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By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – Middlesex have signed Australian Adam Gilchrist for next year’s Twenty20 campaign and hope to recruit Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar as well, …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – John Mayer is on track to debut at No. 1 on the US pop album chart next week, leading a seasonal …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
A man was stabbed about his body and on both palms yesterday after he was accused of trying to steal a motor cycle.
According to a …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Rain washed out the first one-day international between South Africa and England without a ball being bowled yesterday.
The second match is scheduled …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
Dear Editor,
After reading about the brazen attacks on two police stations and the supreme court just before the alleged torture of a child by the …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
New army recruits demonstrate unarmed combat before their graduation on Thursday. According to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), 80 newly trained soldiers successfully completed the …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The routine reopening of India’s parliament has suddenly emerged as an awkward test for the Congress-led government’s ability to push reforms …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nine million added to poverty list
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says an additional nine million people have sunk into …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
A few weeks ago, addressing the Queen’s College anniversary celebrations (in a blackout), Dr Roopnaraine asked his audience (and by extension all Guyanese) to “embrace …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 91 Comments
The Office of the President (OP) yesterday described the parliamentary opposition’s dossier of human rights abuses as an attempt at politicking.
In its first formal response …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 147 Comments
By Shabna Ullah
A policeman suffered gunshot injuries to his face while responding to a robbery at Hampshire, Corentyne around 7.30 pm on Wednesday and is …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 43 Comments
-passerby wounded
A suspected bandit was last evening fatally shot after he and another man reportedly attempted to rob a grocery in the East Ruimveldt Market. …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 19 Comments
The Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) of the Human Services Ministry yesterday launched its 24-hour “prevent child abuse hotline” to coincide with the day …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 129 Comments
–foreign minister orders probe
By Oluatoyin Alleyne
Officials at the Guyana Embassy in Washington DC made a “huge mistake” when they issued travel documents for a man …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 5 Comments
The National Assembly yesterday passed a bill that mandates the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to issue contribution records to workers annually.
The National Insurance and Social …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 23 Comments
A US$5 million ($1B) loan from the Inter-American Development Bank will be utilized to consolidate the Bank of Guyana’s supervision capacity, boost access to financial …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 7 Comments
Men armed with cutlasses attacked students at the Lodge Community High School on Wednesday and fear escalated yesterday when several suspicious men were spotted in …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 19 Comments
The Guyana Police Force has completed its investigations into the torture meted out to a 15-year-old boy at the Leonora Police Station, and has given …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 15 Comments
Two lower form students of the Linden Foundation Secondary School at Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie were attacked and beaten by members of a gang which has …
