Guyana News

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The very thought of Sachin Tendulkar and his contemporaries being shown the exit door would have been dismissed a year ago, but the majority of the Indian cricket fans are now convinced that the ‘golden generation’ should make way for new blood.

A South Ruimveldt Secondary School student was shot dead late Friday night when a hunting trip at Adventure, Soesdyke/Linden Highway went horribly wrong and up to press time last night, his father was one of two men in police custody.

In his waterfront shop on the Pomeroon River, Rudolph Gobin and a friend take a drink and argue over the prices of farm produce and the weather.

y Roxanne Clarke with photos by Anjuli Persaud La Bonne Intention familiarly known as LBI is a village located on the East Coast of Demerara.

Despite the University of Guyana’s financial straits, the government is still to activate a US$10 million World Bank loan to overhaul the science and technology departments, outgoing Vice-Chancellor Professor Lawrence Carrington revealed on Friday.

This is the fifth in our series on new parliamentarians A Partnership for National Unit (APNU) parliamentarian Christopher Jones will be pushing for a national youth policy which would seeks to create meaningful activities for young people to

The new make-up of the National Assembly can help bridge the gap between the Parliament and the wider population, Opposition Leader David Granger believes.

More than a month after several protesters were shot with rubber bullets by police, a report on the investigation into the actions of the ranks is yet to be made public and those injured are still awaiting justice.

A businessman early yesterday shot and injured two burglars that he reportedly caught red-handed in his Waterloo Street, Georgetown premises.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) on the occasion of You-mun-Nabi this year will host Aashiq Al-Rasul in Guyana on Sunday, February 5 at 14:00 hrs at the National Cultural Centre under the theme “Mercy to All Mankind”, celebrating the life  of the Prophet Muhammad, a press release from the CIOG said.

The University of Guyana is pursuing a partnership with the Beijing Technological and Business University to set up a Confucius Institute here for teaching Chinese language and culture.

Upscale Guyana Restaurant on Friday facilitated a Literature Workshop for students of city schools with Trinidadian Literature and Music Group Freetown Collective.

The Georgetown Municipal-ity will next month embark on a public awareness campaign to sensitise the public to the importance of keeping the city clean as the council sees such responsibilities as resting with the citizenry.

The Santa Rosa Village Council has produced documentation justifying its decision to give land tenure rights to Leonard Torres, the stepfather of Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai in a controversy over the eviction of his niece, Melania Torres, that has the Region One community abuzz.

On January 13 four men who pretended to be customers brazenly robbed the Mena and Joey Garden of Eden Variety Store in a broad daylight holdup, relieving the shopkeeper of items valued in excess of $1 million.

Director of the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) Dr Shanti Singh has described a recent study which found that existing programmes in Guyana for men who have sex with men (MSM) are small scale as not being “entirely true.”

Several suspects have been arrested and released in connection with the murder of Karen Reid, the beer garden owner who was killed on Christmas Eve.

The decomposing body of a woman, found aback of the Bedford Methodist Church, Camp Street on November 30, 2011, was earlier this month buried at the Good Hope cemetery.

The burning desire to create an avenue for Guyanese women to unite and work together in addressing the many ills that affect them is behind newspaper columnist Stella Ramsaroop’s move

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five people – two children and three adults – died early this morning during a fire of unknown origin at their house on Spencer Close, Kingston 8.