Guyana News

PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran today called for the decriminalizing of same sex relationships saying that the present laws are archaic and that the society should be liberal in outlook and socially progressive.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Captain Andrew Strauss hit his second century in as many matches to leave England in the driving seat and in clear sight of West Indies’ first innings score of 370 at close on the second day of the second test at Trent Bridge on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) FIFA will take legal steps to recover the ownership of the US$25.5 million Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, which the football’s world governing body claims to have funded.

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

(Jamaica Observer) The Caribbean will soon have more options for satisfying its sweet tooth, with a Guyanese company and an American creamery pairing up to open ice-cream stores across the region.

(Jamaica Observer) Police are now hunting for a man who brutally stabbed a teenager to death for laughing at him when he fell from his bicycle.

(Trinidad Express) Appeal Court Judge, Justice Wendell Kangaloo was yesterday flown to Baltimore, Maryland in the United States where his care is expected to continue at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Memorial Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) United National Congress (UNC) deputy political leader, Roodal Moonilal, has alleged that Calder Hart used taxpayers’ money to purchase a multi-million-dollar villa in Tobago, while he was executive chairman at the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT).

(Barbados Nation) This island’s top prosecutor wants the salaries and perks of top-flight company executives approved by shareholders and not just the boards of directors.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Vatican magistrates today formally charged Pope Benedict’s butler with illegal possession of secret documents and said a wider investigation would take place to see if he had any accomplices who helped him leak them.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – England talisman Tim Bresnan blew away West Indies’ main resistance with three key wickets on the second day of the second test at Trent Bridge today.

The European Union (EU) and the government yesterday inked two financial agreements totalling $7.1 billion, the major portion of which will be plugged into the ailing sugar sector.

The badly chopped 16-year-old North West District girl was working at a Kayamoo – a barrack-like accommodation for sex workers – before she met her attacker less than a year ago, residents of the Port Kaituma area said yesterday.

In his inaugural Indepe-dence address to the nation, President Donald Ramotar last night announced that the government plans to revitalize village economies countrywide.

An arsonist yesterday targeted a Norton Street home causing damage and endangering the lives of its occupants.

The police have arrested two of the persons who attacked the constable who was shot numerous times with arrows, chopped in the head and beaten at Monkey Mountain, Region Eight  On Thursday.

The most serious human rights abuses in Guyana during last year involved mistreatment of suspects and detainees by security forces, unlawful killings by police, and poor prison and jail conditions, the US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011 on Guyana has said.

The village council of Akwero in the Moruca sub-region will soon make a decision on the fate of the Toshao, who, on Thursday and while drunk, verbally and physically abused two women in the community, one of whom is a regional official.

Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) is holding discussions with the Upper Berbice loggers association operating in the Region Ten area to find a mutually agreeable solution to the problem of illegal offloading of logs and logger’s trucks crossing at the company’s Kwakwani waterfront facility, the company said in a release.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will open a temporary Registration Sub-Office at Better Hope Community Centre (Lower Flat),  East Coast Demerara,  from  Monday.