Guyana News

Former senior director in the Caricom Secretariat’s Office of Trade Negotiations Carl Greenidge has demanded an explanation for the non-renewal of his contract.

Former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge has formally accepted the nomination to contest to be the PNCR’s presidential candidate at this year’s general elections.

A prominent Linden businessman was robbed and shot in his store yesterday afternoon by a lone gunman.

Dr Dindyal Permaul has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) with effect from January 1.

Over the weekend, robbers ripped open the flooring of the Mahaica Post Office, torched the safe and carted off  over  half a million dollars in cash.

A $220 million facility to assist small, rural farmer groups to improve their farming systems and processing activities was unveiled yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture.

The technical advisor within the Ministry of Education has been appointed Chief Education Officer, five years after the post was made vacant and became controversial after Genevieve Whyte-Nedd acted in the position until her retirement but was never appointed.

A man accused of robbing another was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000 when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A truck driver was yesterday charged with collecting $200,000 from another man by pretending to him that he was in a position to sell him a truck.

Police on the East Coast Demerara are working to establish a motive behind two arson attempts on schools in the area on Sunday; the most recent being a failed attempt on the Annandale Secondary School.

Mysterious hit-men with high powered rifles, gun-slinging robbers and blade wielding attackers left a trail of bodies throughout 2010 taking the murder count to 139 by year end.

Gold miner Kevin Bennette was yesterday remanded to prison for the attempted murder of a Bartica shop owner, who he stabbed during an argument on Boxing Day.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and a team recently inspected a number of possible sites for the construction of a new market at Mahaica.

Representatives from Teddies Diapers and the Teddies mascot delivered over 50 hampers to mothers of babies born on New Year’s Day, at hospitals in Georgetown.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari expressed full confidence yesterday in the country’s beleaguered prime minister, who is scrambling to prevent his government from falling after a key coalition partner quit.

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) – Almost 4 million southern Sudanese, or roughly half the south’s population, have registered to take part in an independence referendum next week that is likely to split Africa’s largest country in two, officials said yesterday.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – African leaders ended meetings in Ivory Coast yesterday without persuading Laurent Gbagbo to cede power to his rival Alassane Ouattara, but the talks will go on, one of the envoys said.

GRACEMERE, Australia (Reuters) – Military aircraft ferried supplies to an Australian town slowly sinking beneath swollen rivers yesterday, as record flooding in the country’s northeast severed roads and ports, curtailing coal exports and devastating farmland.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A would-be suicide jumper in New York was alive on Monday after leaping from a ninth-floor window but landing in a giant heap of garbage uncollected since the city’s massive snowstorm a week ago.

A Linden man was robbed and shot in his store this afternoon by a lone gunman.