Guyana News

A 17-year-old  mother, who gave birth to twins at the Georgetown Public Hospital died on Wednesday at the institution owing to high blood pressure according to her relatives.

A woman was discovered murdered in her D’Urban Street home yesterday morning and it is believed that she was stabbed to death during an argument with her reputed husband.

A man was attacked and robbed on Robb Street yesterday afternoon and had to be taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment.

Police on the East Coast are searching for two men who escaped with $1 million belonging to a Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice businessman just after 1.30 pm on Thursday.

More than two years after policeman Chaavekanand Kishore died his relatives remain convinced that his death was no suicide and are calling on investigators to do more to answer  many lingering questions.

Almost four years ago 53-year-old Marion Low-Williams left her Plaisance East Coast home promising her children that she was travelling to Suriname or Cayenne to work so as to improve their lives.

Psychologist Dr Faith Harding has expressed grave concern over the number of suicides and attempted suicides among young people, and she has attributed the problem partly to them living life too quickly and becoming bored by the time they are in their late teens.

The Project Concept Note (PCN) for the rehabilitation of the Cunha Canal is currently being reviewed by the Steering Committee of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF).

A Lethem taxi driver is angry over moves by a prominent businessman in the border community to take over several acres of sand-bearing land, which he has occupied for close to a decade.

The residents and business owners at Stelling Road Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, are calling on the authorities to have the sea defences upgraded or repaired so as to prevent flooding whenever the tide is high.

Former central executive member of the PNCR Dr Faith Harding has been moving ahead with her Quick Impact Programme (QIP) and one of her major programmes is already under way with the planting of many acres of sorrel at Long Creek which is expected to be exported when reaped.

GINA today issued a release saying that the Bartica Neighbourhood Democratic council had been dissolved.

A fire has erupted at G Bacchus Enterprises formally MFK trading on Hadfield Street.

Since Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira sent out emails to the leaders of the opposition parties over the course of the last two weeks inviting them to meet, there has been little movement since scheduling a time that suits everyone is proving more difficult than expected.

A 42-year-old pork knocker was this afternoon shot and killed by police ranks who were called to his  Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo home, which he was threatening to burn

(WICB) Nottingham, England – Darren Sammy said it was a good feeling to have completed his maiden Test hundred for West Indies in the second Test against the World No.1 England today.

(Jamaica Observer) Embattled dancehall Deejay Busy Signal has denied any involvement in drug smuggling.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Colombian and Mexican Governments are both assisting Trinidad and Tobago in the fight against crime.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – The African, Caribbean and Pacific countries forming the ACP have proclaimed their solidarity with Suriname on the issue of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA).

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Barely a month after the inaugural flight, the SLM Guyana-Miami line seems to be very lucrative.