Guyana News

Minibus driver Bhagwandeen Budhram, who was charged last year with causing death by dangerous driving, has had his

A Prashad Nagar resident was yesterday placed on $250,000 bail on a charge of procuring a woman to become a common prostitute after he appeared before  Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Los Angeles (Reuters) – Two men were charged with animal cruelty after 15 monkeys they were shipping from Guyana to Thailand were found dead at Los Angeles International Airport, prosecutors said on Thursday.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – World  100 metres    champion Yohan Blake ran a personal best of 9.82  seconds at the Zurich Diamond League meeting today in his  first race since winning gold in Daegu.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The United States today  accused four Venezuelan officials of helping to provide arms to  drug-running Colombian guerrillas, a charge that Venezuela’s  left-wing government dismissed as “abusive.”

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of miner Aftab Rahim, 32 years of Tuschen, EBE.

DURBAN, (Reuters) –  Former West Indies  captain  Chris Gayle   has signed to play  for South African franchise the Dolphins in the South African  domestic Twenty20 (T20) competition, the Durban-based team  announced today.

SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s police regularly  use excessive force, conduct illegal searches and commit other  rights violations while failing to curb drug-fueled crime in  the U.S.

US Charge d’Affaires Karen Williams told Washington that links between Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy and drug kingpin Roger Khan were strong and that the latter had once proposed Ramsammy as a mediator between him and the US government.

(Trinidad Guardian) All was not as it seemed with scrap iron yards which were found to conceal thousands of gallons of diesel fuel in an “underground bunker,” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday maintained, following continued Beetham Gardens’ concerns on the issue.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad woman, seduced into going on a weekend vacation trip to Tobago, was found dead on Tuesday—strangled and beaten at a guest house in Bacolet.

(Jamaica Observer) A seized drug boat that was being used by the Coast Guard was stolen on Sunday night from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) base at Discovery Bay, St Ann, authoritative sources in the security ministry have confirmed.

(De Ware Tijd)  PARAMARIBO — According to Pearl Jules, head of the Forestry and Forest Supervision Foundation (SBB), internationally, the impression is unjustly created that Suriname has allowed that investors on the Canadian trade fair have been swindled for millions of US dollars by the Chinese/Canadian timber multinational Greenheart Resources Holdings (GRH), an affiliate of Sino Forest.

(Barbados Nation) Sulieman Benn has no problem standing for the Trinidad and Tobago national anthem.

Guyana on Tuesday made a full submission of a claim to an extended continental shelf to the United Nations.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene last evening confirmed that Assistant Commissioner Steve Merai has reached the age of retirement but said he has been asked to stay on the job until after elections.

A Guyanese man was shot and killed in neighbouring Venezuela on Saturday night, his relatives said yesterday.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar does not believe that the contents of the recently released Wikileaks cables will negatively impact on his presidential bid, since nothing “earth-shattering” has been revealed.

Residents of Linden are expressing no-confidence in the management of bauxite company BOSAI fulfilling their recent commitment to have two dust collecting units operational by February 2012,  saying that they have for many years been living on empty promises.

Several supermarkets across Georgetown have no sugar on their shelves although Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Rajendra Singh says there is no shortage and that the price remains the same — $4,900 per 100-lb bag.