Guyana News

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The hotel maid who accused  former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued  the New York Post and four of its reporters for libel today for reporting that she was a prostitute.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has stated that the Caricom heads of Government, at their meeting over the weekend in St Kitts, have agreed in principle to waive immunity from cocaine prosecution for individuals at the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs).

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO/BASSETERRE – When Suriname takes over the chairmanship of CARICOM on January 1, 2012, the country must have put its stamp on the organization by having achieved a number of goals.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname’s candidate for Secretary General (SG) of the CARICOM was unjustly excluded by the selection committee without any reason.

KARACHI, (Reuters) –  Pakistan  cricket’s endless parade of controversies and scandal has made  playing for the national team akin to ‘mental torture’,  according to captain   Misbah-ul-Haq.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British Government inquiry into  corruption allegations surrounding World Cup bids has accused  FIFA of trying to brush aside the evidence and has questioned  president Sepp Blatter’s commitment to reforming the  organisation.

Caricom Heads of Government have agreed to interview the short-listed candidates for the post of Caricom Secretary General within the next two weeks and committed to making a decision on the matter shortly after.

A former national youth footballer was shot dead with an arrow, which pierced his back, on Sunday night at Karasabai Village following an argument and the incident has left the football fraternity in Region Nine and Guyana in shock and deep mourning.

Steve Anthony Carew was left lying in a hammock at Black Water Landing, Region Eight with seven stab wounds for three days and though persons knew what had transpired no one tried to assist him.

A live newborn was last evening found abandoned in the Merriman’s Mall, Bourda.

A Partnership for National Unity presidential candidate David Granger has urged Lindeners to develop a spirit of forgiveness for those who they alleged planted the bomb on the Son Chapman that claimed the lives of 43 persons in the community.

A WikiLeaks cable from the US embassy in Brasilia in 2009 noted ongoing talks between Guyana and Brazil on a massive hydropower plant and said that President Bharrat Jagdeo’s thinking was that it would help to consolidate Georgetown’s hold on Essequibo which is the subject of a  longstanding controversy with Venezuela.

For Lindener Gem Elliot, the Women of Worth (WOW) programme has been a big boost to her catering business as since managing to get a bank loan she has expanded her operations.

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Orealla, Corentyne River resident,  allegedly by a police constable early yesterday morning in the Amerindian community.

A Linden parent is calling for action in an incident where her child, a student of Wisburg Secondary School, was denied the opportunity to complete end-of-year exams because she refused to apologise to a teacher.

While the spread of the leaf spot disease Black Sigatoka is being monitored by the authorities, its impact on other Caribbean territories has seen an increase in demand for plantains from the local market.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez was last Tuesday forced to dismiss the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) stolen transformer case based on the insufficiency of evidence with the failure of the prosecution to call key witnesses being the primary factor in its collapse.

Police at Bartica have detained a miner who cut open the stomach of a fellow miner following a drunken brawl at Takutu backdam last week.

A nine-year-old girl is now dead, and her five siblings are patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) as a result of suspected food poisoning.

Police on Sunday found an unlicensed gun and matching cartridges in a camp at Manacura, Matthew’s Ridge, North West District.