Guyana News

Homestretch Avenue accident victim, 10-year-old Sean Archibald is still on life support in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, while the other three survivors are said to be doing fine and showing signs of improvement.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is launching its rally in Region 10 on Friday, July 29.

GEORGE TOWN, (Reuters) – Cayman Islands Premier W.  McKeeva Bush is being investigated by police over “an alleged  financial irregularity” in the British-ruled Caribbean  territory, the governor’s office said today. 

The Caricom Secretariat this evening announced that Dominican has been selected to serve as the seventh Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

The government today tabled the long-delayed broadcast legislation, which had been promised since the PPP/C took office in 1992.

The adopted son of Natalie Belmonte has been charged with her murder and authorities say a neighbour’s security video captured him getting rid of her body the night she disappeared from her Pembroke Pines home.

The driver of the bus in Monday’s Homestretch Avenue accident in which five persons perished was today charged with five counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s adviser on public engagements, Sasha Mohammed, yesterday tendered her resignation from the post “with immediate effect.”

(Trinidad Express) Delayed since May, low fares airline REDjet will finally start commercial flights between Trinidad and Barbados next Thursday.

(Jamaica Observer) Businessman Patrick Powell was yesterday charged with murder resulting from the shooting death of 17-year-old student Khajeel Mais and will face the court this morning.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – According to ex-Justice and Police minister Chandrikapersad Santokhi, the Special Security and Intelligence Service (SBID) was among others, trained by the CIA and the Dutch and French police.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Dubai port operator DP World has acquired controlling interest in two Suriname port companies.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The policeman who was reported to be the mastermind behind the theft of guns and ammunition from the police armoury was found guilty yesterday of illegal possession of 18 firearms and more than 9,000 rounds of ammunition.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The interim head of a CARICOM security body says a proposed project to facilitate the sharing of critical ballistics information among the Caribbean community could go a far way in smashing criminal networks involved in transnational organised crimes across the region.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet has been given clearance to spread its wings to Jamaica and that first flight could be in October.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Lord’s will host a test match  between England and West Indies in May or June next year, the  Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced today.

The AFC yesterday said it was disappointed at the Guyana Elections Commis-sion’s decision to allow the reopening of Claims and Objections, warning that it could lead to an extension of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s term.

The government will today table the National Registration (Amendment) Bill 2011 in the National Assembly, which will facilitate a new round of Claims and Objections  to the preliminary voters list.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a man who allegedly threatened to kill his mother because she refused to give him money to buy a phone card.

Police yesterday rearrested a taxi driver, who was held in connection with the murder of 17-year-old Ravendra Persaud.