Guyana News

An Air Services Ltd aircraft suffered wing damage after swerving to avoid hitting someone as it was about to land at the Kwakwani Airstrip, Region 10.

A Guyana-born woman is now facing life in prison after a hospital visit led to the discovery of almost 50 packets of cocaine inside her stomach.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday announced a plan to make an appeal to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), following his administration’s inability to win the necessary opposition support to pass amendments to the anti-money laundering laws recommended by the body.

President Donald Ramotar says the decision to withhold assent from the local government bill intended to strip ministerial control over local authorities was taken because he felt the change was unconstitutional.

A container shipment that originated from Guyana was on Thursday intercepted with 57.5 kilogrammes (126 pounds) of cocaine at Kingston Free Zone, in Jamaica, and local sleuths have since launched an investigation.

Balkissoon ‘Boi’ Daichan, 42, a carpenter of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice, was found hanging in a cell at the Blairmont Police Station on Thursday evening, hours after he was arrested for threatening his wife.

Police ranks came under fire during a drug eradication operation at 15 Miles, Ituni Backdam on Thursday afternoon.

Economist and bookshop owner Bholan Boodhoo, 65, died early yesterday morning after he was struck down by a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) minibus along the JB Singh Road.

Security guard Roy Harilall died of injuries he sustained in an accident along the Prospect Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara on Thursday night.

PPP General Secretary and Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, who was hospitalised on Thursday night at the Woodlands Hospital, is currently in stable condition and being kept in a private room.

The executive is not in favour of making the salaries of all members of the judiciary tax-free, Attorney General Anil Nandlall says.

GT&T has handed over a cheque for $1 million to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for the enhancement of the environment in front of the hospital’s main entrances on New Market Street.

Beeswax lip gloss and other byproducts of the apiculture industry were on display yesterday outside the New Guyana Marketing Corporation as part of the Guyana Apiculture Society’s (GAS) ‘Honey Day’, which sought to raise the profile of the fledging industry.

Courts Guyana Inc launched its big prize promotion for 2013, ‘Become a millionaire at Courts’, yesterday in grand style.

As trade ministers gathered for a meeting on the strategic direction of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said that the regional body cannot afford to do anything less than  reinvent itself and with maximum haste.

The deal under which the Chinese forestry company Bai Shan Lin is building a car-park for the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) reeks of impropriety and should be terminated, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA).

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn has identified some shortcomings in some aspects of the response during the simulated plane crash emergency exercise staged by the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Wednesday.

A week after allegedly illegally imported meat was confiscated from her store, Jap’s Halaal Meat Market proprietor Marcelle Rahaman is denying that she sold tainted meat and says moves against her business seem “political” in nature.

(de Ware Tijd) CORRIVERTON-GUYANA – Local entrepreneurs have made good use of the opportunities neighbouring Guyana offers as a result of the economic growth.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A son of Suriname’s president invited people he thought were from the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah to set up a base in his country to attack Americans in exchange for millions of U.S.