Guyana News

KABUL, (Reuters) – NATO-led forces said tday  that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani  network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in  eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.

(Trinidad Express) The Integrity Commission yesterday confirmed that it is probing Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) chairman Jearlean John.

Six Guyanese who were arrested in St. Lucian waters last Saturday night after weapons and drugs were found in the Guyanese cargo vessel they were on, were last evening slapped with ten charges each.

CNS Channel 6 will be off the air effective Monday at midnight after President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday handed broadcaster CN Sharma a four-month licence suspension as a sanction for a May 4, 2011 Anthony Vieira commentary in which there were damaging statements about Bishop Juan Edghill.

A Corentyne fisherman who was undergoing psychiatric evaluation after he allegedly set two persons alight in a boat was found to be of sound mind and was charged at the Whim Court yesterday with murdering them.

Amid heightened rhetoric over Guyana’s submission of an application to extend its continental shelf, Georgetown and Caracas yesterday recommitted in Trinidad and Tobago to the UN Good Offices process and their respective facilitators are to meet to discuss the matter and then report back to their governments.

After the Ministry of Housing dramatically produced a cheque he had tendered to it, Region 10 chairman Mortimer Mingo acknowledged for the first time yesterday that he had sent the instrument for $1,500,500 to recognise the offer of a house lot at the controversial Pradoville 2 Scheme but had it dishonoured after discovering that other chairmen had not been offered lots.

A 30-year-old man died on Tuesday after the tractor he was driving toppled down a hill at Wheelbarrow Backdam, 14 Miles Issano.

Two persons were seriously injured following a domestic dispute at Rosignol, Berbice last night.

A Miami-based American Eagle Airlines flight attendant accused of working under a fake name and passport was sentenced yesterday to eight months in prison less time served and three years probation, according to NBC Miami.

A meeting between senior Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officials  and the Suriname Customs & Excise Department in Nickerie, Suriname, has resulted in several agreements  and a streamlined Berbice customs.

Digicel Guyana is demanding “a full and frank explanation” from GT&T’s US owners, Atlantic Tele-Networks (ATN) “regarding the nature and extent of any legal or other threats made against the Government of Guyana concerning the planned introduction of telecommunications reform in Guyana last week,” the mobile operator said in a press release yesterday.

Residents of the Berbice River, Region 10 are in search of a man feared drowned after the boat he was in sank.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Foundation on Monday said it has selected seven new awardees to benefit from financial and other support from the DDL Foundation.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has granted an extension to the deadline for drilling the Jaguar-1 well offshore Guyana to Repsol and the main partners in the joint venture drilling project.

The 2010 Auditor General’s Report was yesterday presented to acting Speaker of the National Assembly Clarissa Riehl, by acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma, and he gave a mixed review of government’s implementation of previous recommendations.

Forest industry stakeholders are coming together to urge Guyanese to use cheaper and equally good species of wood to help counter the shortage of popular and often used ones.

A woman who allegedly damaged her husband’s car windscreen because he does not want to pay school fees was yesterday placed on self-bail after she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says in keeping with amendments made to the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act from today photographs will now be affixed to provisional driver’s licences.

Chief River and Sea Defence Officer Geoffrey Vaughn revealed last night that a sea defence breach in the Canje Creek, caused by unusual spring tides, and which had resulted in flooding in Tucber, Nurseville and Winkel in New Amsterdam, has been sealed andDavid `Shakes’ Christopher the water has receded.