Guyana News

(Trinidad Guardian) More than 8,400 girls and 1,300 boys under 19 years of age were married in T&T between 1997-2007. These

(Trinidad Express) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has instructed the police to investigate the airing of a video clip on Ian Alleyne’s Crime Watch programme on CCN TV6.

(Trinidad Express) Businessman Brian Alexander, owner of the popular Icon Restaurant and Bar in Cunupia, was shot dead yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) An 18-year-old trainee of the Helping Youth Prepare for Employment (HYPE) programme was yesterday stabbed to death outside the compound of Metal Industries Company Ltd (MIC), in Macoya, allegedly by a fellow trainee.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian forces killed top FARC  rebel leader Alfonso Cano yesterday in the biggest blow yet to  Latin America’s longest insurgency and a triumph for President  Juan Manuel Santos, the Defense Ministry said.

A young couple died this evening following a motorcycle accident on the Houston Public Road on the East Bank of Demerera.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, (Reuters) – A huge asteroid will  pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, giving  scientists a rare chance for study without having to go through  the time and expense of launching a probe, officials said.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister George  Papandreou won a parliamentary confidence vote today,  avoiding snap elections which would have torpedoed Greece’s  bailout deal and inflamed the euro zone’s economic crisis.

The Department of Government & International Affairs of the University of Guyana today said it will be hosting a forum involving the presidential candidates of the Alliance For Change (AFC), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and The United Force (TUF).

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Alvious Goddette,  26 years of Potaro Road, Bartica, who is reported to have been stabbed to his chest at about 2130h on Wednesday at a shop at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni.

Police today said that the person whose photograph is shown here and who is so far unidentified, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to a series of armed robberies.

Police today issued a bulletin for Delson Wayne, 26, for questioning in relation to Robbery Under Arms.

Four men, who were nabbed in Berbice by Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers yesterday with cocaine, were this afternoon arraigned on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and were remanded to prison.

Barbados authorities yesterday found 60 kilos of cocaine aboard a vessel that left Guyana last Friday.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The nearly ninety minutes that power was out in large parts of the country yesterday evening could soon yield more than US$ 20 million in damage.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Republic Bank Group has recorded a profit attributable to shareholders of TT$1.1 billion, a 12.8 per cent increase over last year’s performance. In

(Trinidad Guardian) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will soon be visiting Trinidad to examine 223 patients who were allegedly overexposed to radiation at the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre in Woodbrook. Health

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Iran is the biggest threat  to the United States in the Middle East, surpassing al Qaeda,  which is down but not out, a senior U.S.

(Trinidad Express) A 42-year-old school teacher was denied bail yesterday when he appeared before a Sangre Grande magistrate charged with having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

(Trinidad Express) Warrants have been issued for the arrest of three senior public servants on charges that they defrauded the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) of more than TT$0.6 million.