Guyana News

AFC’s prime ministerial candidate Raphael Trotman says that his party is still looking to forge partnerships with other persons and groups ahead of the 2011 general elections, including disenchanted members of the PPP/C and APNU.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) says that President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent suspension of CNS Channel 6 is an attempt to prevent the opposition parties from getting their messages out in the run-up to elections and to contain the exposures of injustices in the society.

The United Force has flayed the suspending of the licence of CNS Channel Six by President Bharrat Jagdeo and says it is prepared to march with the media on this issue.

Former project manager for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Charles Sohan says that the government needs to be more transparent with the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric project (AFHEP) and should explain how the project’s estimated price could increase by more than US$200M before it has even been finalized.

Forty-year-old Zanoila Blair of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice considers herself lucky to be alive after her former reputed husband, Colin Fraser, 43 stabbed her around 8.45 pm on Friday and then slit his throat.

Former leader of the United Force (TUF) Manzoor Nadir and the party’s Chairman Ismail Muhammad have made an application to the Full Court for the dismissal of the injunction brought against them by Valerie Garrido-Lowe.

Who killed well-known Essequibo businessman Victor Warner and escaped with a large amount of cash and jewellery?

Presidential candidate of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Brigadier (ret) David Granger has challenged Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir’s claim that Guyana’s unemployment rate had fallen from 11.7 to 10.7 per cent.

Police on the West Demerara are investigating a case where an 11-year-old boy attempted to sexually assault a seven-year-old female and injured her with a knife.

An East Ruimveldt resident is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after he was struck down by a driver who claimed he swerved from a cow.

The PPP/C last evening took their campaign to the residents of South and North Ruimveldt urging them to vote for a party that has worked consistently to improve the lives of Guyanese ever since its assumption of office while Prime Minister Samuel Hinds suggested that the election would be in late November.

Cabinet has decided to extend limited tax concessions to persons desirous of importing garbage disposal trucks and consequently the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Friday announced that individuals or companies wishing to access the concessions must have an investment agreement with the government, a press release from the GRA said.

HAMILTON, (Reuters) – Hurricane Ophelia strengthened  to a Category 4 storm as it swept east of Bermuda today,  whipping up showers, thunderstorms and surf on the British  overseas territory, forecasters said.

Rights activist Ramon Gaskin was this afternoon chopped several times about the body during an armed robbery at his Campbellville home.

The United Force has flayed the suspending of the licence of CNS Channel Six by President Bharrat Jagdeo and says it is prepared to march with the media on this issue.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress today condemned yesterday’s decision by President Bharrat Jagdeo to suspend the licence of CNS Channel Six for four months and it urged civil society to speak up.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hermelinda Parker, the former proprietor of the Latin Movement Nightclub at Dunrobin Plaza, St Andrew, who is charged with trafficking in persons appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Jamaica and Cuba which is aimed at tackling cross-border issues such as the illegal trafficking of drugs and weapons.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Following the arrest yesterday of dancehall star Adidja Palmer, who goes by the stage name ‘Vybz Kartel’, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell, has disclosed that other entertainers have popped up on the police radar and could be arrested soon.

(Barbados Nation) Tracing those who may have exposed their partners to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has become a priority of those combating the spread of the disease in Barbados.