Guyana News

Four of the accused in the Bel Air Gardens $7 million heist were yesterday granted $1 million bail on each of two counts of armed robbery.

Today, at 5:15 pm the highest tide for the year, at a height of 3.34 metres, will touch these shores.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – A listeria outbreak caused by  tainted cantaloupes has infected 72 people in the United States  and killed 13, U.S.

  New photographs and a video have recently emerged of an 18 ft anaconda that was captured in Guyana’s tropical rainforests in 2009.

At about 16:00hrs yesterday, police said, the body of miner Jahave Brown, 23, of Helena, Mahaica, ECD, was found at  Bonehead, Omai, with a wound to the chest.

 ADEN, Yemen, (Reuters) – Yemen’s defence minister  survived an attack on his convoy today, narrowly escaping  death for the second time in a month, when a suicide bomber blew  himself up in a car in the southern city of Aden, officials  said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former CL Financial’s Group finance head Michael Carballo yesterday admitted he was the architect of intercompany loans.

(Trinidad Guardian) The massive traffic build-up on the north-bound lane of the Uriah Butler Highway yesterday morning has been described as a disaster by Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner.

(Trinidad Express) Shida Bolai has been appointed chief executive officer of Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) with effect from October 1, 2011.

(Trinidad Express) Former CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey was a visionary whose downfall was that he had “incompetent” managers working under him.

(Jamaica Observer) Officers of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) tried without success last night to convince Prime Minister Bruce Golding to reverse his decision to step down as head of the Government and the party.

(Jamaica Gleaner) News of Bruce Golding’s pending resignation as Jamaica Labour Party leader and prime minister of Jamaica has resonated across the world like wildfire.

(Barbados Nation) Far from slowly dying, the Anglican Church in Barbados is healthy, says Bishop of Barbados Dr John Holder.

(Barbados Nation) Government is joining with Barbadians in the United States to set up a BDS$1.5 million hospice for terminally ill patients.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this morning in response to Venezuela’s statement on Guyana’s submission of a claim to an extended continental shelf, that under cover of a Note Verbale, the Venezuelan Embassy here had been provided with a copy of the information Guyana submitted in its claim since May 2009, except for adjusted coordinates for the outer limits of the shelf which was based on seismic data obtained after that time.

Troy Thorington, the motorcyclist who crashed into a stationary car on Middle Road, La Penitence two days ago has died.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) last week seized a limousine luxury car after its owner dishonoured the conditions of a duty-free concession.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of 26-year-old technician Paul Bahadur revealed that he died by drowning.

PNCR-1G MP Chief Whip Lance Carberry yesterday defended the decision by the parliamentary opposition not to participate in the ninth parliament beyond the recess, saying that the government was abusing the parliamentary system.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday announced that a new system for the examination of imports will soon come on stream.