Guyana News

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that the police corporal who was implicated in last Thursday’s fatal shooting at a Stabroek Market food stand be charged with the capital offence of murder.

(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – The Dutch government regrets and condemns the anti-homo statements made by Parliamentarian Ronny Asabina.

(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Friday, the Dutch government decided to make the demands for obtaining Dutch citizenship stricter.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The new Indian cricket board  (BCCI) president N.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI)  has terminated the contract of the Indian Premier League’s Kochi  franchise for a breach of terms, newly elected board president  N.

ZURICH  (AP) — Caribbean official Colin Klass has been summoned by FIFA to answer charges this week relating to $40,000 in bribes allegedly offered by former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The French media scorned what it  called an insincere and staged TV apology by Dominique  Strauss-Kahn for his sexual encounter with a New York hotel  maid, with many noting he left the door ajar for a eventual  political comeback.

(Trinidad Express) A 20-year-old man was stabbed to death by one of his friends on Saturday night during an argument over a pair of Timberland boots.

(Jamaica Observer) The Leader and President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller yesterday hinged the party’s anticipated return to power on employment, telling the thousands of party supporters who congregated at the National Arena for the party’s 73rd annual conference, that it will establish the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) to drive economic development.

(CMC) Beleaguered opener Chris Gayle has admitted he is unsure about his future in West Indies cricket.

BUJUMBURA, (Reuters) – Gunmen who stormed a bar in  Burundi killed at least 36 people and the central African  country’s president promised those behind the attack would be  brought to justice.

When Roger Khan was nabbed in Suriname he was held with a horde of mobile instruments and two satellite phones which apparently enabled Paramari-bo security forces to track him with the help of US equipment.

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee wrote the US Department of Justice on November 19, 2009 following up a request for assistance in tracing a certain `Mr T’ who it was believed was behind the torching of the Ministry of Health building on July 17, 2009, according to a cable dispatched to Washington.

In light of recent revelations that external consultants have found that the original specifications for the Amaila Falls access road were poorly designed, AFC presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan has called for the project to be immediately halted and re-examined.

The PPP will launch a series of major rallies on October 2 at Albion as the governing party ramps up campaigning for general elections slated for later this year.

As charges of unethical conduct continue to swirl around Queens, New York Representative, Gregory Meeks, the New York Post has published details of an email where Meeks was trying to get a cricket invitation for controversial Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad to the VIP Box of disgraced Antigua-based banker Allen Stanford.

The opposition coalition APNU on Saturday criticised President Bharrat Jagdeo’s tenure, saying he has been the worst head of state in the country’s history.

Code of Conduct for political parties The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is moving towards getting all of the political parties which would contest the 2011 General and Regional Elections to sign the Code of Conduct for Political Parties and to generally abide by the protocols documented therein.

Police are continuing to question one of their own in connection with last Thursday’s murder of counsellor Ralph Turpin.

A pedal cyclist on Saturday who suffered minor injuries after he was hit by a car on the Vreed-en-Hoop Public Road, was taken to a private hospital by the driver for a second opinion after being discharged by a public hospital.