Guyana News

Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall has resigned from the National Assembly making one government seat vacant.

A group of fake nursing schools defrauded mostly Caribbean immigrants out of thousands of dollars and gave them sham certificates,New York’s attorney general said on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

(TrinidadExpress) A previously undisclosed document, detailing claims that Works Minister and former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner handed a senior Caribbean football official a locked case containing envelopes of cash to be distributed to members of the Caribbean Football Union at a special meeting in Port of Spain promoting Mohamed bin Hammam’s FIFA presidential bid, has surfaced.

(TrinidadExpress) “If the court didn’t take my children away from me, they would have been alive today.”

Canada’s Immigration Minister Jason Kenney confirmed on Wednesday that as many as 1,800 new Canadians could be stripped of their citizenship because documents were fraudulently obtained, according to a report in the Toronto Star.

The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 1000h yesterday at St Lucia Hill, Tiger Creek, Mahdia, where ColinBroomes, 44 years of Corriverton, Berbice, was allegedly shot by a man.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen struck the India  bowlers to all parts of Lord’s today during a majestic  unbeaten innings of 202 on a sun-dappled second day of the first  test.

OSLO, (Reuters) – A gunman dressed in police uniform  opened fire at a youth camp of Norway’s ruling political party  today, killing at least 80 people, hours after a bomb killed  seven in the government district in the capital Oslo.

(Trinidad Express) A mother and her two young children were found murdered at their Plumbago Avenue, La Horquetta, home yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) History was created yesterday in the St Mary Circuit Court when a senior citizen who sexually molested his 50-year-old stepdaughter when she was four years old got a 12-month jail sentence for indecent assault.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The attorneys representing Patrick Powell, the businessman charged with the murder of 17-year-old Khajeel Mais, yesterday expressed disgust at what they claim was the discourtesy shown to them by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

(Barbados Nation) Twenty-three men perished in Barbados last year to the deadly AIDS virus.

(Barbados Nation) Attorney Vonda Pile was placed on Bds$500 000 bail and ordered to report weekly to Central Police Station, yesterday when she appeared before the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on four charges, including two of money laundering.

The National Assembly yesterday passed legislation to facilitate the reopening of a new round of Claims and Objections to the preliminary voters list, but without the support of the AFC.

Caricom Heads of Govern-ment have selected Ambas-sador Irwin LaRocque to serve as the seventh Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community.

Jormin Jackson who is accused of causing the death of five persons in Monday’s  Homestretch Avenue accident was yesterday remanded to prison when he made his appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of dog-slaughter, while a third was placed on $60,000 bail for malicious damage to property.

Two employees of the Clear Connect Call Centre were last night struck down on Lamaha Street at approximately 8:15 pm and are said to be severely injured.

Members of the private sector of Brazil have expressed a strong desire for the fast-tracking of negotiations between the Guyana and Brazilian governments as it relates to the upgrading of the Lethem to Linden road.

A locally-based Italian, accused of robbing a woman of $1.3M worth of cell phones and other items, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.