Guyana News

(Trinidad Guardian) Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner admitted yesterday that the voice on an exclusive video posted on the Internet by the Telegraph newspaper in London was his voice.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French public prosecutors dropped  an investigation today into a writer’s accusation of  attempted rape against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn  due to lack of evidence.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians should brace themselves for more job losses for the remainder of this year, says Governor of the Central Bank Dr Delisle Worrell.

Anti-narcotics authorities in Jamaica yesterday uncovered more than 50 lbs of cocaine on board the vessel, MV Azurit which left Guyana on Sunday.

GPL consumers in sections of the city, East Bank and East Coast were hit with an early morning power outage which lasted for about an hour.

(Trinidad Express)  The Central Bank is ready with the bonds for CLICO depositors, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran said yesterday.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Illegal migration between Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil can only be tackled by consultations and close cooperation.

(Trinidad Express) Dr Eric St Cyr has tendered his resignation as chairman of the Integrity Commission and President George Maxwell Richards has accepted it.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The service problems Research In Motion (RIM), the parent company behind Blackberry (BB) mobile phones, is facing globally have also hit Latin America and the Caribbean.

A 35-year-old Guyanese Muhammed Gazznabi has been charged in Belize over crack cocaine, according to the news website, Love FM.com.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) have  named former rugby union international Patrick Howard as general  manager of team performance in a newly created role, recommended  by a review panel in August after the country’s Ashes defeat to  England.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday discharged the accused in the remaining preliminary inquiry (PI) into the $69M New Building Society (NBS) fraud, after the prosecution admitted that it would be difficult to make a case without the testimony of the complainant.

John Blanchard, who fatally knifed two of his children to death, has told police that he committed the acts because of problems he was experiencing with their mother.

Ex-members of the main opposition PNCR and the ruling PPP yesterday announced their support for the AFC, which signalled that it is in talks to get former PPP/C Minister Moses Nagamootoo on board as well.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday said that the media will not cower at the recent attempt at scaremongering, intimidation and harassment of media workers, which it charged has come to characterise the Bharrat Jagdeo presidency.

Small-scale, private sugar cane farmers are expected to boost their cultivation following the launch of a $10M revolving fund yesterday at Red House in Kingston.

Police yesterday invaded a Norton Street home and allegedly brutalized its occupants, after informing them that they were in search of a quantity of narcotics.

The Ministry of Housing on Tuesday processed 500 more house lots for the Recht-Door-Zee Housing Scheme, including for families from several squatting areas and recent fire victims.

A group of civic organisations and private citizens have applied to the High Court for an injunction to prevent the holding of the general elections, until the electorate is assured that the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) is carrying out its mandate GECOM is named as a defendant in the action, which was filed by the Guyana National Council on Public Policy (GNCPP), the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), An Interfaith Group of Concerned Religious Elders (AIGCRE) and private citizens Phillip Thomas,

James Benjamin celebrates his 100th birthday today and can still afford to brag about the daily exercise he is able to do and the fact that he remains an active member of the St Thomas Church.