Guyana News

Almost 4 months have passed since an Enmore Sugar Estate worker died and his wife is yet to be compensated.

A Brazilian miner died after he was trapped during a pit cave-in in Region Seven last week.

Police have captured the suspect in the July murder of Pomeroon resident, Alexis Smith.

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.

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.

(Barbados Nation) Vendors are now depending on imported vegetables because of a shortage of local produce.

Police have captured the suspect in the July murder of Pomeroon resident, Alexis Smith.

SANAA (Reuters) – At least 15 protesters were killed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, when gunfire broke out at one of the biggest demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in recent months, a Reuters witness said, .

 LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Floyd Mayweather Jr took the  WBC welterweight title from Victor Ortiz with a controversial  fourth-round knockout yesterday that prompted an angry  response from the crowd and raised questions about his conduct  in the ring.

(Barbados Nation) Public outcry has forced the National Insurance Department to put the brakes, for now, on the plan to force all pensioners to maintain bank accounts in order to access their money.

(Barbados Nation) Foreign nurses will again be recruited to work in Barbados when the new $160 million private hospital opens here in another two years.

(Barbados Nation) A multi-million-dollar solution to the CLICO (Barbados) International Life debacle has been carved out, but full details are expected later this week when the final report of the company’s judicial managers goes before the court.

(Trinidad Express) There is a shortage of marijuana in the country and because of the high demand for the illicit herb, drug dealers and traffickers have resorted to attempts to import even larger quantities of the drug into the country to make up for the scarcity.

(Trinidad Express) Even as Law enforcement authorities claim huge State of Emergency (SoE) gains in weapons finds across the country, a research paper on gangs in Trinidad and Tobago has raised concerns about a State stash of some 5,000-surplus, obsolete police-confiscated firearms and more than ten tons of small arms ammunition currently in police lock-up.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) duo that captured five parliamentary seats in 2006 were reunited yesterday with the election of party leader, Raphael Trotman as the prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming general elections, though now the positions are reversed.

The consensus among international donor community observers in 2009 was that democracy  and the rule of law here were at their lowest ebb since the 2006 polls, according to then US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, Karen Williams.

Beyond the fact that some eight kilogrammes of cocaine were found concealed in the fuel tank of Raphael Piggott’s car, police were never able to develop any leads into the November 8, 2008 execution of the clothing vendor.

Local animal rights activists are calling for a re-examination of the procedures regarding the export of wildlife even as traders maintain that guidelines are already stringent.

Ramdeyol Ramdhar was a heavy-duty mechanic and later a successful marine engineer, but he is also diabetic and now limits himself to tending his garden and his poultry.

E-mails, including request for payment, by Guyanese interior designer Supriya Singh were among the evidence that was presented to Dominica’s Integrity Commission to trigger a probe into Prime Minis-ter Roosevelt Skerrit’s alleged ownership of a multi-million dollar real estate development.