Guyana News

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development on Friday presented each administrative region’s Department of Education, as well as the West Demerara Regional Hospital,

Fourteen customers recently walked away with US$100 each, as part of the ANSA McAL Trading Ltd “Hard Guava Season Cash Giveaway” promotion.

(Barbados Nation) Guyanese are planning to demonstrate in Barbados this week to draw Caribbean and international attention to what they describe as the poor state of human rights in their homeland.

(Trinidad Express) Police used batons and their fists to beat patrons during the 2012 National Panorama semifinals at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain yesterday, after hundreds of pan fans tried to push past barriers because they were blocked from walking between the North Stand and the Greens area.

INDIANAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – The New York Giants battled back to beat the New England Patriots 21-17 and win the Super Bowl with heart-stopping fourth quarter comeback capped by a six-yard touchdown run by Ahmad Bradshaw with 57 seconds left.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) is moving quickly to expand, as its leaders have approved a new economic integration system for the grouping, dubbed ECOALBA.

Police say that investigations are being conducted into an incident that occurred at about 1000h today in the vicinity of Matub Back Channel, Cuyuni River, where two boats collided resulting in the death of nine-month-old Sarah Simmonds.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has forecast an $11B shortfall for 2012, with an escalation in fuel prices being the key factor and the utility has presented a calculation for a 19.5% tariff hike which the government says it will work to avoid.

(Trinidad Guardian) While discharging his responsibilities as Minister of Health, Dr Fuad khan is counting the days when he would be quitting the cabinet position and return to his practice as one of the country’s few urologists.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Integrity Commission has officially commenced a probe into three Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs officials for alleged misbehaviour in public office.

Whether Police Commissioner Henry Greene returns to his office at Police Headquarters Eve Leary is partly in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who is currently advising the police on rape allegations levelled against him.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Senior national security operatives are probing a major security breach at one of Jamaica’s maximum-security prisons that resulted in hardened criminals hosting a marijuana-laced and liquor-filled Christmas party on its compound.

(Barbados Nation) The shooting fraternity said yesterday it was “completely opposed to the illegal possession and use  of firearms and ammunition”.

(Trinidad Express) A 23-year-old Barataria woman was stabbed to death by another woman after an altercation at a bar in San Juan early yesterday morning.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – A half-century by debutant Matt Wade and some middle-order slogging by the Hussey brothers propelled Australia to a 65-run thrashing of hapless India in the rain-shortened first one-day international today.

(Trinidad Express) Former beauty queen Candice Worrel is fighting for her life after being savagely beaten and robbed outside her workplace late last month.

Pirates launched a vicious attack on 15 fishing boats off the coast of the Pomeroon, beating fishermen with cutlasses and destroying boats before escaping with millions in engines, seines, gasoline, fish and fish glue.

Photos by Anjuli Persaud A twenty-minute drive across the Demerara Harbour Bridge, heading to the West Bank of Demerara, takes you to a small village called Nismes.

Farmers across the Pomeroon struggled to cope as waters continued to rise in the river and inundated farmlands yesterday.

Farmers of Yakusari, Black Bush Polder burnt tyres on the road yesterday in frustration over the stagnant floodwater on their farms which has resulted in losses of their rice, cash crops and livestock.