Guyana News

Two foreign nationals are now in police custody following the discovery of an unlicensed firearm with matching rounds in a vehicle in the North West District (NWD), along with spent shells nearby.

Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira has distanced herself from WikiLeaks disclosures which suggested that she was opposed to the appointment of Henry Greene as the Top Cop but was having difficulty getting President Bharrat Jagdeo and Head of the Presidential secretariat around to this view.

Police say that at about 1630h yesterday, acting on information received, they stopped and searched a vehicle at Matthews Ridge, NWD, during which they found an unlicensed .38 revolver and 12 matching rounds.

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands marched  today for lower living costs in the largest such rally in  Israel’s history, bolstering a social change movement and  mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take  on economic reform.

Then US Ambassador, Roland Bullen cabled Washington on March 13, 2006 on how in his view President Bharrat Jagdeo had taken the election campaign on the low road and had tried to stir up public fear and leverage it into votes.

The main sugar union GAWU today said it was surprised by Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud’s exhortation for GuySuCo to decide quickly on Indian and Chinese proposals to manage the troubled Skeldon factory saying it has been reliably informed that the matter has not been taken to the board as yet.

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Jamaican Usain Bolt  blazed to the 200 metres title at the world championships today in 19.40 seconds to confirm his reputation as the king  of sprinters.

(CXC) The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) wishes to emphatically refute a report which was circulating in the regional media on Friday 2 September, claiming that there was a leak of CXC examination papers at a school in St Lucia and that the Council is investigating this matter.

(Barbados Nation) Dorothy Bradshaw is afraid. Bradshaw (not real name) is one of the thousands of CLICO policyholders waiting to get their money.

(Barbados Nation) Peter Wickham has been fired as resident analyst on the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) radio and television stations.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that his decision to appoint Henry Greene as Police Commissioner was made after the US refused to provide information on a five-year probe, which it said tied Greene to drug trafficking.

Former US Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen considered the Government of Guyana (GoG) to be so compromised by drug lord Roger Khan that he told his bosses in Washington, D.C

With the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) saying that Police Commissioner Henry Greene “benefited from the proceeds of drug trafficking,”—a charge he denied—the US, UK, Canada and EU mission chiefs here urged the government against going ahead with his appointment.

A University of Guyana student met his demise early yesterday morning, after he was fatally shot and robbed by bandits while hanging out by the seawall with a female companion.

Recently leaked diplomatic cables show that the PPP/C, under the Bharrat Jagdeo administration, has “exhibited a marked unwillingness to cooperate with our friends and major donors to prevent our nation from descending into the firm grasp of the drug lords,” the opposition coalition APNU said on Thursday.

Valerie Garrido-Lowe says she will remain the leader of the United Force and would dispel attempts by rival executive members of the party to oust her from the position.

The governments of Guyana and Japan are to next week sign an agreement for the second phase of rehabilitative works of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).

Indarpaul Moninlal Doodnauth, the Lusignan, East Demerara businessman wanted in connection with last month’s huge cocaine bust, has been released on station bail and is to maintain contact with police, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.

A man accused of entering Guyana illegally was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Ranks from Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) over the last two days destroyed a large quantity of marijuana plants in two fields on the West Bank Demerara, seized three shotguns and arrested three men.