Guyana News

A councillor of the Linden municipality staged a one-day vigil at the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday in protest at the poor water quality throughout the town.

A miner was shot in the right foot early Monday morning while walking along a trail at Tiger Creek Landing, Puruni.

NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday blocked the Obama administration’s ban on deepwater  drilling, complicating its efforts to improve the safety of  offshore oil operations after the worst spill in U.S.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Peru has replaced Colombia as  the top producer of illegal coca leaf used in cocaine  production after years of U.S.-backed

Toolsie Persaud Limited and N&M Security Solutions recently renovated the Office of the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, as a sign of the good relations the university has always shared with the private sector.

AGADIR, Morocco, (Reuters) – Talks on replacing a  whaling moratorium with a controlled cull are likely to fail  this week because anti-whaling countries are giving no ground,  Norway’s delegate to the meeting said yesterday.

Medical authorities are appealing to women of Region 10 to access available services for the early detection of pre-cervical cancer and other forms of cancer, following the results of a recent two day medical outreach in Linden.

Marriott International today announced that it will open its first Marriott-branded hotel in Guyana in 2013.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is now being held in a secure facility according to the police.

The Alliance For Change’s (AFC) National Executive Committee (NEC) will recommend that Khemraj Ramjattan become its presidential candidate at the party’s National Conference in October.

A passenger who fell and struck his head on Saturday, while boarding a Caribbean Airlines plane at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, died on Sunday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

– says it was a case of mistaken identity Boat builder Fabian Gonsalves who was kidnapped almost three weeks ago, walked into the Anna Regina police station yesterday morning with his wife and reported that he had been the victim of a case of mistaken identity.

Cobra,’ the gang leader who is being hunted by the police force’s anti-crime unit, is a 17-year-old, relatives have confirmed.

Contracted garbage collectors suspended their services as of yesterday after City Hall failed to pay the sum of $75 million owing to them.

A post-mortem examination (PME) has revealed that Jamal Beete, brother of wanted man Tyrone ‘Cobra’ Rowe, died from gunshot injuries to the head.

An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted tomorrow morning on the body of minibus conductor Godfrey Hoyte who was stabbed to death just after midnight on Sunday at the Stabroek Market square.

A man who allegedly wounded another after imbibing a local drink was remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday charged with felonious wounding.

-told to keep details on down-low The other youth who was in the police pick-up when 16-year-old Kelvin Fraser was fatally shot by a policeman on June 7 said he heard no sounds of a scuffle, while another teen held during the incident said a policeman warned him to omit certain things from his statement if he wanted to be released.

The leaders of the Alliance For Change (AFC) said yesterday that they are preparing a programme to facilitate a coalition platform which will include opposition parties, members of economic, labour and civil society groups and defectors from the PPP/C administration to contest next year’s election.

For the first 172 days this year there has been approximately one murder every three days.