Guyana News

Residents of Charlotte Street, Enterprise are angry over noise and dust pollution they say is emanating from a hollow block factory that has been operating in the East Coast Demerara community for several years.

The Eccles Nursery School, on the East Bank of Demerara, was raided by burglars on Wednesday night.

The Ministry of Agriculture, though the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) will from tomorrow have mobile outlets at several locations across the country selling sugar.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted self bail to the Guyana Defence Force lieutenant accused of assaulting three police officers in an incident related to the June 19 assault on DJ Nerissa Pearson, for which he also stands accused.

Alford C, the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) speedboat which plies the Berbice River, ceased operation for the entire day on Wednesday after an engine failure, disrupting travel for scores of commuters.

A man who allegedly used insulting language and assaulted a police constable was yesterday placed on $35,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A suspect in several arson matters is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after he was shot by police while resisting arrest.

A 22-year-old man who allegedly used a scissors to rob a woman of her mobile phone was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The Ministry of Agriculture, though the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) will from tomorrow have mobile outlets at several locations across the country selling sugar.

Two persons are dead and five injured in an early morning accident involving a truck that had just left Bartica for the mining fields in Region 7.

BERNE, (Reuters) – Former FIFA presidential  candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam has lost his appeal against a life  ban for his part in a cash-for-votes scandal, one of several  recent controversies to hit world soccer.

(TrinidadGuardian) Hours before she said final goodbyes to her parents who died in a tragic murder/suicide in Couva, 20-year-old Anita Balkaran was detained by Chaguanas Police on Tuesday night because she had no official documents to live inTrinidad.

(TrinidadExpress) Head of the Joint Consultative Council for the local construction agency Afra Raymond yesterday sounded a “note of caution” regarding the recent Chinese investment thrust in theCaribbean.

(TrinidadExpress) Depositors desperate to get back their investments in insurance giant CLICO are to get Republic Bank shares.

Health officials inPuerto Rico say a middle school student stabbed at least 40 classmates with a hypodermic needle and all are being tested for possible diseases and are being given preventive medicine, the Associated Press reported today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A universal dress code is now in place to govern the way teachers are dressed while they are on the job.

A 54-year-old Mon Repos counsellor was early this morning shot and killed at a Stabroek Market food stand.

(Reuters) – A magnitude 6 earthquake hit in the Caribbean Sea off the southern coast of Cuba today, the US Geological Survey said.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron today said his government would look to unfreeze a further 12 billion pounds ($18.9 billion)in Libyan assets if a United Nations Security Council resolution on Libya was passed.

TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion plans to open doors for its key corporate customers using a decade-old technology most in the smartphone industry eye as a way to turn phones into wallets.