Guyana News

Five suspects are in custody in connection with a $16 million fraud detected at Clico Life Insurance, police said yesterday.

Secretary-General of the International Criminal Organisation (Interpol), Ronald Noble says he is pleased with Guyana’s security arrangements for the hosting of Cricket World Cup (CWC).

Four persons have won the right to represent Guyana in Trinidad next month at the finals of the Qaseeda competition.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after over 100 grammes of cocaine, marijuana and a quantity of ecstasy tablets were found at a Princes Street house yesterday afternoon, when members of the Custom Anti-Narcotics Unit carried out a raid there.

The dead body of a male person of African descent was found on Sheriff Street, in the vicinity of Subryanville on Sunday night, the police have reported.

Police in Guyana have arrested one person in connection with T&T$5.3 million cocaine seizure last week in Trinidad, while alleged interference with the investigation by a lawyer is being investigated, according to a press release.

Residents of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, are calling on the authorities to have urgent repairs done to a damaged bridge on the Railway Embankment as they fear a serious accident may occur on the bridge.

Talks regarding an agreed framework for enhanced political cooperation between the government and the parliamentary opposition are unlikely to resume before the upcoming Cricket World Cup.

PNCR-1G MP Dr George Norton is recommending that the government commission a study to determine the success or failure rate of the Cuban Miracle Eye Care programme in Guyana.

Carl Hooper abruptly quit international cricket, not because he wanted to be mean, rather the former West Indies captain feels he was forced out of the team well before his planned departure.

The addition of the Buddy’s International Hotel to the skyline of the East Bank of Demerara is undoubtedly a major development and the proprietor Mr Omprakash Shivraj must be complimented for his perseverance and investment.

This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora.

What were your favourite songs at this year’s soca and calypso competitions?

Newcomer on the local track and field scene, Kim Chan, took the Enmore Community Centre ground by storm yesterday when she recorded her first double in her short career at the final installment of the Developmental meeting.

Despite driving with a severe disability, motor-racer, Kemal Rahaman, scorched the race track yesterday to win two out of three Group Two `B’ races at the National Motor Racing championship at the South Dakota Circuit.

It was in the month of September 2005, when well-known boxing coach, Donald Allison was gunned down outside of the Ricola Gym at Agricola.

Declaring that it would “be a tragedy of mammoth proportions if the CCJ was not allowed for whatever reasons to realise its full potential”, the President of the court says the regional private sector needs to be more aware of the role of the CCJ.

The US Government is expected to present additional charges against Guyanese businessman, Roger Khan when he makes another court appearance in New York this afternoon.

Dear Editor, I hesitated for a long time to write this letter on American and Western foreign policy since all your letter publications on this subject have been of the so-called “liberal” and anti-Bush or anti-Blair genre.

Dear Editor, Guyana is in the middle of a silent, deadly, social upheaval, referred to by one leading Caribbean economist as the “insertion of criminal enterprise into the interstices of the state”, and the recent extraordinary outbursts against Christianity by two government ministers in Parliament (for which they have not apologized; and which still remain part of the official record of that session) illustrate the religious implications.