Cheryl Springer

(Jamaica Gleaner) Guyanese  Ivan Noel who has pleaded guilty to importing 21 pounds of cocaine into the island is to be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on June 28.

A mid-morning argument between neighbours, over a game bird, has left one person critical and two others nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital after an irate man opened fire in Middle Street, McDoom.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Liberia closed its border with Ivory Coast today but did not confirm the claim by Abidjan that gunmen who killed seven United Nations peacekeepers, eight civilians and a soldier had come from its territory.

BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers agreed today to lend Spain up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) to shore up its teetering banks and Madrid said it would specify precisely how much it needs once independent audits report in just over a week.

The liabilities of Guyana Stores Ltd (GSL) at the time of its sale by the state and whether its assets had been stripped were among issues that arose as NICIL’s head Winston Brassington was cross-examined on Friday in a case where NICIL is seeking to recover an outstanding sum of US$2M which formed part of the purchase price.

PARIS (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova was crowned the new queen of Roland Garros after she kept her poise to outwit and outpower diminutive Italian Sara Errani 6-3 6-2 to complete her collection of grand slam trophies today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Convicted gangster, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke’s lawyer, Stephen Rosen says his client will not appeal the 23 year sentence he was handed in a United States Federal court yesterday.

A 38-year-old mother of four was early this morning beaten to death with an iron pipe by a man with whom she shared a relationship.

A police constable was shot numerous times with arrows at Monkey Mountain Region Eight on Wednesday and had to be air dashed to Georgetown today for emergency medical attention.

(Barbados Nation) Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has reportedly fallen ill in Barbados where she is attending the Mexico-Caricom Summit at the Hilton Hotel.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Law enforcement agents have arrested another high profile figure from the West Kingston community, on an extradition warrant.

Two Lindeners are hospitalized following a collision–between the car they were in and one driven by former government minister Dr Henry Jeffrey–which occurred today at the intersection of the University of Guyana Road and the Rupert Craig Highway.

(NY Newsday) – Disco singer Donna Summer has died, according to TMZ.

Seventy-one-year-old Karamchand Panchoo called ‘Guru’ was this morning found face down in a pool of blood at Tage fowl farm located at Don Robin on the Corentyne, where he worked as a security guard.

A two-car smash up at Rosignol has left a man dead and several other people injured.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist and fashion world pioneer who created a natural look in the 1960s and built a multimillion-dollar business on his name, died on Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia.

Law enforcement officials today made another big cocaine bust in Berbice before the drugs could leave the country for Suriname and several persons are being questioned by police.

CGX Energy Inc is moving on to other locations in its hunt for oil after drilling at the Eagle-1 location in the Corentyne Basin proved to be futile, with the company now having to raise an additional US$20 million to finance the added drilling days spent at that site.

The police are on the hunt for the driver who struck down and killed a La Grange, West Bank Demerara, fish vendor early this morning.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang this afternoon threw out the Constitutional Motion brought by government to challenge the numerical make up of parliamentary select committees saying that the court had no authority.