Guyana News

Hire-car drivers operating at the Tuschen Housing Scheme say that private cars are unfairly competing with them and their complaints to the police have fallen on deaf ears.

Traffic along the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) slowed to a crawl yesterday afternoon after sections of the anchorage system at the structure malfunctioned.

The Trinidadian conglomerate, ANSA McAL, is inviting companies and consultants to indicate their interest in providing services as the company moves ahead with its proposed ethanol/sugar project here.

The Government is yet to decide whether an appeal will be filed against last Wednesday’s decision by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang throwing out its challenge of the numerical make-up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection.

Relatives of an 18-year-old mother of two, who died more than four months ago as a result of injuries she sustained during a botched abortion, are calling on higher authorities to intervene in the investigation of the police and the  Medical Council of Guyana since there has been no progress by either.

Police say that at about 0045h yesterday, mechanic Mark Dookhie, 28 years of Aishalton, South Rupununi, was allegedly

A Partnership for National Unity on Saturday said that Sandra V.

CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque has challenged the Community’s foreign ministers to engage in strategic discussions in order to forge clear policy reactions to the formative changes in this hemisphere.

Kross Kolor Records is launching its new brand ‘Showcase Guyana’ aimed at promoting local music, arts and craft, fashion and food across the Caribbean.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) said 38 persons participated in a National Quranic Competition it held recently at the Meten-Meer-Zorg west masjid.

The Guyana Women’s Miners Organisation will hold a members’ meeting tomorrow at the Sea Breeze Hotel, Pere Street, Kitty.

The Guyana Arts and Craft Producers Association has announced that First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar has agreed to serve as its patron.

(Reuters) – The eighth-seeded Philadelphia 76ers moved within a game of eliminating the injury-depleted Chicago Bulls as they scored their third consecutive victory over the East’s top seeds, winning 89-82 on Sunday.

PPP Executive Ralph Ramkarran in a letter today restated that the Central Committee of the PPP had taken a position against the cut-off of state advertisements to Stabroek News in 2006.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France’s presidential election yesterday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe that could start a pushback against German-led austerity.

The Trinidadian conglomerate, ANSA McAL, is inviting companies and consultants to indicate their interest in providing services as the company moves ahead with its proposed ethanol/sugar project here.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0415h today on the Friendship Public Road, EBD, and which resulted in the death of Richard Smith, 31 years of Barr Street, Kitty.

(Jamaica Observer) Despite two false-starts that he said might have somewhat slowed his star, double world record-holder Usain Bolt made a successful, if somewhat easy start to his competitive season, cruising to a world-leading 9.82 seconds clocking to win the 100 metres at yesterday’s ninth JN Jamaica International Invitational at the National Stadium.

(Jamaica Observer) The mother and stepfather of a 12-year-old girl who is now pregnant, as well as the girl’s 20-year-old boyfriend have been charged with various breaches of the Sexual Offences Act and Child Care and Protection Act, the police reported yesterday.

Police say that at about 0045h today, mechanic Mark Dookhie, 28 years of Aishalton, South Rupununi, was allegedly shot to his back with an arrow by a man with whom he earlier had an argument while they were imbibing.