Staff Editor

Members of the Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM), the youth arm of the PNCR, this evening held a vigil outside of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) for party member Winston Murray, who remains on a life support machine at the hospital.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. regulators warned makers  of alcoholic energy drinks often called “blackout in a can”  that their products are unsafe and violate federal laws,  following a public outcry and several state bans.

A Sand Creek woman died some time yesterday afternoon after she was reportedly hit to the head with a hammer.

Daniel Muller, the bystander who was injured on Tuesday by fleeing bandits after they had fatally shot businessman Dennis Ramah in Chateau Margot, says he cannot remember anything from the incident.

(Go-Jamaica) Assistant Commissioner of Police Leslie Green is to head an investigation into “serious” allegations made by a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) activist against Energy Minister James Robertson.

The Guyana’s People Partnership headed up by businessman Peter Ramsaroop is to unveil a $750,000 entrepreneurship award tomorrow.

Two cruise lines have suspended calls at St Kitts after 17 tourists were robbed at gunpoint on Sunday, the UK Daily Telegraph reported today.

(BBC) Haitian President Rene Preval has appealed for calm amid fears that riots aimed at UN peacekeepers over a cholera epidemic could spread to the capital.

A security guard identified as Leroy Benjamin was struck and killed at Conversation Tree last night under circumstances still unknown.

GALLE,  (Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene completed his  37th test fifty before rain washed out play on the third  afternoon of the first test to leave Sri Lanka on 165 for three  today in reply to West Indies’s 580 for nine declared.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated today inked a contract with the Wartsila Company for 15.68 more megawatts to the existing 20.7 megawatt plant at Kingston, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The Guyana Revenue Authority has announced a simplified barrels clearance process where personal effects will no longer be examined and transactions should take no more than 10 minutes.

One of the three miners injured in Monday’s tree mishap at an upper Barama River location succumbed while being air-dashed to Georgetown this morning.

(Reuters) – Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, Congress’s former chief tax writer, was convicted by a congressional panel today of ethics violations, many dealing with personal finances.

Mervin Williams, the prisoner who was shot in his attempt to escape from lawful custody outside the Camp Street Prisons on November 11, was today sentenced to two years imprisonment by Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Three police officers accused of taking 301 grams of cannabis from a man and then demanding the sum of $75,000 so that he could avoid prosecution were today remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) says that Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has apologised to the region for  comments she has made in the past few weeks on assistance to storm-stricken countries in the region.

The non-governmental organization Help and Shelter says it will strenuously and actively oppose any attempt to retain convicted sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud as a medical doctor in Guyana.

Alliance For Change Leader and MP Raphael Trotman is to move a motion at Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly for the introduction of the long-awaited Freedom of Information Bill.

Gun-toting bandits this morning raided a welding shop and the L and B  shopping centre at 18, Second Street, Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara and killed the owner, Dennis Ramah.