Guyana News

Eleven persons were murdered in July, four more than in the month before.

Richard Cragan, charged with stealing four rings and a shoulder bag, was yesterday denied bail, shortly after he fired his lawyer in court and opted to represent himself.

Shawn Archibald, 10 and Renisha Benjamin, 8, were earlier this week discharged from the George-town Public Hospital (GPH), after spending more than two weeks after the Homestretch Avenue accident that claimed five lives.

A man arraigned on two counts of armed robbery was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

New Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will assume duties on August 15th.

Unionists Norris Witter, Lincoln Lewis and social activist Mark Benschop were on Friday last found not guilty of unlawful assembly after an almost two-year-trial.

(Barbados Nation) Supermarket owner Charles Chaderton says Tuesday’s double murder indicates it’s time to resume hanging in Barbados.

(Trinidad Guardian) The low-cost carrier REDjet has now been given the all clear to operate in territories beyond T&T and the territories it received licences for.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States lost its  top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s yesterday  in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s  largest economy.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Hampshire batsman Michael Carberry  might have caught the attention of England selectors after  amassing 300 runs today during a stand of 523 — a record  third wicket first-class partnership in England.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Grenada’s 18-year-old multi-junior  champion Kirani James scorched a season-leading 44.61 seconds in  winning the 400 metres at today’s Diamond League meeting in  London in his first senior race as a professional athlete.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed out their  worst week in more than two years today in a volatile  session that saw the major indexes whip back and forth before  the S&P 500 ended down less than a point.

New Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Irwin LaRocque will assume duties on August 15, 2011, Dr.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Two people were killed in flooding  triggered by former Tropical Storm Emily, authorities said today, as its remnants moved northwest over the Caribbean with  a 60 percent chance of regenerating into a tropical cyclone in  the next 48 hours.

(Jamaica Observer) Private sugar manufacturers have negotiated to supply 80,000 tonnes of sugar to a United Kingdom-based entity in the 2011-2012 crop year for more than twice the price of the current deal, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Robert Montague announced yesterday.

Forty-six-year-old Caribbean Airlines crash-landing victim Noel Elliot was yesterday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and has since flown back to the United States for treatment to his injured right leg.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is not currently under probe by the Integrity Commission for any matter.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – A Libyan government spokesman today denied reports that Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son,  brigade commander Khamis Gaddafi, had been killed in a NATO air  strike.

Preliminary investigations point to pilot error as the main contributing factor to Caribbean Airlines Flight 523 overshooting the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) with information from the flight recorders as well as marks on the runway confirming that the jet touched down close to halfway along the length of the runway, a source close to the probe has revealed.

Five years after he killed his wife, fisherman, Budram Persaud was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the High Court yesterday.