Guyana News

Patrons and employees of the popular Rockies Brazilian Bar on Light Street in the city suffered a scare yesterday afternoon after an fire ignited at the back of the building.

In an effort to help address the problem of domestic violence here, Operation World Care Network (OCWN) will host a three-day conference from today.

A 23-year-old miner was on Tuesday night stabbed to death, following an argument at a drinking spot in Barlow Landing, Enachu.

Arifa Lisa, the girlfriend of the Dutch Bottle Café robbery suspect who died after being found unconscious in the Brickdam lock-ups, has raised concerns about the circumstances surrounding his death.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – World soccer’s governing body  FIFA opened cases against another 10 officials from the  Caribbean Football Union (CFU) today related to the now  infamous meeting held in Port of Spain, Trinidad in May.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The wife of financial swindler  Bernard Madoff said in an interview to be aired Sunday that  the couple attempted suicide by taking pills on Christmas Eve  2008 after his estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s sports minister  resigned today over a corruption scandal, the country’s  GloboNews television station said, reviving concern over  President Dilma Rousseff’s unstable ruling coalition and the  country’s lagging preparations for the 2014 World Cup.

In the latest of a raft of political re-alignments with general elections just over a month away, The United Force (TUF) has joined up with The Alliance For Change (AFC).

Police today said that they are investigating two murders, one at Enachu and the other at Port Mourant and both were fuelled by alcohol.

At around 9.30 this morning an Air Services Limited Cessna 206 aircraft, bearing the registration number 8RGGE, crashed on landing at Arau in Region Seven, during bad weather conditions.

(Trinidad Guardian) CL Financial has sold the former Seagram distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana for US$29 million (TT$186 million), an official of the Government-controlled conglomerate confirmed yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister John Sandy says new measures are to be implemented to ensure there is swift justice for police indiscipline in T&T. He

(Trinidad Express) A man forced off the road by police officers, who then beat and jailed him, was yesterday awarded TT$76,000 in compensation by the High Court.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica is to embark on a radical new tourism strategy based in part on the 2007 Cricket World Cup special visa system.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Andrew Holness administration has a new face to communicate its policies and programmes with Senator Arthur Williams getting the additional portfolio of information while the outspoken Daryl Vaz has been given a new task – that of driving public-sector efficiency.

Residents of Whim, Corentyne, Berbice, the hometown of Moses Nagamootoo, had mixed reaction yesterday as word spread about his resignation from the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

Vendors from approximately 100 stalls operating at the Stabroek Market in Section 5 have raised concerns about a two-day flooding which has caused a “major loss” after the valve of the koker broke during the high tide on Sunday.

Guyana’s representative Arti Cameron will not be participating at the Miss World 2011 pageant now underway in London, England.

For over two days, the residents of Stevedore Housing Scheme have been livid over the stench emanating from a broken compactor loaded with garbage, which is parked in the nearby Cevon’s Waste Management storage facility.

Businessman Peter Ramsaroop has endorsed the PPP/C. A longstanding and bitter critic of the PPP/C and President Bharrat Jagdeo,  Ramsaroop in a statement issued by the PPP/C yesterday said he had reviewed the party’s manifesto and was