Guyana News

All the bills passed by the National Assembly last year received President Bharrat Jagdeo’s assent, according to Speaker Ralph Ramkarran.

Minister of Tourism Manniram Prashad on Wednesday commissioned a “Giants of Guyana” billboard at the head of the Main Street avenue, as part of a bid to promote eco-tourism.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is hosting a two-day International Civil Aviation Organisation training course on Monday and Tuesday.

Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on January 1, replacing Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters Life!) – With sickles and   slingshots in hand, farmers in Indonesia are guarding chilli   plants from thieves, after prices for the much-loved spice   jumped five-fold in the past year to boost inflation and worry   the government.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French intelligence services are  investigating a possible Chinese connection in an industrial  espionage scandal at carmaker Renault, a government source said  yesterday.

NAIROBI/KAMPALA, (Reuters) – East African nations  could reap trade and investment opportunities worth billions of  dollars to help develop south Sudan if it splits from the north,  but they will have to compete with bigger rivals like China to  do so.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A package addressed to U.S.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited yesterday  at a postal facility in Washington, D.C.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A former British lawmaker was  jailed for 18 months yesterday for falsifying his expenses, the  first parliamentarian to be convicted over a 2009 scandal that  engulfed the nation’s political system.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan,  (Reuters) – A suicide bomber   killed 17 people, including a police commander, inside a   public bathhouse in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar yesterday   in the country’s worst attack in more than five months.

Popular Linden businessman Albert Joseph called `Bolo’, who was shot during a robbery last Monday, succumbed to his wound earlier this evening.

Mark Hoosein, 22 years of Fourth Street, Cummings Lodge, ECD, and Rhomayne Li, 18 years of Cummings Street, Alberttown, Georgetown, were today charged with unlawful possession of explosives and throwing an explosive in a public place and fined.

The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 0445h today at Non Pariel, ECD, during which Ramchand Rampadarat, 36 years, was shot and injured by a businessman who is also a licensed firearm holder.

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 7 pm yesterday at No.

A lone gunman robbed the A&R store in Linden and is now hiding in an empty building in the McKenzie business centre.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After months of uncertainty, it appears that The Bahamas will in fact be stepping in to save this year’s Carifta Games with an announcement expected to be made by North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletics Association President Neville ‘Teddy’ McCook as early as next week.

The PNCR today accused the PPP/C government of helming a plan to stay in office, a charge that the ruling party and the government have previously strenuously denied.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) today released the six names approved as nominees as the party’s presidential candidate.

(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn woman with a vise-like grip pleaded guilty on Tuesday to nearly maiming an NYPD cop by squeezing his genitals.

(BBC) Opposition MP Robin Yearwood has criticised the Antiguan government for removing Sir Gerald Watt as chairman of the country’s Electoral Commission.