Guyana News

Eight criminal matters were completed in the January 2011 Criminal Assizes that came to an end on March 31, according to a press release from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Newly appointed US special envoy Princeton Lyman will depart today for meetings in Ethiopia and Sudan on the transition of South Sudan to independence in July, the State Department said.

Vernon Paddy, the Guyanese man who had pleaded guilty to a vicious attack on his wife with a 14-inch hammer in May of last year, was sentenced to eight years in prison by Justice Indra Hariprashad-Charles in a British Virgin Island (BVI) court.

Four persons were injured last evening after the vehicle they were travelling in careened off the East Bank Demerara highway, cleared a trench and landed in the compound of a mosque at McDoom.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Fierce fighting spread across Abidjan yesterday as troops loyal to Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo fended off attacks by forces supporting Alassane Ouattara’s rival claim to the presidency.

Only 2% of 24,329 samples taken in 2010 showed significant adulteration – a sign of smuggled fuel – the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) said yesterday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Internet business networking service LinkedIn allowed users to connect with Ernest Hemingway.

BREGA, Libya, (Reuters) – A Western coalition air  strike hit a group of rebels on the eastern outskirts of Brega  late yesterday, killing at least 10 of them, rebel fighters at  the scene said today.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – At least five  people have been killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar,  on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Koran  by an obscure U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Economic Development Board is an important initiative in the restructuring of the economy of T&T says Mary King, Minister of Planning, Economic and Social Restructuring and Gender Affairs.

(Barbados Nation) Bring in “credible” foreign independent investigators to find out what really happened at Grantley Adams International Airport with the Jamaican woman Shanique Myrie.

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0915h today on America Street, Georgetown, on Ronald Narine, 40 years of ‘D’ Field Sophia during which $3 million was snatched by two men armed with handguns.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Bruce Golding today denied that he was responsible for tipping off Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke about an extradition request for the former Tivoli Gardens strongman.

Only 2% of 24,329 samples taken in 2010 showed significant adulteration – a sign of smuggled fuel – the Guyana Energy Agency said today.

Four armed bandits early this morning invaded the Sophia home of an elderly couple.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – At least  eight foreign U.N. workers were killed, two of them beheaded, today in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif after a  demonstration against the burning of Korans by a U.S.

(Barbados Nation) International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has agreed to invest up to US$100 million (BDS$200 million) in Barbadian-based Sagicor Financial Corporation (SFC) to bolster market confidence in the insurance industry and to expand insurance services in the Caribbean.

(Barbados Nation) Police have reported that investigations into allegations by a Jamaican drug accused that she was sexually assaulted and raped by two police officers are at a delicate stage.

(Barbados Nation) Chevron Corporation, owner of Texaco, has completed the sale of its fuels marketing and aviation businesses in Barbados, as well as the Eastern Caribbean countries of Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, St Kitts and Trinidad & Tobago.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Cricket fever has gripped  the sub-continent on the eve of the World Cup final between  India and Sri Lanka on Saturday.