Guyana News

A trainee teacher was on Thursday badly beaten by a male Campbellville Secondary School student whom she had scolded during a class session.

A 16-year-old student of a private school on the Corentyne ingested a poisonous substance in an attempt to end her life after her guardians abused her in the public around 2:45 pm on Wednesday.

Moray House Trust is inviting the public to a presentation titled ‘Perspectives on Guyana’s Hinterland – Developmental Challenges and Opportunities’ on the occasion of World Environment Day.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted a 19-year-old man $20,000 bail when he appeared in court on Friday to answer to the charge that he assaulted the mother of his child and threatened another woman.

The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department is recalling Apo-Dorzo-Timop ophthalmic solution manufactured by Apotex Inc, Canada.

A 33-year-old farmer on an indictable charge of passport forgery was on Tuesday placed on $65,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Thirty-one-year-old Carl Cato was on Wednesday granted $15,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a simple larceny charge.

Dwight Da Silva, the man accused of killing Kaneville businessman Barbot Paul, was today found not guilty.

ROME, Italy,  CMC – Jamaican Usain Bolt stormed to a world-leading 9.76 seconds to win the 100 metres at the Rome Diamond League here today.

(WICB) Leicester, England – Assad Fudadin said his first trip overseas with the West Indies team has been an eye-opening experience.

Chartered accountant and attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram and former Guyana Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran are the Alliance For Change (AFC) nominees for the long-delayed Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A pair of women’s underwear that fell out of a Brazilian legislator’s briefcase on the floor of Congress two weeks ago has been incinerated after no one stepped forward to claim them, O Globo newspaper reported today.

(Jamaica Observer) Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke yesterday accused the former Jamaica Labour Party Government (JLP) of selling the country short in the divesting of three of the five state-owned sugar estates to Chinese company Complant International two years ago, with arrangements for tax waivers lasting up to 20 years, among other concessions.

(WICB) Port of Spain, Trinidad – Sunil Narine returned home to Trinidad from India earlier this week and before he got a chance to unpack his bags, he was told to pack them again.

(Jamaica Gleaner)   A strident Karl Samuda yesterday declared that Jamaica should make it clear to Trinidad and Tobago that it refuses to be a receptacle for its goods.

(Barbados Nation) Minister of Agriculture Dr David Estwick has harshly criticized Government for failing to invest more heavily to transform and reposition the sector.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin is very angry and disappointed that the delegation of the European Union (EU) that held a political dialogue with the government yesterday, used the occasion instead to lecture Suriname on the amnesty issue.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has set up a new anti-corruption team to monitor domestic one-day matches, the ECB said today.

(Trinidad Express) Persons who are suspected criminals should be tagged with the electronic monitoring bracelet so police can catch them in the act, says temporary Government Senator Jamal Mohammed.

(Trinidad Express) In the face of statements from Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard that he has not been cleared of bribery allegations, Government Minister Jack Warner yesterday brushed off the issue, saying he had passed that stage.