Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) The Integrity Commission has cleared Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of any breach of the Integrity in Public Life Act when she stayed at the private residence of her friends Ralph and Maureen Gopaul last year.

(Trinidad Express) Exactly one week after the bodies of Vonetta Haynes-Reyes and her sons Makasi and Malik were found at their La Horquetta home, a 23-year-old neighbour of the victims has been detained by police in connection with the murders.

PARAMARIBO – The United Nations (UN) has donated about US$1 million to Suriname to better protect its natural resources such as Bigi Pan (Nickerie) and the mangrove-forests before the coast of Coronie and Saramacca.

Bollywood actress and reality TV star Shilpa Shetty is scheduled to appear at the Chutney/Bollywood/Filmi segment of Jamzone.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ speedy response to an ultimatum from FIFA, the world governing body, could allow it to escape without any sanctions.

The long-delayed Broadcasting Bill was yesterday passed in the National Assembly, where it was condemned by the main opposition PNCR-1G as a travesty of justice, but received support from the AFC.

A woman travelling from Guyana to the US was on Wednesday busted at New York’s JFK airport with 17.5 kilos of cocaine stashed in her luggage, in El Dorado rum and in food cans.

Eight persons, including two women are in police custody following a shooting at the Hogstye, Corentyne backdam around 5 pm on Wednesday which left a farmer dead and his younger brother seriously injured.

Some toshaos are not happy with aspects of a resolution calling on the governments of Norway and Guyana to intervene to expedite the release of funds from the two countries forests’ partnership and were upset further by an attempt to openly list the names of those who did not sign on.

A suspected burglar was early yesterday morning fatally shot while fleeing from police a street away from his own home, at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara,.

Police have released the co-owner of Guyana Sandport Inc, who was held with presidential guards and others who allegedly stormed the East Bank Demerara facility and damaged a conveyor belt early Tuesday morning.

Nigel Adams was yesterday slapped with more embezzlement charges, stemming from a fraud at the Accountant General’s Department of the Finance Ministry.

The seven persons accused of the $7M Bel Air Gardens robbery were yesterday further remanded to prison by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The Harpy Eagle flight cage at the Zoological Park, Georgetown is set to finally become a reality, with the award of the contract for its construction.

By Bobby Walker The corner of Camp and Middle streets stinks and GWI says years of oily discharge from Church’s Chicken has created a blockage and the sewage has backed up, something the fast food business denies.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has said that no forceps were used in the delivery of a child, at the centre of a newspaper report that suggested that the hospital erred in the procedure.

Cliffton Dowden yesterday denied that he was responsible for an office break-in and theft, telling acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court that he was given the stolen items to sell.

The Buxton Youth Developers (BYD) of East Coast Demerara now has a place to conduct educational and recreational activities thanks to the Canadian High Commission and the Rotary Club of Georgetown, which have funded the construction of a multipurpose building, bleacher, and sanitary block to aid the group in its endeavours.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday donated US$48,053 ($9,658,653) to the Rights of the Child Commission, for a birth registration survey and the crafting of a strategic plan for the Commission.

One hundred and eighty-six female single parents and 169 students yesterday graduated with skills in six occupational disciplines, which it is envisaged will make them marketable in society.