Guyana News

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says the power outage that occurred in Anna Regina on Sunday was due to the failure of a high voltage cable and it is working to restore power to Essequibo consumers.

Police ranks discovered an unlicensed .32 Taurus pistol with seven rounds on one of three men on whom they conducted searches in the Tucville area on Wednesday last.

(Barbados Nation) ST. JOHN’S– Wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin and off-spinner Shane Shillingford have been recalled to the West Indies Test squad for their tour of Bangladesh next month.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has expressed condolences to Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow on the passing of the Central American country’s former PM George Price.

Police say that at about 0500h today police ranks responded to a report received that three men were seen stealing copper wire at Better Hope South, ECD.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1930h yesterday at Hope, ECD, during which businessman Karranchand Itwaru, 48 years; his wife Cindy Itwaru, 40 years; son Trevor Itwaru and employee Leon Wickham were attacked and robbed by five men, two of whom were armed with a handguns.

In what he told the UN General Assembly was his final address to it, President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday threw out four security challenges which he said must be addressed.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Guyana Police Force are to continue to collaborate with the Private Sector and other stakeholders towards a Crime Stoppers programme and the resuscitation of a mechanism for the sharing of information between the police force and the private security firms.

The Education Ministry recently mandated that all primary and secondary schools implement remediation programmes in mathematics and English to elevate slow learners to acceptable standards, a statement from the ministry today said.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Angostura board has terminated the services of managing director and chief executive Wayne Yip Choy.

(Trinidad Express) A lack of security at the Port of Kingston, Jamaica, is a threat to the reputations of local importers and Customs brokers, who are possibly being used without their knowledge to ship drugs through the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Express) A three-car smash-up along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway on Tuesday night left two people dead, one of them a police officer.

(Trinidad Express) Interest rates for CLICO’s prime investment product, the Executive Flexible Premium Annuity (EFPA), got “out of hand”, Michael Carballo, the former group financial director of CL Financial, said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Lawrence Duprey was paid TT$90 million a year from the deposits of policyholders in collapsed insurance company CLICO, attorney Neal Bisnath said yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) When reputed Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ coke pleaded guilty last month to reduced charges in a New York court, speculation was rife that he would call names.

(Barbados Nation) Family members who are under mental and physical strain from looking after elderly and vulnerable individuals at home will soon receive help.

(Barbados Nation) Women’s shoes account for the highest number of cases reported to the Office of Public Counsel.

LUSAKA, (Reuters) – Zambia’s opposition leader  Michael Sata held on to his lead over incumbent Rupiah Banda,  the election commission said, as counting moved beyond a halfway  point today in the race to become the next president of  Africa’s biggest copper producer.

(Barbados Nation) The construction of an “energy island” off the coast of Barbados has been suggested by executive director of the newly formed Barbados Renewable Energy Association, Clyde Griffith, and the idea has met with a cautious response from a number of players in the energy sector.

(Barbados Nation) Companies that invested in CLICO’s risky, high interest-paying Executive Flexible Premium Annuities (EFPAs), which were only to be sold to individuals, will still get a chance to salvage their investments.