Guyana News

Digicel’s network has been encountering problems since midday yesterday and according to the company’s Public Relations Officer Shonnet Moore technicians are working around the clock to rectify the situation.

Outgoing President Bharrat Jagdeo today lambasted Moses Nagamootoo, saying he is someone who does not deserve to be respected.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) today lashed out at Moses Nagamootoo for joining the Alliance For Change (AFC), saying that he has always sent selfish signals in his quest for power Executive of the party and Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee  at a Freedom House press briefing called to address the Nagamootoo endorsement of the AFC, said that given

ASSISI, Italy, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict, leading a  global inter-religious meeting,  acknowledged on Thursday “with  great shame” that Christianity had used force in its long  history as he joined other religious leaders in condemning  violence and terrorism in God’s name.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Euro zone leaders struck a  last-minute deal today to contain the currency bloc’s  two-year-old debt crisis but are now under pressure to finalise  the details of their plan to slash Greece’s debt burden and  strengthen their rescue fund.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Ken Baugh, said Jamaica will not suffer, as a result of its absence from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting taking place in Perth, Australia.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Although no one says it outright, talks with Parliamentarians from both opposition and coalition show that they consider the demands such as ‘the right to self-determination’ made by the Indigenous and Marrons at last weekend’s land rights conference to be unrealistic.

(Barbados Nation) Murders have been on a steady increase since 1997 and of late guns are becoming the weapon of choice in the committal of violent offences.

(Trinidad Express) Police officers, who were on Tuesday searching for the body of an Arima man who was reported missing, last Friday, had to run for their lives after they were attacked by bees in a forest in Arima.

(Trinidad Express) The shooting death of a 36-year-old San Juan man, which occurred mere minutes before curfew restrictions took effect on Tuesday night, is engaging the attention of police.

Moses Nagamootoo will be on the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) list of candidates along with former TUF presidential candidate Valerie Garrido-Lowe.

Soldiers leaving the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) base at Tacama, Berbice River are rarely searched, making the smuggling of grenades or any type of arms an easy task, a source has said.

The pilot and three passengers on board a light Cessna 206 aircraft operated by Air Services Limited (ASL) escaped with minor injuries after the plane overturned shortly after landing at the Arau airstrip in Region 7 yesterday.

Former Guyana People’s Partnership (GPP) leader Peter Ramsaroop has said that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) members forced him out—a claim disputed by the opposition coalition’s presidential candidate David Granger.

With just over a month before elections, presidential candidate for opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) David Granger believes that his policies are what set him apart from the other candidates, especially that of the incumbent PPP/C, which he says faces greater resentment now than in past years.

Twenty–five-year-old Hubert Hunte, the motorcyclist who collided with a minibus close to the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) last evening, succumbed to his injuries this morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Pitching the presidential candidacy of Donald Ramotar at Tuesday’s night Diwali programme at the LBI Community Centre, President Bharrat Jagdeo urged the massive crowd gathered to see elections day as part of “the struggle” to ensure that the country never returns to the days when culture and identity were under “active assault”.

Australia and Caribbean Community nations yesterday pledged to build on a growing partnership and to continue sharing experiences and expertise in addressing development challenges in the Caribbean.

A 15-year-old girl has been reported missing and her guardians have since received a telephone call for a $50,000 ransom.

An argument over politics during a drinking spree has led to the chopping and subsequent death of a 31-year-old labourer of Strand, New Amsterdam, Berbice around 5.45 pm on Saturday.