Guyana News

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A would-be suicide jumper in New York was alive on Monday after leaping from a ninth-floor window but landing in a giant heap of garbage uncollected since the city’s massive snowstorm a week ago.

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

Former PNC Minister Carl Greenidge today accepted the nomination to be considered for the party’s presidential candidacy.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – A grimly determined Gautam  Gambhir and a serene Sachin Tendulkar took India to 142 for two  at stumps on the second day of the deciding third test against  South Africa today.

On the heels of an arson attack on the Enterprise school early yesterday morning, arsonists last evening failed in their attempts to set fire to the Annandale Secondary School also on the ECD.

Following a break and enter, the Guyana Post Office Corporation’s Mahaica location was unable to make pension payments or conduct normal operations today, a statement from the corporation said.

New York police have confirmed that a Jamaican dancehall artiste who tried to break up a fight outside a Queens banquet hall was the city’s first 2011 murder victim, the Caribbean Media Corporation says.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Debutant Usman Khawaja briefly   lit up a gloomy first day of the fifth Ashes test today   but Australia’s batting frailties and rain returned later in   the day to leave the hosts wobbling on 134-4 at the close of   play.

The Antiguan police have reported that a 60-year-old Guyanese man died in a crash in Antigua early on New Year’s morning.

(De Ware Tijd) — In order to deal with the finance deficit of the State, the government will have to take unpopular measures.

(De Ware Tijd) — In his New Year’s Address, President Desi Bouterse said that in the course of this year, the government will close a gold deal with Surgold, the joint venture between Suralco/Alcoa and Newmont.

Quick action by two security guards at the Enterprise Primary School on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) yesterday morning saved the building from being burnt by arsonists.

Goedverwagting resident Paul Samaroo, who was shot by bandits on December 16, succumbed to his injuries this morning while undergoing treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A 74-year-old miner was last evening being treated for severe burns to his upper torso and face following a brazen attack by bandits in the Mahdia area in Region 8 on Friday.

The new year began tragically for a Lusignan, East Coast Demerara (ECD) family following the death of a 30-year-old mason who was struck down while cycling along the roadway close to his home yesterday.

The future of the East Bank Demerara highway at Craig, where the Demerara River is undercutting sections of the road, will be determined when a feasibility study for the proposed four-lane highway is completed.

The large amount of garbage and waste dumped by residents into the canals led to the wrecking of the drainage filter at the Annandale Pump Station, a Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) spokesman says.

The police have held one person in relation to the New Year’s

The absence of Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond forced the adjournment of the matter involving missing mother of one, Babita Sarjou and her former husband, Anand Narine last week.

On Christmas Eve morning investigators discovered the car of murdered taxi driver Leyton Garraway on Mandela Avenue just outside the National Cultural Centre.