Guyana News

(Jamaica Observer) Former West Indies captain Christopher Gayle has been recommended as captain of Jamaica’s team which includes two newcomers Jermaine Blackwood and Kenardo Lewis in a 14-man squad for the Regional Super50 cricket tournament which starts on October 19.

FRUITFUL VALE, Portland — Fay Reid, a 69-year-old missionary of Shrewsbury, Fruitful Vale, has become Portland’s fourth murder victim this year.

(Jamaica Gleaner) VP Records will honour two dancehall greats this month through its 17 North Parade Anthology series.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Money laundering charges have been levelled against a 29-year-old Montego Bay, St James, man held during an international police operation two weeks ago targeting persons involved in the lottery scam.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel is scheduled to appear in the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning after being slapped yesterday with multiple charges, including murder and conspiracy to murder.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked  rebels struck at the heart of the capital Mogadishu today,  killing at least 65 people with a truck bomb in the group’s most  deadly single attack since launching an insurgency in 2007.

ROME, (Reuters) – American student Amanda Knox left  Italy for home today after an appeals court acquitted her  of murdering British student Meredith Kercher and freed her from  four years in jail.

CNS Channel Six ceased operations at 6 pm yesterday following a four-month suspension by President Bharrat Jagdeo over remarks broadcast about Bishop Juan Edghill and a range of groups rallied last evening in support of the station and were considering options to challenge the sanction.

Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday that there were no moves to make any capital investments in the bauxite industry, as was done with the sugar industry, because bauxite was unprofitable and a pact with the IMF precluded any such investment.

The New York Daily News says that a Guyanese man in Queens, New York convicted of the largest 9/11 swindle is getting out of prison after serving less than half his maximum sentence and will be deported here.

A fisherman has gone missing since Friday last and his family has reason to believe that he was kidnapped, following telephone calls to them demanding a ransom of $1 million.

A 49-year-old businessman is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), following an early morning robbery during which he was shot and robbed of $8 million.

The PNCR yesterday said it will deal internally with the recent disclosure that its Region 10 Chairman Mortimer Mingo had accepted and had attempted to pay for a house lot at the controversial ‘Pradoville 2’ Scheme.

The mangrove secretariat continues to spread its message to conserve and protect the tropical specie and yesterday the body presented a copy of a mangrove teacher’s manual which will be utilized in the secondary school curriculum to the Agriculture Ministry.

The blood bank is at a critically low level on blood at present and so the Ministry of Health has issued an SOS for blood.

Former senior member of the PNCR Joseph Hamilton yesterday defended his move to the ruling PPP/C saying it was the only party that has presented a programme of development for Guyana.

A Canadian who allegedly had 1.548kg of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Three men who allegedly attempted to defraud and obtain money by false pretence were yesterday placed on $125,000 bail each after they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The occupants of the St Joseph’s and adjoining Holy Family homes of the elderly on Vlissengen Road yesterday expressed disgust as they were affected by a strong stench of smoke and burnt flesh from a nearby empty lot, where a dead horse was set alight by its owner after it died last week.

A 24-year-old hairdresser who allegedly had 418 grammes of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison after she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.