Cheryl Springer

A 36-year-old US-based Guyanese was on Sunday arrested by police in St Maarten after one of the two teenagers he was joy riding with on a jet ski fell off and died, the St Maarten News Network (SMN) has reported.

Construction of the largest ever gold mine in Guyana with total investment pegged at $165 billion (US$826 million) over the life of the project is set to begin in the latter part of this year.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Interpol said today it had foiled a militant plot to carry out an attack during the cricket World Cup now being played across South Asia.

The five men accused of the 2008 murder of 12 persons in the Bartica massacre were today committed to stand trial at the High Court after a prima facie case was made out against them.

Police in Suriname on Tuesday said that they had seized some 115 kilogrammes of cocaine believed to have been transported from Guyana, the Star Nieuws has reported.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said yesterday he quit all his official positions when he fell ill in 2006, including head of the ruling Communist Party.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s forces attacked two west Libyan towns, killing dozens while rebels were pinned down in the east and NATO tried to resolve a heated row over who should lead the Western air campaign.

Spring tide has washed away the bypass that was constructed at a bridge that is being repaired at Friendship, East Bank Demerara resulting in the public road being flooded and reducing traffic to a snail’s space.

Youths cleaning a weed infested trench alongside Eccles Industrial site road this morning stumbled upon the decomposing body of a Bagostown resident.

A two-year boy died in an early morning fire today in the Vryheid’s Lust Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Attacks on Libya are likely to slow in the coming days, a US general said yesterday, as Western powers consolidate a no-fly zone that some say is unlikely to bring an early end to the country’s civil war.

A Trans Guyana Airways security guard was early this morning shot to death by one of two men who torched a safe in the airline’s building at Ogle, East Coast Demerara and escaped with four firearms.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese military helicopters and fire trucks poured water on an overheating nuclear facility today and the plant operator said electricity to part of the crippled complex could be restored in a desperate bid to avert catastrophe.

At least 15 persons were injured today following a late morning two vehicle smash up at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara.

Police in Berbice have launched an investigation into allegations that at least one rank demanded money from a man who was held with US$50,000 at a road block last month.

The body of an East Bank Demerara contractor was this morning found in Le Repentir Cemetery with two gunshot wounds to the back.

Police today said that they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Richard Titus, 30 years of Second Street, Alberttown, Georgetown who was reportedly killed in the North West District (NWD) yesterday.

Fire officials this afternoon managed to extinguish a fire that broke out in the ceiling of one of the cells in the Georgetown Prison before any major

The battered body of a 55-year-old logger was this morning found a short distance from a Timehri ‘wedding house’, which he had visited last night.

An early afternoon fire today completely gutted four buildings at Grove, East Bank Demerara and scorched a fifth, leaving 29 people homeless and millions of dollars in damage.