Guyana News

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) is urging Muslims to celebrate Eid ul Adha by praying for peace and unity in Guyana and the wider world and for protection from natural disasters and other calamities.

Robert Corbin’s absence from A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) leadership team and from the coalition’s lists of candidates is in keeping with the PNCR leader’s publicly stated position of not seeking public office, APNU presidential candidate David Granger has said.

The Methodist Church, Guyana, guided by its theme and mission “Growing up in Christ, Reaching out and Transforming the Nation”, hosted a public forum aimed at setting a new political culture at which the recent 8% pay hike for public servants took centre stage.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s  unbeaten 24th test century hauled West Indies out of a rut,  powering them to 256 for five wickets on the opening day of the  first test against India today.

(Reuters) – Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier,  who earned boxing immortality after three epic fights with  Muhammad Ali, is in hospice care with liver cancer, his manager  said on Saturday.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Accusations against the government of manipulation or intimidation of Indigenous communities in South Suriname are baseless.

KANO, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Dozens were killed in a  spate of coordinated gun and bomb attacks in the northeastern  Nigerian city of Damaturu yesterday, leaving the city almost  deserted and bodies piling up in local morgues, witnesses said  today.

(Jamaica Observer) Two of the three men who were Thursday found hacked to death in Blackwood Terrace, Red Hills Road, Kingston were identified by the police yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The anticipation of Sachin  Tendulkar’s 100th international century is the expected  highlight of the team’s three-test series against West Indies  but India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is not willing to let it  become a distraction.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – West Indies captain Darren  Sammy today promised a “fearless” display in the  three-test series against India, which he labelled as his team’s  biggest challenge to date.

A Guyanese vessel was seized in Bridgetown, Barbados on Thursday with a large quantity of cocaine and marijuana and five Guyanese are now in custody.

Four men were yesterday remanded to prison after being arraigned on drug trafficking charges stemming from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) cocaine bust in Berbice.

Opposition groups AFC and APNU yesterday poured cold water on the government’s announced 8% pay-hike for public servants, calling it a PPP/C bribe for votes and a gimmick that will be eaten up by inflation and taxation.

A young couple was killed last evening, following a motorcycle accident on the Houston Public Road, along the East Bank of Demerara.

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday announced that its candidate Donald Ramotar would participate in a presidential debate being organised by the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) and a University of Guyana forum.

Parika vendors were yesterday told that they have until December 31, 2011 to occupy stalls in the Parika Market, to facilitate modifications to the Parika stelling to accommodate the roll-on–roll-off ferry service.

Bartica resident Alvious Goddette was stabbed to death on Wednesday, at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni, in Region 7.

A church meeting ended prematurely on Wednesday night when a bandit barged into the Bible Way Church at Canvas City, Linden and robbed members at gunpoint.

A New Amsterdam resident has lost part of her right arm and is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after she was viciously attacked by three of her nephew’s pit bull dogs.

Jettoo’s Lumber Yard and Sawmill (JLYS) is planning a logging operation in the Mazaruni, Region Seven and says it will invest over US$2 million in the first five years of business.