US$40,000 into T&T without declaring it.

(Trinidad Express) The video and transcripts of Works Minister Jack Warner offering advice on “gifts” from former FIFA presidential hopeful, Qatari Mohamed bin Hammam, to Caribbean Football Union officials have been handed over to the Attorney General.

(Reuters) – Australia test and one-day captain  Michael Clarke has defended his players against match-fixing  allegations after a sports agent said the country’s top  cricketers were “the biggest” culprits.

Jamaican investigators at the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) say they have a “good understanding” of how cocaine valued at $112 million was smuggled into the island yesterday on board a ship coming from Guyana.

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