Guyana News

Presidential candidates representing the PPP/C, the PNCR and the AFC are to meet the business community at separate luncheons beginning later this month.

The police have issued bulletins for two more persons wanted in connection with a fraud at the Accountant General’s Department.

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 11 pm yesterday at Bella Dam, WBD, during which businessman

The police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0930h today at Orangestein, East Bank Essequibo, which resulted in the death of

At about 0340h today an armed robbery occurred at Latchman Singh Street, Mon Repos, ECD, during which overseas-based Guyanese Loreta Mapura, 55 years, and her husband Kadar Mapura, 56 years, were attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

SANAA/AMMAN, (Reuters) – Mass protests spread to  the capital of Syria for the first time today and looked  closer than ever to driving out the leader of Yemen, nearly four  months since unrest erupted across the Arab world.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — President Bouterse does not want police to act like Hitler’s Gestapo.

(Trinidad Express) Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner said yesterday he was in the dark as to how new Caribbean airline REDjet got the go-ahead to operate in Trinidad and Tobago.

One of the ten persons, for whom bulletins were issued by the police in relation to alleged fraud committed at the Accountant General’s Department, was today remanded after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates Court.

(Barbados Nation) The Launch of the Caribbean’s newest airline Redjet has been met with a deluge of early bookings for its US$9.99 fares and CEO Ian Burns yesterday declared “the war on high air fares has truly begun”.

(St Vincent Searchlight newspaper) Flash flooding in parts of St Vincent has left millions of dollars in damage, the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) has reported.

Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall has appointed Yonette Pluck-Cort as Town Clerk—a move that some councillors fear will result in “a total breakdown in respect.”

Essequibo businessman Ganesh Jaigobin was shot twice yesterday on Regent Street in the city and the lone gunman fled with a bag containing an undisclosed amount of cash.

An employee of Bobby Noel’s General Store was crushed to death yesterday when a sand pit caved in on him at the Wisroc One Mile junction.

Anna Catherina resident Balram Teekaram, who was attacked by bandits on Wednesday morning, suffered a gunshot wound in the eye and a broken jaw and doctors have told his family that his condition is deteriorating.

President Bharrat Jagdeo toured a $400M five-storey complex at Charity, Essequibo Coast during a weekend visit to Region Two while lauding the recent upsurge in private sector investment countrywide.

President Bharrat Jagdeo, members of the private sector and other stakeholders met on Tuesday to continue dialogue at the Seventh Session of the National Competitiveness Council (NCC).

A vendor yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry for allegedly slapping and threatening to kill a woman with whom he has had an intimate relationship for four years.

A man who was accused of robbing another of $248,000 while being armed with a broken bottle, and who claimed that he was in a scuffle with the said complainant over $1,000, was yesterday remanded to prison by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Should PPP presidential candidate Donald Ramotar win office there are unlikely to be any sweeping changes to the country’s constitution but advice may be sought on altering the immunity from prosecution afforded to presidents.