Guyana News

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa,  CMC – Bowling coach Roddy Estwick believes West Indies can build on last week’s Test win over Pakistan and use it to create a new culture in the embattled Caribbean side.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a 32-year-old money-changer which occurred about 16:15h today inside of Popeye’s, in Water Street, Georgetown, by an identifiable male, who was armed with a handgun.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – FBI Director James Comey told Congress today a recent review of newly discovered emails did not change the agency’s conclusion that no charges were warranted in the case of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

(Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a five-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC Tracking Poll released early on Sunday.

The 18-month-old coalition-led government and the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) do not appear to have any appetite for constitutional reform, with both sides historically wary of giving up presidential powers, Professor Harold Lutchman and Ralph Ramkarran have said.

Photos by Joanna Dhanraj   The bus stopped and let off its passengers on the ubiquitous red road that runs through the North West District.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is once again accusing House Speaker Dr Barton Scotland of partisanship, which it says prompted a walkout by its parliamentarians during a debate in the wee hours of yesterday morning.

Over 60 women of Rockstone Village are anticipating much needed employment that is expected to accompany the completion of a community processing plant that will use every part of the cassava to manufacture at least 6 different products, Toshao of the village Rudolph Simon has said.

Two bandits on a motorcycle created havoc on the East Coast Demerara between Friday afternoon and yesterday morning, storming three businesses at gunpoint.

President David Granger is of the opinion that his administration’s crime-fighting strategy is working.

Former Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon believes that the government’s decision to hold its weekly Cabinet meetings at the Guyana Defence Force’s Camp Ayanganna base shows a politicising of the military.

A recent fundraising trip to New York by a University of Guyana (UG) delegation secured $2,019,950 in contributions against $4,366,024 in expenditure on airfare and accommodation.

The Vector Control Unit (VCU) of the Ministry of Public Health is working towards the establishment of an Entomology Unit as a means of enhancing its monitoring and management of mosquito borne-diseases.

A total of six babies, including a stillbirth case, have been diagnosed with microcephaly since the first local case of Zika was detected earlier this year.

By Zoisa Fraser in Ohio*   Women are just as capable as men to be president, Beyoncé told those packed into the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio on Friday night for a free concert organised by her husband, music mogul and rapper Jay Z in support of US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

After a vehement refusal of the government’s wages and salaries offer and a request for negotiations to be taken to conciliation, no date has been set and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is silent.

Government on Thursday announced plans for the overhaul of the civil aviation sector, including the approval for the establishment of a review panel to resolve the long-running disagreements between domestic carriers at the Eugene F Correia International Airport.

President David Granger has said that current youth training programmes will be enlarged as government moves to increase the pool of young entrepreneurs.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Venezuela is going through a “very ugly” situation and there could be bloodshed ahead if talks between the government and opposition fail, a papal envoy told an Argentine newspaper after his visit to Venezuela this week.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies Test captain Jason Holder says he is determined to avoid controversial off-the-field issues and focus on his main job of leading the Caribbean side.