Guyana News

A Guyanese mother of four has been locked away in a women’s prison in Ecuador for almost a year without a trial, after she was allegedly caught with drugs as she was about to leave the country.

A businessman was last Friday shot while at his brother’s Cove and John, East Coast Demerara house and police are investigating the circumstances.

Chairman of the Tuschen Community Policing Group (CPG) Shaheed Ahmad said efforts are being made to soil his good record of effectively fighting crime in the East Bank Essequibo community, in an effort to remove him from the post.

Two families fear the worst after a mud slide at Green Valley, in Linden, caused by heavy rainfall last Thursday.

The family of Dennis Cort, who is said to have Alzheimer’s, is still searching for him since he disappeared after church on Sunday, April 29.

The condition of policewoman Rockell Scipio, who was hit by a speeding car last Wednesday

The annual Mother and Daughter Pageant is in its 21st year and will be held at the National Cultural Centre on Saturday May 12, from 8 pm under the theme ‘Love Out of This World’.

This year the Dharm Shala Home of Benevolence For All Races is celebrating its 91st year of existence.

Bengali actress-writer-director Aparna Sen’s film 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) is this month’s Classic Tuesdays offering at the National Gallery, Castellani House.

President of the Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC) Archbishop Patrick Pinder has urged Catholics to challenge laws that discriminate against persons, including on the basis of sexual orientation.

A Partnership for National Unity today said that Sandra V. Jones will be sworn in, on Monday 7th May 2012, as the new GECOM Opposition Commissioner to replace the late Robert Williams.

(Jamaica Observer) Telecommunications company DIGICEL said staff at its New Kingston office was upset by the conduct of officials of the Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) and police personnel which resulted in them being inconvenienced.

Caricom foreign ministers who convened in Suriname on May 3-4 have described Venezuela’s objection to Guyana’s application for an extended continental shelf as regrettable.

The police are on the hunt for the driver who struck down and killed a La Grange, West Bank Demerara, fish vendor early this morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The first day of the tour match between West Indies and Sussex Sharks at the Probiz County Ground in England was abandoned because of rain.

The Associated Press reported today that a medical emergency flight crashed near St.

The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 1320h yesterday at Cove and John, ECD, where businessman Neil Beer, 51 years, was shot to his back while at the home of his brother who is a licensed firearm holder.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s transport minister resigned on Friday following reports of corruption in his ministry, making him the second member of President Laura Chinchilla’s Cabinet to fall victim to a scandal in barely a month.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States must do more to heal the wounds of indigenous peoples caused by more than a century of oppression, including restoring control over lands Native Americans consider to be sacred, a U.N.