Guyana News

Ten-year-old Sameer Samshuddin remains in an unconscious state in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where his condition is said to be critical.

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says that should it assume office it will immediately raise the income-tax threshold to $100,000 and reduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) from 16 per cent to 10 per cent.

Journalists from across the Caribbean were last week exposed to a range of skills and knowledge for applying international labour standards in their reporting during a three-day workshop in Trinidad and Tobago.

By Marcelle Thomas Whether it was swirling clay taken from rice fields on a passé potter’s wheel, using banana and other plant leaves to make commemorative collectable dolls and fashion clothing, assembling awara, buckbead tamarind and other seeds to make jewellery or using local wood to make dhall swizzlers, clothing beaters, mortars and pestles and rolling pins, local craft producers were out in full force at GuyExpo, the annual trade fair held at the Sophia Exhibition from September 29 to October 2.

Development Coordinator Harripersaud Nokta and a team of officials were given a warm welcome during a recent visit to Kanapang and Itabac in Region Eight.

GT&T said nine persons have been chosen from a group of over 30 who auditioned on the Essequibo Coast recently for its Jingle and Song contest.

The Mayor and City Council advises the public that the Solid Waste Management Department has implemented a revised schedule for collection in wards from category eight.

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.

(Barbados Nation) Rihanna’s British Vogue cover debut has been billed as one of the magazine’s most anticipated issues.

(Barbados Nation) Wilfredo Pérez Jr has mixed feelings about his trip to Barbados – on one hand he feels genuine sympathy and acceptance but on the other, the pain of reliving the worst day of his life.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – British model and actress  Elizabeth Hurley is engaged to retired Australian cricketer  Shane Warne, the couple confirmed via Twitter.

The police are investigating the alleged kidnapping of fisherman Rasheed Bridgemohan called “Convict”, 36, of North West District.

A candlelight vigil will be held outside Channel Six at the corner of Robb and Wellington streets tonight and all are invited to join in solidarity with CN Sharma following the suspension of his broadcast licence by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

PERUGIA, Italy, (Reuters) – An Italian court cleared  24-year-old American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend of  murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and ordered  them to be set free today after nearly four years in prison  for a crime they always denied committing.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0745h today along the Railway Embankment, Lusignan, ECD, during which businessman Purushotam Nauth was shot.

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

(Trinidad Guardian) Niko Resources Limited, an international oil and natural gas exploration and production company, with its head office located in Calgary, Canada, says there have been been attempts to sabotage a seismic survey being conducted on the Guayaguayare block by people trying to extract money from the company.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Deputy Prime Minister Dr Ken Baugh has taken issue with last night’s address to the nation by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, in which he said the time has come for the old vanguards of the country’s political parties to step aside and make way for young leadership.

(Barbados Nation) The seafaring industry in Barbados is experiencing a “critical” manpower shortage and things can get worse.

(Barbados Nation) The stalled Four Seasons hotel project seems set to get a new financial lease on life and it is to come from the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.