Cheryl Springer

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Guyana FA president Colin Klass  became the second high-ranking official, and the fourth in all,  to be banned for their part in a bribery scandal when world  soccer’s ruling body FIFA suspended him today for 26 months.  

Cay Hill (St Martin News Network) — Mark Anthony Deygoo, the Guyanese business man who was shot multiple times on Wednesday evening in his Back Street store passed away early today at the St Maarten Medical Center.

Guyanese businessman Mark Deygoo is in a serious condition in the St.

A New York police officer is under investigation for allegedly engaging in a traffic ticket fixing operation and associating with a suspected Guyana-born drug dealer.

TORONTO, (Toronto Sun) – One of Canada’s “Most Wanted” criminals, who was convicted twice of beating women, has been deemed a threat to public security and denied release from custody by an immigration hearing.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that the police corporal who was implicated in last Thursday’s fatal shooting at a Stabroek Market food stand be charged with the capital offence of murder.

ZURICH  (AP) — Caribbean official Colin Klass has been summoned by FIFA to answer charges this week relating to $40,000 in bribes allegedly offered by former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.

DAEGU, South Korea (AFP) — Usain Bolt may have botched the defence of his world 100m crown, but the Jamaican came back to retain his 200m title and run the anchor in a world-record breaking 4x100m relay team.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s prime minister-elect Helle Thorning-Schmidt, began piecing together a disparate centre-left government today after an election which ended 10 years of centre-right rule in a voter backlash over the economy.

Two persons are dead and five injured in an early morning accident involving a truck that had just left Bartica for the mining fields in Region 7.

A violent convict, who was one of Canada’s Most Wanted, was arrested in the Toronto area this morning.

A 54-year-old Mon Repos counsellor was early this morning shot and killed at a Stabroek Market food stand.

(Reuters) – A magnitude 6 earthquake hit in the Caribbean Sea off the southern coast of Cuba today, the US Geological Survey said.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron today said his government would look to unfreeze a further 12 billion pounds ($18.9 billion)in Libyan assets if a United Nations Security Council resolution on Libya was passed.

TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion plans to open doors for its key corporate customers using a decade-old technology most in the smartphone industry eye as a way to turn phones into wallets.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said this afternoon that the death of 90-year-old security guard Adolphus James is now being treated as a murder after a post-mortem examination revealed that he died as a result of brain haemorrhage and compression injury to the neck.

A robbery convict’s bid for freedom was short lived this afternoon, when prison officers managed to recapture him minutes after he escaped.

A 28-year-old man was stabbed today and his assailant beaten, following an early morning drinking spree at Aranka, Cuyuni Region One.

An early morning fire today gutted three rooms of the the Wismar Christianburg Secondary School (WCSS) at Linden and classes have been suspended for the day.

A mother of seven was this morning brutally chopped by her husband at Rasta Country, Laluni Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.