Guyana News

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago, the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas to the US, said exports to that country have fallen “sharply” because of rising US shale gas production.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Cricket’s world test  championship will not begin until 2017, International Cricket  Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat announced today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Males outnumbered females in new cases of cancer and cancer deaths in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Winston Dookeran says French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s naming of T&T as a tax haven was premature and improper.

(Jamaica Observer) Six policemen who were assigned to the Gun Court Remand Centre have been transferred and are facing certain corruption charges after they were allegedly caught on camera taking money from a close relative of jailed popular entertainer Vybz Kartel.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – There is a shortage of 400 beef cattle a month.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says tertiary education in Barbados will remain free across the board, dismissing suggestions that only the “less well off” should receive state subsidies.

KOLKATA, (Reuters) – Rahul Dravid made the most  of superb batting conditions at Eden Gardens to post his 36th  test hundred and put India in charge after the first day of the  second test against West Indies today.

PPP/C officials yesterday warned supporters not to trust the AFC and APNU saying that the two parties are conspiring to deny the ruling party another term and if the PPP/C fails to get over 50% of the votes, “cat eat the dinner of all of us.”

A 36-year-old man died yesterday under suspicious circumstances following a collision on Wellington Street in the city.

After at least 15 years of planning and various obstacles including funding and a proper location, the National Veterans Home, is finally complete and will soon open its doors to impoverished veterans.

Seven persons were left homeless after a late morning fire engulfed their home at Lot 66, Block 8, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

The Guyana Energy Agency, through Special Prosecutor, Attorney-at-Law, Gino Persaud, secured two more convictions at the Leguan

Bartica police yesterday received unconfirmed reports about a minibus without a licence plate being spotted at one of the Essequibo River crossings and this sparked heightened security watches.

Road safety practices have been a missing component from schools in Linden for a number of years but thanks to the coordinators of the National Road Safety Council, that void has been filled with a number of students being trained especially when it comes to the use of the pedestrian crossing.

Residents of the Parfait Harmonie Housing Scheme, on the West Bank of Demerara, want authorities to repair their deplorable roads and clear the weed-infested canals and drains that cause flooding whenever it rains When Stabroek News visited the area and spoke to some of the residents, they complained that ever since they moved into the area,

Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member Cathy Hughes said on Saturday evening that Guyana would have been more developed had there not been the level of corruption there is and promised that under an AFC-led government jobs will be created and VAT would be reduced.

Former judge of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Guyanese Odel Adams has passed away.

(Barbados Nation) It’s safe to say that Guyana have mastered regional rugby.

(Trinidad Express) “Are you insinuating for one minute that if the police are attacked they should turn their back and run?”