Guyana News

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang says an improved work ethic is required to significantly reduce the chronic case backlog in the system, particularly in a litigious society like Guyana where cases are being filed in staggering numbers.

Youths are concerned about the ethnic divide and “traditional racial voting” which they believe plagues General Elections in Guyana.

No mattresses, poor quality food, insanitary conditions and mosquitoes are part of life in the New Amsterdam Prisons.

A city businessman reportedly shot himself in the head early yesterday morning as he was driving home after “hanging out” at a Kitty bar.

The body of an unidentified man was yesterday midday found floating in the Demerara River beneath a wharf in Kingston.

Police yesterday during a search operation at Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara found more that seven kilogrammes of marijuana.

The first projects to be funded through the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) remain in the developmental stage 18 months after the forests’ saving agreement was sealed with Norway.

Last Saturday’s boat accident at the mining community of Bartica in which two persons sustained injuries adds to a growing number of such incidents, while the agencies that hold authority over the sector remain silent on their investigations.

Forty-eight-year-old Mary (not her real name) has had a pain-filled existence for most of her life, as a result of abuse in all forms that started from her childhood days.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dominique Strauss-Kahn was granted bail by a New York judge this afternoon, and the former IMF chief has vowed to fight charges that he tried to rape a hotel maid in Manhattan.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been formally charged over accusations he tried to rape a hotel maid, New York prosecutors said today.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board has  removed Shahid Afridi as one-day team captain for the  forthcoming series against Ireland.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Essex all-rounder Graham Napier  equalled the record for the number of sixes in a first-class  innings when he struck 16 in a county match against Surrey today.

CANNES, France, (Reuters) – The Cannes film festival  expelled Danish director Lars Von Trier today for jokingly  calling himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathiser, leaving the  world’s biggest cinema showcase in a state of shock.

(Trinidad Express) Cabinet is close to deciding on a way out of CL Financial’s debts by bringing back former chairman Lawrence Duprey to the collapsed insurance and energy conglomerate.

(Jamaica Observer) For the second time in three years, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has published a list of names of those wanted for alleged sex offences.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud confirmed that a US resident was arrested at an East Bank Demerara hotel this morning on suspicion that he is involved in narcotics trafficking and terrorism-related activities.

Popular businessman Victor Winston Warner was found dead in the bottom flat of his Richmond Village, Essequibo Coast home early this morning, and police suspect he was the victim of a robbery.

The Government of Dominica has warned about an outbreak of Leptospirosis which has claimed the lives of the Director Agriculture on the island and another man, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation.

ATLANTA (Reuters) – The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is an extreme example of alleged sexual assault by an elite member of the international community.