Guyana News

Oil exploration company CGX on Tuesday announced that it had completed a deal which allows it to proceed with the financing of several wells offshore Guyana.

(WICB) Chittagong, Bangladesh – Devendra Bishoo is “big” on Test cricket.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The claim by attorneys of  Michael Jackson’s doctor that the singer killed himself with an  injection of the powerful anesthetic propofol is a “crazy  scenario,” a top anesthesiology expert testified today.

Police say that at about  2300h last night, businessman Heeralall Sookdeo, 56 years, of Courbane Park, Annandale, ECD, and a female friend were held up by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, at a Chinese restaurant on Sheriff Street, Georgetown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama today hailed Muammar Gaddafi’s death as a warning to  authoritarian leaders across the Middle East that iron-fisted  rule “inevitably comes to an end,” and as vindication for his  cautious strategy towards Libya.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud  Jibril, citing a forensic report, said today ousted Libyan  leader Muammar Gaddafi died from a bullet wound to the head  received in crossfire between interim government fighters and  his own supporters after he had been captured.

(Reuters) – The new Libyan government’s television  channel broadcast today a close-up picture showing Muammar  Gaddafi’s son, Mo’tassim, lying dead on a stretcher in what  appeared to be a hospital.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Al Jazeera television showed  images of Muammar Gaddafi, apparently wounded but still alive  when he was captured.

LA FRIA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan leader  Hugo Chavez declared himself cancer-free today, four  months after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor that shook the  South American nation ahead of a 2012 presidential vote.

Hundreds of people from all sections of Region 10 flood the Linmine Constabulary Drill Square at Linden this morning for the distribution of some 1,000 house lots.

SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi was killed  by Libyans he once scorned as “rats”, succumbing to wounds, some  seemingly inflicted after his capture by fighters who overran  his last redoubt today in his hometown of Sirte.

(Trinidad Guardian) A misdiagnosed illness went wrong at the beleaguered San Fernando General Hospital on Tuesday when a Penal teenager, who was being treated for leptospirosis, died from dengue haemorrhagic fever.

By Marcelle Thomas The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has defended surgery done on a young woman who checked into the hospital with `labour’ pain but which was later discovered to be a false pregnancy and reportedly the first of its kind at the hospital.

With more students opting to sit the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), Minister of Education Shaik Baksh yesterday said there are plans to create a sixth form school.

Valerie Garrido–Lowe yesterday vowed to resist attempts to oust her from The United Force (TUF), saying that she is still leader until party members decide otherwise.

After weeks of delay, A Partnership for National Unity has picked Working People’s Alliance Co-leader Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, 68, as the running mate for its presidential candidate David Granger.

Guyana will be among former British colonies in the region that will be asked to repeal laws criminalising homosexuality at next week’s biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in Perth, Australia.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang and Justice Rishi Persaud at a Full Court sitting last Friday discharged an injunction that blocked the construction of a multi-cinema complex and shopping mall at Area K, Plantation Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara.

Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Jennifer Webster,  told a climate change and development for Africa conference this week in Ethiopia that while there is need for a legally binding international climate treaty, progress to date remains bleak, and there are also serious problems with climate finances.

A collision between a motorcycle and a car last evening around 8:30pm at the junction of Middle and Carmichael Streets left two  policemen injured and they were up to press time at the Georgetown Public Hospital receiving medical attention.