Guyana News

With road fatalities for the year recorded at 68 by the end of last week, the opposition coalition APNU has called for an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate the causes of the carnage and to make proposals for safer roads.

The Miss Guyana World 2011 Swimsuit Segment was hosted on Friday evening at Le Meridien Pegasus and was off to a “true Guyanese start,” according to Franchise Holder Carwyn Holland after the event began 70 minutes later than scheduled.

Two Stabroek Market vendors accused of assaulting each other last week appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

The Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday  held a stakeholders’ meeting with representatives from the agencies concerned with the execution of quarantine laws and practices and the ministry’s consultant says quarantine systems need to be better manned.

About 54 residents from the Demerara River community of Tenabu and its environs recently benefitted from the Rotary Club of Demerara’s longstanding medical outreach initiative in the area.

The National Library and the University of Guyana Library were the recipients of book donations from Canada-based auditor Lal Balkaran.

A 22-year-old man accused of wounding another was on Friday placed on $25,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) recently focused on reshaping of the architecture and governance for crime and security in the region so as to achieve increased benefits for member states, according to a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.

WASHINGTON, -As U.N. talks keep failing to agree  how to raise money to protect forests, private investors are  testing a trade in credits to slow the deforestation that emits  as much carbon as all the world’s cars, ships, trucks and  planes.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The New York hotel maid who  accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting  to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek’s  website today that he appeared as a “crazy man” and  attacked her when she entered his room.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Diego Forlan scored twice  after Luis Suarez’s opening goal as Uruguay beat Paraguay 3-0 to  win the Copa America yesterday and be crowned South American  champions for a record 15th time.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England required nine further  wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series against  world number one side India at the close of the penultimate day  of the first test at Lord’s today.

(Trinidad Express) Best friends Abigail Johnson and Allana Duncan, along with construction worker Kerron “Fingers” Eccles, were shot dead by police on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidadians Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester are among three football officials who were yesterday banned by the FIFA Ethics Committee, under the chairmanship of Petrus Damaseb of Namibia.

(Trinidad Express) Two senior officials at the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs), earlier this year were part of an illegal plan to evade taxes and duties in relation to the purchase of an almost TT$700,000 Toyota Prado SUV.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As the Jamaican society continues to reel from the gory practice of beheadings being perpetrated by hoodlums, a fourth person suffered the horrific fate early yesterday, but miles away from the ghastly scene of the first three.

SUNDVOLLEN, Norway, (Reuters) – Norway mourned today 93 people killed in a shooting spree and car bombing by a  Norwegian who saw his attacks as “atrocious, but necessary” to  defeat liberal immigration policies and the spread of Islam.

(BarbadosNation) The Barbados Auto Racing League (BARL) is being plagued by internal conflict weeks before it mounts one of the major rally events.

(BarbadosNation) Policyholders inBarbados say they are buoyed by Friday’s High Court judgment handed down in Trinidad & Tobago against the financially troubled Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO).

CNS Channel 6 has dropped the Christopher Ram/Ramon Gaskin talk show ‘Keeping Them Honest’ from its programming following discussions with the “relevant authorities” over the programme’s content.