Guyana News

With about 60 per cent of the project time having already elapsed, the Amaila Falls access road project at the end of March was only about 22 per cent complete prompting the government to advise contractor Fip Motilall to subcontract some of the work as well as to increase his labour force on the site.

A security guard was early yesterday morning attacked by gunmen who later broke into a Campbellville poultry outlet and stole $10,000.

AMMAN (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday emergency law in place for almost 50 years in Syria would be lifted by next week but ignored popular demands to curb the security apparatus and dismantle its authoritarian system.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – IMF member nations, acknowledging resistance from emerging markets to limits on capital controls, said rich nations’ policies that spur large capital outflows that could harm other economies also need oversight.

CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court yesterday ordered the dissolution of former President Hosni Mubarak’s political party, meeting a demand of the pro-democracy movement whose protests ended his 30-year authoritarian rule.

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan looked set for a close race against ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari yesterday as results trickled in from a vote broadly deemed to have been the most credible for decades.

AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan rebels made a renewed effort to push towards the oil port of Brega yesterday while Muammar Gaddafi’s forces pounded besieged Misrata to the west with rockets and mortars, a rebel spokesman said.

At about 2010h yesterday, businessman Anthony Charles, 77 years, along with his wife Rose and a maid were at home with the door to their home open, when two men armed with handguns entered and held them up.

Balram Teekaram of Anna Catherina, WCD, who was injured during an armed robbery at his home on April 13, 2011, succumbed at the GPHC at about 0330h.

The West Indies Players Association has questioned the omission of three senior players from the one-day team to face Pakistan.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad said  today emergency law in place for almost 50 years in Syria  would be lifted by next week but ignored popular demands to curb  the security apparatus and dismantle its authoritarian system.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ten policyholders seeking to recover their investments in Colonial Life Insurance Co Ltd (Clico) yesterday filed a petition to wind up the troubled financial institution.

(Go Jamaica) The Sugar Association of the Caribbean says Jamaica led the production output in its member states last month.

(Barbados Nation) A staggering rise in financial crime has forced the Royal Barbados Police Force to expand the squad probing those cases and also seek foreign help.

Although the issue has not been discussed at the party level, aspiring President Donald Ramotar has not ruled out the possibility of current President Bharrat Jagdeo returning as a cabinet member should the PPP/C win this year’s general and regional elections.

Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks last evening seized over 50 pounds of cocaine in Corriverton, Berbice and arrested two persons.

A New York-based Guyanese couple, here for a vacation after more than two decades away, had their return spoilt when they where held at gunpoint and relieved of cash and a quantity of gold jewellery, just after arriving from the airport yesterday.

Lawrence Dundas, 51, a supervisor in the Accountant General’s Department, was yesterday charged with embezzling $1.6M stolen from the pension fund of a retired teacher.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has invited the presidential candidates from the three major political parties to share their vision for the country at special business luncheons to be held over the next month and a half.

As more councillors voiced their displeasure with the appointment of Yonette Pluck-Cort as substantive Town Clerk, Mayor Hamilton Green expressed his disappointment that the councillors were not instead devoting their energies towards the management of the city.