Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Embattled Barbados football officials David Hinds and Mark “Bob” Forde are no longer in The Bahamas.

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.

(Barbados Nation) Regular flights have resumed at low cost carrier REDjet, but there is a delay today.

A twenty-one-year-old University of Guyana (UG) student was this morning murdered by bandits, who attacked him and his girlfriend as they sat in his car parked next to the seawall.

US Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen in 2006 considered the Guyana Government so compromised by Roger Khan that he told Washington nothing would be done about him and the envoy cited the drug lord and a former official of the government as being instrumental in the infamous phantom squad.

(Trinidad Newsday) Seventeen Chinese and five Guyanese nationals along with a Public Transportation Services Corporation (PTSC) security guard and a man wanted on an outstanding warrant, were arrested during an early morning exercise along the Beetham Highway yesterday.

In the first half of this year, the country achieved real economic growth of 5.9%, according to the Mid-Year Report tabled by Minister of Finance, Dr.

The leadership of The United Force (TUF) dissolved into further confusion yesterday with meetings of rival executives seeking to depose its Presidential Candidate, Valerie Garrido-Lowe and Chairman Ishmail Muhammad.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday said that it discovered in excess of 3000 used condoms which caused a massive blockage at the corner of Sixth and Light streets Alberttown on Wednesday.

The last of several dozen Caribbean Airlines (CAL) passengers, who were still stranded at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) yesterday, were expected to leave the airport today for the United States.

An elderly woman died on Wednesday after she was struck down by a vehicle being driven by a police constable.

PNCR-1G Councillor Dexton Copeland was yesterday barred from a statutory sitting of the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council because of disorderly behaviour.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday announced that it has taken the decision to decommission all National Identification Cards issued before October 2009.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has dubbed the new broadcast law “defensive and ill-considered,” saying that it makes the PPP/C administration appear to be reluctant to divest its monopoly over broadcasting.

Two adults accused of assaulting a schoolboy were yesterday each admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Government is seeking $2.6B in extra provisions including $500M for the Amerindian Development Fund and $209M for severance payments to former Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Diamond estate workers as well as $200M for a housing fund for teachers.

Murder accused Dwayne Jordan yesterday said that on the day his wife was killed, he found her with another man who then viciously attacked him.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has  expressed “grave concern” that the government “still cannot competently protect its fishermen from pirates on the high seas.”

The brother of businessman Harry Jodhan, who was robbed of $4M by two men during an armed robbery at the Conversation Tree Access Road  on Tuesday evening  has refused to cooperate with the police as the investigations into the incident continued yesterday.

“Our Culture Our Heritage Our Life: A Fusion of Indigenous Diversity” was the theme chosen as Guyanese countywide began commemorating Amerindian Heritage Month.