Obama man sent back (Trinidad Guardian) UNC Political Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the deportation of Bernie Campbell — the former campaign strategist of Barack Obama — is an international disgrace that will affect diplomatic relations between T&T and the US.
Five persons were yesterday charged after they allegedly offered inducements to the young girls at the centre of the child molestation case against Chandra Narine Sharma, including his son-in-law and three employees.
A Full Court yesterday ordered Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to show cause why her advice to institute conspiracy charges against two persons charged after the pink suitcase cocaine bust should not be quashed.
–fuel shortage adds to weather woes A Surinamese helicopter, which was reported missing by aviation officials on Thursday evening, was found intact and the craft was stranded on a sand bank in the Mazaruni area late last evening after it ran out of fuel.
By Zoisa Fraser The National Trust yesterday called for the preservation of the 207-year-old landmark at Victoria, East Coast Demerara that was ordered removed by the Public Works Ministry but Minister Robeson Benn insists that it poses a danger to road users and is in an illegal spot.
The City Constabulary Department of the Georgetown Municipality is currently undertaking a litter bug campaign as the department cites littering as a major contributor to the city being flooded after rainfall.
A Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara resident is questioning where the police patrols are after her storeroom was broken into sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning and ranks failed to respond until hours after she made a report.
Relatives of Indramattie Boladass have written to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) over the police force investigation into her death, which they maintain was linked to an alleged beating administered by her husband.
Fourteen projects from youths in the Latin America and the Caribbean were recently awarded US$365,000 in grants from the Development Marketplace Competition 2010.
Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo refused two men their pre-trial liberty when they appeared at the New Amsterdam Court yesterday, charged with murdering a Hampshire, Corentyne businessman and robbing his wife.
A mission from the World Bank recently began discussions with the government and other stakeholders towards adopting modern legislation that will allow customers to offer assets other than real estate as guarantees for loans.
–but show will go on, coordinator says By Iana Seales Coordinators of the Guyana Artistic Music Awards said politics and “other things” entered the discussions prior to the staging of the show tomorrow night, but despite the lack of support the event is on and will honour a number of artistes based here and overseas.
Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Jagnarine Singh is currently in Caracas signing the purchase order for the second shipment of rice and paddy under the recently revised US$21.7M deal.
Harry Kikistra, 39, of the Netherlands and his fiancé Ivana Coria, 34, of Argentina have been touring countries in the American continent since July 2008 and they recently entered Guyana through the border at Brazil.
The Ribbons Series of paintings by Guyanese artist Carl Anderson will be exhibited at the International Visions Gallery from April 29 to June 12.
A fisherman, accused of committing high seas piracy on other fishermen in the Corentyne River, was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop at the Whim Court.
A Rosignol businessman, whose vehicle reportedly struck down and killed an employee of the Berbice office of the National Communication Networks, was yesterday granted pre-trial freedom in the sum of $490,000 at the New Amsterdam Court.
TCL Guyana Incorporated (TGI) has condemned a recent Commodities Store cement ad, saying it attempted to capitalise on the earthquake in Haiti by linking Pozzolan cement to the collapse of the buildings there.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Leila Ramson and Badrudin Hassan will be honoured on Sunday for their outstanding contributions in their respective fields, as part of the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) activities to commemorate the 172nd anniversary of the arrivals of Indians in Guyana.
A Nigerian man, who admitted to being in possession of 2.1 kilogrammes of cocaine, was sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined $7.6 M by Magistrate Krishendat Persaud on Thursday at the Springlands Court.
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