Guyana News

An employee of the Guyana Post Office Cooperation (GPOC) was yesterday charged with forging old age pension vouchers.

Food For The Poor (FFTP)-Guyana has started a $60M housing project at the Amerindian community of Mashabo, in Region Two.

The Agape Network is hosting a two-day workshop next week in preparation for the launch of its ‘Harmony Project’.

Jormin Jackson, the minibus driver accused of causing the deaths of five persons in July’s Homestretch Avenue accident, was yesterday further remanded to prison by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court.

(Trinidad Express) Hours before his 30th birthday, Nirmal Baldeo was found dead, throat slit, in the back seat of a car parked at Dow Village, California.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Guyanese Stanley Praimnath still  remembers the roar of the engines, the stench of the jet fuel  and the thunderous impact in his 81st floor office as United  Airlines Flight 175 hit the south World Trade Center tower.

In the wake of fresh allegations stemming from WikiLeaks cables about links between government officials and drug lord Roger Khan, presidential candidate David Granger today called for an independent investigation of Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy and former Home Affairs Ministers Ronald Gajraj and Gail Teixeira.

  The US Embassy Georgetown today announced the arrival of new Ambassador D.

  Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) today blamed voltage fluctuations for disruptions in the water supply to residents along the East Bank and East Coast of Demerara.

According to Marketwire,  CGX Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OYL) (“CGX” or the “Company”) has announced that trading in the Company’s shares was halted this morning following the reaction to an announcement by Tullow Oil plc of oil discoveries in their Zaedyus well offshore French Guiana.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – London-based explorer Tullow Oil   said it had struck oil offshore French Guiana, raising  the prospect of the opening of a major offshore oil producing  province in South America and boosting its shares.

(Trinidad Express) Blanchisseuse police yesterday during an early morning exercise unearthed a cache of arms and ammunition which was buried in a forested area off Rincon Road, Las Cuevas.

(Jamaica Observer) NEGRIL, Westmoreland — Popular western Jamaica cabaret singer Shandy Man has secured the services of a lawyer to assist him in getting back the United States visitors visa held by him since January 3 this year which was in July revoked by the US Embassy.

(Jamaica Observer) Police Commissioner Owen Ellington, has warned members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to be careful in their use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced that it has approved a US$5 million loan ($1B) to  boost the efficiency of Guyana’s power system via electricity loss reduction measures and improvements in the operation and maintenance of the distribution network.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Virgin Holidays passengers and Virgin Unite will pump US$3.5 million (J$300 million) into the new Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship – Caribbean, which opened at the ATL Bogue City Centre in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday.

Car Care (right of photo) at 43 Hadfield Street and a guesthouse next to it were gutted by fire around 1 am today.

(Barbados Nation) Gusty winds and heavy rains are forecast for today as Barbados faces its closest brush with a tropical storm for the year.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Interpol has issued arrest  warrants for Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and  intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, it said in a statement  today.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Despite the fact that police forces in the Caribbean invest much more in police officers, much more has to be done to make the transition more effective.