Guyana News

A twenty-two-year-old man was yesterday remanded after police alleged that he threw a gun out of the car he was in at a traffic stop.

The cause of the Caribbean Airlines Flight Number 523 crash-landing on June 30, 2011 has been found to be pilot error.

President Donald Ramotar today urged European Union (EU) officials to undertake a reappraisal of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to determine if tangible benefits have accrued to the CARIFORUM signatory nations since it took effect five years ago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The six Jamaican men allegedly held in the eastern Caribbean in a multi-million dollar drug bust have been remanded.

European Union Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs today said that the EU remains committed to strong ties with the Caribbean but he stressed the region has to do better on project implementation and he also pointed to the need for the highest standards of accountability and transparency.

Three New York-based members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) have switched their support to main opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Economist Dr Tarron Khemraj, who along with businessman Rab Mukraj and Political Science Professor Asquith Rose, has left the AFC’s New York chapter, said that the party has been suffering from “self-inflicted wounds” for a long time.

The result of the post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the remains of Corentyne businessman, 79-year-old Abdul Majid proved that he died from strangulation.

More than a year after a man was hacked to death and a teen girl mutilated, police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for the North West District miner believed to be responsible.

Government says that an agreement with Trinidad and Tobago’s ENMAN Group to develop a hydropower plant at the Turtruba Rapids, upstream of Bartica on the Mazaruni River, expired over three years ago, despite the company’s recent announcement of plans to move ahead.

Even as the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) prepares to integrate its Good Hope Sub Station into the current Demerara Interconnected System, its service in Berbice has been severely affected by an accident.

Guyana may once again be found non-compliant if it appears before a Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) review in November without any progress on the reform of the anti-money laundering law, Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall says.

Guyana will on Friday see the introduction of three new fast food franchises compliments of businessman Alfro Alphonso’s expansion of business to Georgetown with a US$3 million investment creating more than 80 jobs.

Rice production is poised to exceed this year’s 450,000 tonnes target, according to Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who says that the current second crop has shown that the paddy bug has had very little impact.

Camex Restaurants Incorpo-rated, the franchise holder for Church’s Chicken, Mario’s Pizza and Quiznos yesterday launched the newest addition to its chain of restaurants, Juici Patties at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara.

AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that the parliamentary opposition would re-table the Firearms (Amendment) Bill, which they voted down in March, with a view to passing it in the National Assembly.

Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony has said that the world must understand that the slave trade and the atrocities committed during the 400 years of slavery are indeed crimes against humanity.

A man was yesterday refused bail after he allegedly used personal violence to rob another and then assaulted the man’s wife when she went to his rescue.

At a motivational workshop for teachers, held on Monday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), thousands of teachers and education officials were treated to an animated presentation by leading American educator and motivational speaker Ron Clark on his unique contemporary education concepts, principles and methodologies.

A young woman was yesterday fined and ordered to do two months’ community service after she confessed that she “smokes pot”.

Police yesterday received approval to further detain nine of the 17 suspects arrested in connection with recent armed robberies in the West Demerara and Wakenaam Island areas until Saturday, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.