Guyana News

(Jamaica Observer) Students throughout the Caribbean region continue to perform dismally in mathematics with a mere 32 per cent of entries achieved acceptable grades in the June 2011 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

(Jamaica Observer) The quietness of Frankfield, a community in the central parish of Clarendon, was shaken yesterday morning when men armed with machetes invaded a house and attacked its three male occupants as they slept, hacking them to death.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean Cement Company Limited made a loss of J$608 million in the second quarter, even while cement sales appeared to have stabilised in the period.

(Barbados Nation) Government will construct a centre for the performing arts, and has called on radio stations to play no less than 60 per cent of local music, while it pledged Bds$50 million to promote, market and distribute local entertainers’ products and services from next year.

A fire this morning razed several homes on Lombard Street leaving many homeless.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In Jamaica, 65 kilos of cocaine were intercepted that were allegedly from Suriname.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officers yesterday afternoon swooped on a house at the Haslington New Scheme, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), where they discovered more than 100 kilos (200 lbs) of cocaine stashed in Hindu religious items being prepared for shipment to Canada.

The once busy town of New Amsterdam (NA) which used to be a draw for persons travelling from West Berbice and Corentyne has not been the same businesswise following the opening of the Berbice River Bridge in 2008.

A man, who was told by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) in April of last year that he was dead after a mix-up, is still waiting to receive his pension payments.

A self-employed chef/caterer arraigned on three forgery charges pertaining to a $153.8M cheque was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $5M when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Schools are still demanding exorbitant registration fees to enroll students, according to some parents.

Loud music from the boom boxes at the Police Sports Club Ground have seen persons living in the area and patients of the nearby St Joseph Mercy Hospital complaining bitterly about the discomfort caused.

Two Dominican Republic women accused of uttering forged passports to an immigration officer were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The city’s contracted garbage collectors are expected to resume work in all communities today, after receiving outstanding payments in full, according to Mayor and City Council (M&CC) spokesman Royston King.

Drilling for oil offshore Guyana is unlikely to begin this month, with the contracted rig still operating in Suriname.

A mother of three, accused of narcotics possession when she reportedly had cannabis in the food she was taking to an inmate at the Brickdam lock-ups, was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $60,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The first leg of the Miss Jamzone International Pageant is going to be a good competition, says CEO of Hits and Jams Kerwin Bollers.

Brazilian diamond dealer Sergio Mattos was early yesterday morning abducted in front of his girlfriend’s home in Georgetown, but his captors later released him without a ransom payment after learning that police had been notified.

A week has passed since the National Communication Network (NCN) pulled the radio serial Merundoi from its airwaves and there has been no official word from the state-run station on the reason for the decision or whether the drama would resume broadcast.

Police have identified the man shot and killed at Five Star, in the North West District on Monday as Emanuel Evans, of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.