Guyana News

A fire yesterday destroyed a two-storey building at De Willem, West Coast Deme-rara, which housed two families and an electronics store leaving millions in losses.

Terror does not begin to describe what a female city constable felt yesterday afternoon as a route 42 minibus sped off with her hanging onto its side for dear life.

An improperly constituted Evaluation Committee for the Ministry of Education’s Ministerial Tender Board (MTB) illegally granted 16 contracts valued at $10.678 million, the 2009 Auditor General’s report says.

Minutes after a Better Hope teen tried to avoid an argument at a community dance last evening he was slashed to the neck with a broken bottle.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has been awarded the prestigious trophy for the best Caribbean and American distiller by the International Wine and Spirit Competition body.

Twelve-year-old Vishram Persaud, who was struck down along the Friendship, East Bank Demerara Public Road two weeks ago, opened his eyes yesterday for the first time.

When a Diamond resident extended a  morning greeting to a neighbourhood woman the last thing he expected was to be attacked by her enraged, cutlass-wielding husband.

PNCR executive Winston Murray remained in an unconscious state attached to a respirator up to press time, lead physician Richard van-West Charles

DUBLIN/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The EU and IMF agreed yetserday to help bail out Ireland with loans to tackle its banking  and budget crisis in a bid to protect Europe’s financial  stability.  

Several youths now have the chance at a new start in life after completing a six-week course in welding and fabrication.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A gang of suspected  kidnappers arrested by Mexican marines had detailed plans of  security arrangements for next week’s U.N.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – The top U.S. envoy to North Korea today said revelations that Pyongyang had made rapid   advances in enriching uranium were the latest in a series of   provocations over the past 20 years, but denied it was a crisis.

On Friday, the police conducted a drug eradication operation at Warida, Upper Demerara River.

A US missionary who spent 14 years serving several churches in Guyana has passed away.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A Delta Airlines flight landed  safely at New York’s JFK Airport tonight after the pilot  complained of an engine problem, authorities said.

A 47-year-old City Constabulary member was forced to seek medical treatment this evening after she was assaulted by an off-duty police officer who was moonlighting as a bus driver.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is offering to sell her Phillipine home to San Fernando East MP Patrick Manning for TT$30 million.

Jamaica Observer) In an amazingly interesting way, the local music fraternity said farewell to two departed legendary contributors to Jamaican music over two consecutive days this weekend.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy today said that the recent spike in maternal deaths would make it the highest figure in the past six to seven years.

Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson made a strong appeal last night to the Jamaican business sector to help make available drugs and equipment to Haiti in response to the current cholera crisis in that country.