Guyana News

A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted this morning at Victoria, East Coast Demerara after he came into contact with a live electrical wire while trying to pull down his kite.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he will be home from Cuba in a week and start radiation therapy for cancer that could leave him weakened ahead of his re-election bid on Oct.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has confirmed that he visited Cuban Raul Garcia last week at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds.

(Barbados Nation) CARICOM governments seem to be in a bind over what to do with their Implementation Agency for Crime And Security (IMPACS).

(Barbados Nation) Local law enforcement officials have told the American authorities that Barbados is seeing an increasing number of drug mules ingesting their illegal contraband to get it into the country.

A Caribbean Airlines employee is in police custody following the discovery of two bags containing 10 kilos of cocaine which were dumped over the perimeter fence at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri on Saturday night.

As one of two men shot during a weekend execution-style attempt battles for his life hooked up to a life support machine, his family is refuting claims that he is involved in shady deals and said the incident raises many unanswered questions.

Women of Itaballi – a small mining and logging community on the Essequibo River – are calling on the authorities to take urgent measures to save the young girls of the village who they say are being sexually exploited by men including law enforcers.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday said that former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge tabled dated audited accounts while he was minister and none for the actual years that he presided in the ministry.

Close to US$180M will be spent in the near term by Canadian companies holding licences to mine gold here, according to Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud.

The ferries plying the Georgetown-North West route will be replaced with the government examining a number of options, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn says.

Oil company, CGX Energy has passed the 5000 feet mark in drilling its exploration well off the Corentyne coast.

A city businessman is threatening legal action following what he described as a frightening ordeal at the Kitsingh Dental Clinic and Lab located at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara where he went on Saturday to extract a tooth.

The University of Guyana has advertised for a new Vice-Chancellor and Principal.

The ‘Operation Rescue UG’ grouping has issued a petition calling on the authorities to appoint a new University of Guyana Council.

Proposals submitted early last year by a committee under the chairmanship of the President of the Caribbean Develop-ment Bank will shortly be considered for adoption with a view to providing early relief to the many policyholders adversely affected by the financial collapse of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) and its subsidiary British American Insurance Company (BAICO).

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee yesterday lauded all those who have contributed to keeping community policing alive in Guyana.

Who should foot the bill? The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) or the offending state?

A midnight collision between two vehicles on the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Saturday saw traffic backed up for some time.

Leader of the Opposition David Granger says that while the Opposition does not want gridlock in Parliament, the prospects for the passage of the national budget look grim since one month after a commitment for budget talks was given by the Government it is yet to be honoured.