Cheryl Springer

A light Cessna 152 aircraft which was enroute from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana, crash-landed in a rice field on the island of Wakenaam shortly after lunchtime today.

A minibus carrying Gecom staff, polling agents from the various parties and ballots from the Disciplined Services voting today, turned over several times injuring some of its occupants after a car slammed into it at the corner of King and Robb streets tonight.

The Director of Public Prosecutions earlier this afternoon recommended that the suspect in Sunday’s shooting to death of Permaul Rampersaud be charged with manslaughter.

Guyanese model Amanda King leaves for Shanghai on Tuesday having placed among the top three at the Elite Caribbean model competition in Trinidad and Tobago on November 12.

At about 10.30 this morning police ranks stopped motor car PMM 9535 at Molsen Creek, Corentyne, and subsequently unearthed a total of 10 kgs of cocaine.

Four men, who were nabbed in Berbice by Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers yesterday with cocaine, were this afternoon arraigned on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and were remanded to prison.

Three men today appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to face the charge of murder committed on Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris on June 30 at her Robb Street home.

Guyana is now ranked at 117 on the United Nations Development Programme Human Development index; having moved up two points from last year, a report issued today said, and is one of the countries listed as having medium human development.

PARIS (Reuters) – The United Nations’ cultural agency decided today to give the Palestinians full membership of the body, a vote that will boost their bid for recognition as a state at the United Nations.

An unusual October snowstorm in New York today has resulted in Caribbean Airlines having to divert one of its flights from JFK International Airport to Buffalo.

Digicel’s network has been encountering problems since midday yesterday and according to the company’s Public Relations Officer Shonnet Moore technicians are working around the clock to rectify the situation.

Outgoing President Bharrat Jagdeo today lambasted Moses Nagamootoo, saying he is someone who does not deserve to be respected.

At around 9.30 this morning an Air Services Limited Cessna 206 aircraft, bearing the registration number 8RGGE, crashed on landing at Arau in Region Seven, during bad weather conditions.

Former minister of information in the PPP/C administration Moses Nagamootoo this afternoon announced that he has resigned from the Central Committee and as a member of the PPP with immediate effect.

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) seized 30 kilogrammes of cocaine in three buckets on Saturday night in an operation that saw the exchange of gunfire with drug traffickers, who then managed to escape in a boat at the Number 73 beach.

CN Sharma has stepped down as the presidential candidate for the Justice For All Party (JFAP) and has now declared his support for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).

Hundreds of people from all sections of Region 10 flood the Linmine Constabulary Drill Square at Linden this morning for the distribution of some 1,000 house lots.

John Blanchard, the father accused of murdering two of his children, was remanded to prison this morning by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A British national is in police custody after a spliff of ganja was found in his suitcase at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri this afternoon.

Channel 6 was back in operation just after lunch today after broadcaster CN Sharma received an official letter from President Bharrat Jagdeo saying that the suspension has been lifted until December 1.