Guyana News

Cabinet has approved four contracts which will see improvement in the agriculture and infrastructure areas.

The Ninth Parliament will soon end with the final sitting of the National Assembly being called on Thursday, September 29, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said at his post-Cabinet briefing yesterday.

The National Communications Network (NCN) has banned airplay of Jamaican dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel’s songs, citing their lewd content.

Centenarian Ruby Sydney said she has lived a full life and never let an opportunity pass to learn a new skill, even as she looks forward to her 101st birthday tomorrow.

Police are investigating an armed robbery which occurred at about 10.15 am yesterday at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, during which three women were robbed at gunpoint of US$10,000 and $80,000 along with a quantity of jewellery.

An 18-year-old who was charged with possession of cannabis was yesterday placed on $5,000 bail after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Police today said that investigations are being conducted into an armed robbery that occurred at about 1015h.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh today expressed deep concern about what he said was the negligence of the Region Four administration in carrying out critical renovation works at the Golden Grove Secondary School which has been at the centre of an uproar over its poor condition.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The head of Afghanistan’s High  Peace Council, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who had  been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war,  was killed at his home today, a senior police officer said.

(Jamaica Observer) Chris Gayle’s recent claim that he’s awaiting a response from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regarding his status with the regional side is unfounded, a leaked board communiqué obtained by the Observer suggests.

St Lucian Prime Minister Stephenson King yesterday said he had asked the island’s diplomats in the United States to probe reports that Washington had revoked the visa of his Housing Minister Richard Frederick, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government has set a target to facilitate the build-out of 500,000 square feet of space for the business processing industry over the next three to five years as part of its plan to double information and communication technology (ICT) jobs in Jamaica over that period.

TORONTO, (Toronto Sun) – One of Canada’s “Most Wanted” criminals, who was convicted twice of beating women, has been deemed a threat to public security and denied release from custody by an immigration hearing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Lawrence Duprey dreamed of establishing a rum empire. And, according to former group financial director Michael Carballo, he would let nothing stop him.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pool lime at an upscale residential complex in Moka, Maraval ended in tragedy early yesterday when the 30-year-old son of a prominent Arima businessman fell to his death.

(Trinidad Express) Former CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey was yesterday described as a “very persuasive, very logical man”, by former group financial director of CL Financial, Michael Carballo.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados could see a decline in British tourist arrivals next summer with a planned reduction in flights to the Caribbean by British Airways.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Libya’s deposed leader Muammar  Gaddafi said the system of rule he set up was based on the  people’s will and could not be removed, speaking in a recorded  message broadcast today.

Following the last elections, international donors tried to lobby the government to reform the electoral system to make Members of Parliament (MPs) answerable to the people, but they concluded that significant change was doubtful under President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Police Corporal Sherwin Smith this morning appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of Counsellor Ralph Turpin and was later remanded to prison until October 10 by Magistrate Sueann Lovell.