Cheryl Springer

Executive Director and Chief Distiller at Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), George Leslie Robinson, 63, has died.

(BVI Platinum News) – Police are conducting investigations after the body of a male Guyanese native was discovered on Thursday morning, under a guinep tree on a vacant property alongside Fine Foods Supermarket on the eastern end of Tortola.

Well! Is that really what it’s all about? Chutney, soca, hip-hop, calypso, dancing, wining and busing out are what make a political rally?

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) today urged the opposition parties against participating in the upcoming polls unless “minimum standards” to guarantee free expression and equal access to media are in place.

(Reuters) Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died today at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues.

Jamaica Gleaner) – Education Minister, Andrew Holness, is set to become Jamaica’s next Prime Minister after his parliamentary colleagues put aside their own ambitions to endorse his candidacy to become leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

The police have recovered two more bodies, which are yet to be identified, from the Piari Landing robbery boat mishap, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud confirmed today.

The police are investigating the alleged kidnapping of fisherman Rasheed Bridgemohan called “Convict”, 36, of North West District.

A candlelight vigil will be held outside Channel Six at the corner of Robb and Wellington streets tonight and all are invited to join in solidarity with CN Sharma following the suspension of his broadcast licence by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

CN Sharma was slapped with a four-month suspension following a one-hour meeting with President Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon.

Residents of the Berbice River, Region 10 are in search of a man who is missing and feared drowned after the boat he was in sank.

Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and her Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro will meet in Port of Spain tomorrow, a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

(Jamaica Observer) – Prime Minister Bruce Golding says he will address the nation “in good time” on the reasons for his sudden decision to resign as prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

(Trinidad Express) – A high court judge yesterday ordered the now defunct CLICO Investment Bank (CIB) to repay a $700 million deposit to the National Insurance Board.

(Trinidad Guradian) A jury yesterday was told a horrible story of how a four-year-old girl was strung up by her hair and punched 20 to 30 times, allegedly by her stepfather.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Images of Michael Jackson lying dead in a hospital and rehearsing the day before his death, along with recollections of the singer as a troubled “lost boy,” made for a heart-wrenching opening yesterday to the manslaughter trial of the doctor hired to care for him.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The wife of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose detention sparked an international outcry, has urged lawmakers to reject draft legislation that would cement in law police powers to hold dissidents in secret locations without telling their families.

(Barbados Nation) – More marijuana “plantations” are popping up across the island as authorities clamp down on smuggling between Barbados and long-standing prolific drug source St Vincent.

The Government of Venezuela yesterday issued a statement in response to Guyana’s submission of a claim to an extended continental shelf, saying it had started to “assess this irregular situation” and was taking the necessary action to preserve the law with respect to its “maritime façade.”

A man and a baby are dead following a head-on collision involving a truck and a minibus at 35 Miles Mabura Road.