Cheryl Springer

Another teacher has been arrested, this time in West Demerara, after he allegedly had sexual relations with a male pupil.

An East Bank Essequibo man has been accused of sexually molesting two minor children.

In a dramatic scene this morning, ranks from the New Amsterdam and Fort Wellington police stations visited a West Coast Berbice secondary school and arrested a male teacher accused of sexually molesting female students.

Three Guyanese are feared dead after a day of fun turned tragic on Sunday afternoon at the popular Mayaro beach in South Trinidad, according to the Trinidad Express.

Some time after 9 am today a Meadow Bank man was stabbed to the neck by a co-worker and died shortly after at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

(Trinidad Guardian) Government yesterday tabled legislation to remove obstacles to the death penalty and to allow for the creation of three categories of murder in T&T.

Government has rescheduled the official launch of the International Year for People of African Descent (IYPAD) observances in the wake of concerns raised by several major African groups about the approved agenda, but the issues remain unresolved.

Guyana has formally recognized Palestine as a free, independent, and sovereign state, based on its 1967 borders, a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has commenced its first crop for 2011 to cash-in on early revenue, but sugar workers at the Uitvlugt Estate called a strike today demanding a customary one-week sickness benefit.

Guyanese Abdel Nur, who last year pleaded guilty to aiding a plot to blow up New York’s John F.

Managing Director of Bounty Farm Limited Patrick De Groot has been appointed the new Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).

Search efforts are ongoing in the Essequibo River for a 22-year-old woman who went missing following a boat mishap in the river yesterday.

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A congresswoman from Arizona was shot and seriously wounded and six other people were killed by a man who opened fire at a meeting the politician was holding in Tucson today, officials said.

(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.

A Linden man was robbed and shot in his store this afternoon by a lone gunman.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Tragedy struck at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Jamaica this morning, when a woman threw a newborn baby off the multi-storey building.

The police today said they are investigating a murder of a labourer last night in the Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.

Police today said they shot and killed a man on Christmas afternoon in the Puruni Backdam after he fired upon them.

An Essequibo woman is in custody for the Christmas Day murder of her 60-year-old husband, according to a police report.

An argument between two men on Christmas Day at Konawaruk resulted in one being chopped to death, the police in a release said.