Guyana News

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford is not competent to  prepare for his criminal trial because he suffers from depression  and is addicted to a powerful anti-anxiety drug that has left him  mentally foggy, psychiatrists told a U.S.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa and India drew the  third and final test at Newlands on Thursday to also share the  spoils 1-1 in an enthralling series between the world’s  top-ranked test teams.

Over fifty vendors this morning took to the streets protesting the dismantling of their stalls around the Stabroek Market area following the explosion outside the market yesterday morning which left one man dead and 19 injured.

(De Ware Tijd)  – Suriname and Guyana remain the main suppliers of rice to Jamaica and the other CARICOM member states.

(De Ware Tijd)  – The small-scale gold sector has an estimated turnover of US$ 1 billion a year.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England stood on the brink of a   first Ashes series triumph in Australia for 24 years after   dominating the fourth day of the fifth test with both bat and   ball today.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board has  ruled out using the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and  also rejected an offer to travel to Australia and watch its  Ashes application.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday said that investigators are probing the theory that the man killed in yesterday’s Stabroek Market grenade explosion was a courier of illegal arms and other substances.

Fragments of a grenade were discovered at the scene of an explosion at the Stabroek Market Square yesterday, which killed one man and injured 18 other persons, according to the police.

Delroy James, one of the suspects in the New Year’s morning gas station robbery that left Seon Craig dead, was yesterday charged with murder.

The Hydrometeorological Service last evening forecast flash flooding for coastal, near inland areas and some areas in regions Seven and Ten and increased rainfall is expected for the first months of this year.

Two gunmen held up a woman at the Tuschen Nursery School yesterday and robbed her of a gold band.

Stallholders operating in the vicinity of yesterday’s explosion outside the Stabroek Market were ordered to dismantle their stalls and did so under the supervision of City Constabulary officers who later removed the wood and other material in a vehicle.

A driver attached to Stabroek News died yesterday morning after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving along the Diamond Public Road on the East Bank Demerara (EBD).

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 9.15 on Tuesday night at Canje, Berbice, which resulted in the death of Julian Mohabir, 23 years of Sheet Anchor, East Canje.

The Government Informa-tion Agency (GINA) yesterday said that efforts have once again been made by unknown individuals to hack its website.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – State lawmakers launched a  drive today to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born 

A Guyanese man beat his estranged Guyanese wife in Bom Fin, Brazil, early Tuesday, resulting in her being hospitalised.

Farmers in the Alness/ Liverpool area in East Berbice can expect some relief from flooding with the construction of a new sluice valued some $46M in their community.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s government is still   trying to thrash out the details of a two-year moratorium on   forest clearing under a $1 billion climate deal with Norway,   leading it to miss a planned January 1 start and continued   uncertainty for plantation firms.