Guyana News

A Hampshire, Corentyne resident succumbed to gunshot injuries he sustained when four masked bandits stormed his house around 7:30 pm on Saturday and stole almost $1M in cash and jewellery.

Police in ‘B’ Division have arrested a suspected drug dealer and seized two speedboats, 12 Yamaha outboard engines and other articles as they continued their drug eradication exercises in the Berbice River on Saturday.

`When I get out of the hospital I am going to file for a divorce…I am getting this man out of my life’ After an evening out to escape the stress of her life a West Ruimveldt woman was beaten in the head by her husband.

Thirty-five-year-old Orlando Garraway, of Alexander Street, Lacytown, was placed on $45,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday accused of snatching a woman’s gold band.

Miners in Port Kaituma on Friday expressed concern over the “red tape” involved in new rules which requires them to give notice of their intention to mine but Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn says their operations will not be stopped “no matter how long it takes”.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA)  is  working to correct irregularities that currently exist in any private warehouse facility  while also moving  to ensure that all private warehouses operate within  the Customs Act/Customs Regulations and Standard Operating Procedures.

Preparatory work on the site identified for the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Power project is now set to begin, President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday.

Pensioners are getting a “raw deal” under National Insurance Scheme (NIS) rules which see benefits ceasing when the person attains 60 years, Senior Counsel, Ralph Ramkarran says.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – “Retou ala Vi. Ayiti  Pap Peri” (Back to life, Haiti will not die) reads the banner  in Creole stretched up beside a crowded camp of earthquake  survivors in the heart of the wrecked capital Port-au-Prince.

A nine-year-old Grade Four student of the Corriverton Primary School broke both of his hands and suffered injuries to his head when he fell around 11 am last Friday while trying to retrieve his kite.

A staff/volunteer of the Guyana Red Cross Society is in Haiti working along with the 20 emergency response units (ERUs) with different  specializations that have been deployed so far as part of the massive response from the international community  in the wake  of the  devastating 7.0 magnitude  earthquake on January 12.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Barack Obama made his first trip  to Afghanistan as U.S.

By Alva Solomon Instilling moral values into the minds of children can these days be a difficult task and in a rapidly developing technological world the ills of society can be just a click away.

ARKHANGELSK, Russia, (Reuters) – Thousands of angry  people demonstrated in a northwestern Russian city yesterday  against the high cost of living and demanded that the government  of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin quits.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Dressed in white,  shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to “Olorum  Papa” (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of  Haiti’s voodoo religion held a public ceremony yesterday to  honour those killed in the Jan.

Residents found a packet filled with bullets on Freeman Street, East La Penitence yesterday.

BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva held talks  with protest leaders yesterday in an effort to defuse growing  tension and avert possible confrontation after protesters  intensified their drive to topple the government.

– cops hunting him A 32-year-old woman of Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice was hacked to death and her mother badly chopped when her husband attacked them with a cutlass around 1.30 am yesterday.

The furore, which had erupted in opposition camps close to two years ago when the Court of Appeal Amendment Bill was introduced, has intensified as a result of its recent passage in Parliament, but disquiet about the legislation also runs in the legal fraternity.