Guyana News

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – IMF Managing Director  Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody today at  JFK airport in New York and was being questioned in regard to a  sexual assault, a New York police spokesman told Reuters.

At about 1215h. today contractor Floyd Dalton, 43 years of Bagotstown, EBD, was about to enter his motor vehicle in the service station compound at New Market and Camp Street, Georgetown, when he was confronted by an armed man who shot him to his left side and took away his

(Trinidad Guardian) Agricultural commodity trader Czarnikow Group London formally opened its sugar warehouse on the Point Lisas Industrial Estate on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Over TT$3.6 million was spent on private jet travel between 2007 and May 2010 by former prime minister Patrick Manning, Foreign Affairs Minister Suruj Rambachan revealed yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Patrick Manning has been found guilty of contempt of Parliament by the Privileges Committee.

PROVIDENCE, Guyana, (Reuters) – Pakistan recovered  from losing three early wickets to reach 80 for three at the  close on a remarkable third day of the first test against West  Indies today leaving them 139 runs short of victory.

(Go Jamaica) Former Prime minister, P.J. Patterson, has added his support to a move by the Government to replace the Queen as head of state before Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of Independence next year August.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Michel Martelly, a  charismatic singer with no government experience, was sworn in  as Haiti’s president today, shouldering a daunting task  of reconstruction in his poor, earthquake-battered nation.

A fifth suspected bandit in a shoot-out with St Lucia police died on Wednesday intensifying pressure on Castries over concerns about possible extra-judicial killings.

The U.S. Federal Reserve has proposed new rules aimed at protecting consumers who remit money to relatives in countries in the Caribbean, Latin America and elsewhere.

(Barbados Nation) Far too many Blacks from the Caribbean are catching hell in Canada largely because of institutional racism and poverty.

Guyanese Christine Persaud will have another chance in a New York court to argue that her business was unlawfully taken away from her, according to Black Star News.

The Steering Committee of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) met Thursday but gave no final approval for projects to access funds from Guyana’s forests’ agreement with Norway as work remains to be done on the one submitted.

During a recent meeting with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), opposition parties emphasised the need for “a level playing field” in the upcoming elections campaign period.

Another Rupununi bridge caved-in under the weight of a truck last month, limiting travel to and from several Deep South Rupununi communities and access to essential supplies as rains flood the area.

Leslie Fredericks is racing against time to save his son’s life.

Programme Director at CNS Channel Six Savitree Sharma has offered an “unequivocal apology” to ERC Chairman Juan Edghill for the “embarrassment and damage to character” aired in a commentary by Anthony Vieira on May 4.

Robberies are reportedly occurring daily in the Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara area and on Thursday night an armed gang stormed the home of Surajdai Jaipaul and fled with $4 million in cash and jewellery.

The PNCR’s youth arm, the Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM), will today be holding its National Youth Convention, where the discussions held are expected to form the basis of the party’s countrywide youth strategy for the forthcoming elections.

The local workforce involved in the construction of the Amaila hydropower plant is likely to be less than what was projected in the updated ESIA, Sithe Global’s Senior Vice President Jim McGowan says.