Cheryl Springer

Three days after she was snatched at gunpoint, shipping clerk Gail Perreira was released last night and was being questioned by the police this morning.

A serving member of the military, his wife and another man were over the weekend arrested and read charges of treason against the Government of Guyana.

A motorcyclist was shot in the leg during an armed robbery at the Texaco Gas Station, Mandela Avenue last night.

The decomposing body of a man was on Boxing Day fished out of a trench on Carifesta Avenue and is now lying at the Lyken Funeral Home.

Well-known actor Lyndon ‘Jumbie’ Jones, who was forced to spend Christmas behind bars after police arrested him on Christmas Eve night accusing him of robbery under arms, was this afternoon simply released from the Brickdam lockups without being questioned or charged and without having to post any bail.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B singer and songwriter Teena Marie, best known for the hit 1980s singles “Lovergirl” and “Ooo La La La,” died at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday, according to news reports.

President Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon offered sugar workers a 5% one-off pay increase which they will receive before the end of the year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Richard Holbrooke, who was President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, died today, CNN reported citing a senior US official.

Customs officials today discovered a 12-gauge Winchester shotgun with telescopic lens in a barrel that was being cleared at the time at Muneshwer’s Wharf, Water Street, Georgetown.

Gunmen today made off with a quantity of jewellery after robbing a family at Gangaram Settlement, East Canje, Berbice.

The police are investigating the stabbing to death of a 25-year-old woman by another female yesterday in the North West District.

(Jamaica Observer) – Celebrated Jamaican scientist Dr Henry Lowe will this evening announce the launch of a research and development institute, which will develop pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals from indigenous Jamaican plants.

(Trinidad Express) A United States soldier and his friend were shot dead when gunmen attempted to relieve the soldier of a silver Nissan Almera motorcar early yesterday, police said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A delegation from the Association for the Resettlement of Returning Residents is expected to meet with the British High Commissioner to Jamaica today.

Heavy winds, the result of a sudden and short storm around 9 am today lifted a house off the ground and deposited it almost in a neighbour’s yard, in addition to causing other damage at Bath Housing Scheme, West Coast Berbice.

LISBON (Reuters) – NATO endorsed a plan today to hand control of security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014 and the alliance’s leader said the NATO-led force would cease combat operations by then.

(Trinidad Express) – Opposition MP Patrick Manning last night questioned where the money being used to construct the private house of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, which he described as “Kamla’s palace”, was coming from.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The body of the late Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs will be laid to rest today following the funeral at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston.

Two armed men tried to stick up a Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara businesswoman shortly before midnight last night, but were forced to flee empty-handed after she started screaming uncontrollably for help.

A recent report has found that there has been a 5.7% increase of Guyanese students studying in the US, representing a slight increase after five years of decline, the US Embassy in Georgetown stated today in a release.