Guyana News

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The jatropha bio-diesel project that the Indian companies Food Fats and Fertilizers Limited (FFF) and Enhanced Bio-fuels and Technology Private Limited (EBT) wanted to start in Suriname has been scrapped.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Ronny “Kleine” Rattan (30), who is on the police’s Most Wanted-list, was arrested in the Livorno area yesterday afternoon.

David Granger will lead the Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP) into the upcoming general elections under the banner of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), which will present a single list of candidates.

(Trinidad Express) Irish mobile phone services provider Digicel Group Ltd has shown what it calls robust growth in its financial performance for its year ended March 31, 2011.

(Trinidad Express) A 36-year-old man from Curepe is expected to appear before a Sangre Grande magistrate today charged with bigamy.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Yesterday, shocking information emerged in Parliament about safety on local flights, particularly to the hinterland.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – West Indies pace bowler Ravi  Rampaul has been fined 10 percent of his match fee for dissent  after disputing an umpire’s decision in the first test against  India, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said today.

(Trinidad Express) Business mogul Lawrence Duprey yesterday made moves to stall the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of financial conglomerate CL Financial, scheduled to kick off on Monday.

(Barbados Nation) Local basketball isn’t just paying lip service to cleaning up the sport’s image.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – The U.N. war crimes  tribunal for Rwanda today sentenced former families minister  Pauline Nyiramasuhuko to life in prison for genocide and  incitement to rape, the court said.

The World Bank yesterday approved a $2B (US$10M) loan to support the University of Guyana’s science and technology faculty.

Two children are dead after they rode into a car along the One Mile Wismar Road, Linden yesterday.

A third man charged with the marijuana bust at the John Fernandes Wharf was yesterday remanded to prison after making an appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, after CANU searched two cellular phones.

Members of the Joint Services yesterday searched areas along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway and parts of Timehri for the two teenage girls who vanished from Yarrowkabra on Tuesday night.

Guyana has made insufficient progress towards improving maternal health and is not on track to reach the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), according to a new United Nations report which has assessed the state of midwifery globally.

Alliance For Change leader Raphael Trotman has described as “frightening” a recent directive from Police Commissioner Henry Greene to restrict divisional commanders from speaking with members of the press.

Some 20 minibus operators yesterday staged a strike in Bartica, after the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) reassigned their First Avenue parking lot to hire cars.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said Cabinet has cleared four contracts including one for $504M for Amelia’s Ward.

The re-tender for the supply of computers for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project was yesterday launched on www.eprocure.gov.gy.

Disc Jockey Nerissa Pearson, who was assaulted by an army officer on Sunday, does not believe the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is taking the incident seriously and is calling on relevant officials to take action.