Guyana News

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chris Gayle’s exile from West Indies is likely to continue for the two Twenty20 Internationals against England next month in London.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Brazilian national Jose Virginia Souza, 58 years, which occurred at about 1300hrs yesterday at Rockstone, Essequibo River.

A government motion seeking the suspension of the Parliamentary recess to “complete important business” was passed in the National Assembly this evening without the support of the PNC and the AFC.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Investors fled Wall Street in  the worst stock-market selloff since the depths of the Great  Recession in early 2009 in what has turned into a full-fledged  correction.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Steve Peneux, deputy-director of service at the Ministry of Public Works (OW) has received a letter from permanent secretary Roland King informing him of his dismissal on orders of President Desi Bouterse.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath continues his mandate to make food security a priority for T&T, he has pledged his continued support for a collective initiative with Caricom to encourage regional food production and to push agriculture as a sustainable business.

(Trinidad Express) Contrary to her statements last week, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has not been cleared by the Integrity Commission of all wrongdoing in the award of a $40 million contract by State-owned National Petroleum (NP) to a company owned by her friends, Ralph and Maureen Gopaul, at whose Tunapuna home the Prime Minister stayed for three months.

(Trinidad Express) Preliminary investigations into the crash of a Caribbean Airlines plane in Guyana indicate that the aircraft split in almost separate pieces after its front landing gear broke off on impact.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Sonia Gandhi, India’s ruling  Congress party chief and the country’s most powerful politician,  will undergo surgery abroad, possibly in the United States, for  an undisclosed medical condition and could be out for two to  three weeks.

The claims process that was restarted to facilitate registration for the upcoming elections ended yesterday, with an estimated 5,000 persons being processed.

A Trans Guyana Airways Cessna Caravan narrowly escaped a collision with a cow while landing at the Port Kaituma airstrip yesterday morning, prompting  local aircraft operators to cease flights into the area indefinitely.

Armed bandits escaped with a grey Toyota Premio motorcar, PNN 4184 worth $3M after robbing an Ithaca, West Bank Berbice contractor of $4M in cash and jewellery around 1:30 am yesterday.

An investigator from Guyana and another from Jamaica arrived in Washington yesterday to assist with interpreting data from the flight recorders of Caribbean Airlines Flight 523, which crash-landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Saturday.

An out-of-control car yesterday slammed into a group of children along the Ruimzigt Public Road, at West Coast Demerara, killing an eight-year-old boy on the spot while leaving his companions traumatised.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan Persid-Edmond yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Ravi Mangar who did not appear in court and hindered her handing down a ruling in the witness tampering matter for which he and Mark Reid are charged.

Two men were on Tuesday remanded over the murder of a Hogstye, Corentyne farmer and a third suspect was found dead from a bullet wound.

Kenneth Somerset became the hero to a family last Saturday, when he helped a little boy escape from the Caribbean Airlines plane that crash landed at the Cheddi International Airport, Timehri.

Negligence by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guy-SuCo) and its agent Surendra Engineering Corporation Ltd (SECL) contributed to the accident at the Corporation’s Enmore factory, which resulted in the death of dryer operator Jainarine Singh, the Commission of Inquiry (COI) set up to investigate the accident has found.

A 37-year-old man died yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was beaten the night before at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

Parents, guardians and students yesterday protested outside the offices of the Education Ministry to highlight non-placement at President’s College as well as the “deplorable” state of the school.