Guyana News

The badly decomposing body of an elderly woman was on Friday night found at her home in Kitty.

Three Customs officers and a Berbice Anti-Smuggling Squad (BASS) senior monitoring officer are under investigation after they allegedly colluded with a prominent businessman to evade over $10 million in taxes on 250 boxes of cigarettes brought in from Suriname.

A 19-year old girl and a 22-year-old man were yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital following an accident which occurred along Hague Public Road around 2 am.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday decided on six of the seven members who will represent the party in the National Assembly.

A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Dwayne Little, called “Tattoo” on Friday revealed the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds.

A Brazilian miner was last Thursday found with a suspected gunshot wound under the chin at Arangoy, Cuyuni River and police believe that he might have taken his own life.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former pizza magnate Herman  Cain’s bid for the White House was an unconventional long shot  from the start, but behind the colorful Cain Train a  dysfunctional team has always been on the verge of running off  the tracks.

A gunman, who stole $1.5M in a robbery at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara on Friday evening, was caught by his victim after a car chase.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Brazilian miner Sebastiao DeSouza Silva, 49 years, whose body was found at about 1100h on Thursday December 01, 2011, at Arangoy, Cuyuni River, with a suspected shotgun injury under the chin.

Donald Ramotar was this afternoon sworn in as the country’s seventh executive president at State House.

(Trinidad Express) Trade union leaders, silenced over the last 104 days under the State of Emergency, are prepared to hit the ground running as early as the day after the SoE is lifted.

(Trinidad Express) Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard yesterday said he has not yet been consulted by the police in connection with an alleged plot to destabilise the country and assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Government Ministers.

President-elect Donald Ramotar will be sworn in today at State House.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) candidate David Granger yesterday continued to call on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to verify all of the signed statements of poll from the general elections, saying it is a pre-condition for the acceptance of the results.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday appealed to all political parties to accept the results of last Monday’s general and regional elections, saying that businesses were already hurting by political “walks” and the economy could be damaged if unrest deepens.

Congratulating the people of Guyana for their “dedication to the pursuit of free and fair elections” and calling the results a “win-win” situation, the ABC diplomats, in a statement yesterday called on Guyanese, regardless of political affiliation, to accept the results.

A Speightland/Lower Kara Kara, Linden man was killed on Tuesday at Kokerite, in the North West District.

A 41-year-old woman of Number 70 Village, Corentyne, who was pregnant with her fourth child, lost her life at the New Amsterdam Hospital just before delivery around 7.45 pm on Wednesday.

After waiting three days for the results of this year’s general and regional elections to be announced, many persons in Region Five accepted it as being fair while others were not satisfied.

The victims of Thursday’s fire at John Street, Werk-en-Rust are looking to put the pieces back together and yesterday began clearing the rubble with the aim of rebuilding.