Guyana News

The police today said that they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2110h.

The Police today said that at about 1630h yesterday Ganesh Jodhan, 40 years of Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, was transporting paddy in a motor tractor/trailer when he lost control of the vehicle along the Hoff Van Aurich Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

A 39-year-old mother of four was last Friday found with her throat slit at her Number 48 Village, Corentyne home and police have since detained her reputed husband.

A Party for National Unity (APNU) member Rupert Roopnaraine last night pledged the political grouping’s support for the private media in Guyana, in view of the attacks by President Bharrat Jagdeo, though he also accused this newspaper of being biased.

Twelve-year-old *Susie (not her real name) picks up her one-month-old baby daughter from the bed as she cries and cradles her.

John Blanchard, who is on remand for the hacking to death of his children, was yesterday morning rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after suffering injuries while in the Camp Street Prison.

The United States is still considering setting up a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office here, according to Julissa Reynoso, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America and the Caribbean in the US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

A Guyanese doctor living in Jamaica was on Friday night shot in the head outside his home at Mandeville, Manchester following an alleged attempted armed robbery.

Teachers at a secondary school in Linden staged a sit-in on Friday to press the region to fast-track repairs to the school, saying that the conditions are dangerous.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar is today likely to name Sam Hinds as his running mate for the upcoming elections, party sources have indicated.

It’s up to former PPP/C minister Moses Nagamootoo to decide whether he will accept an offer that has been on the table since 2006 to join the Alliance For Change (AFC), the AFC’s leader Raphael Trotman said.

Even as telecommunication giant GT&T prepares to launch its Blackberry service in November, the company is intensifying its competition aggression with its existing services by way of giving back to customers two fully furnished houses in a gated community on the outskirts of Georgetown.

The major parties contesting the upcoming polls are being asked to shed light on the process that will be used to identify their prospective representatives in the National Assembly.

Seven persons, six of whom are children, were on Friday night rushed to a city hospital following another attack by bees at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

A meeting between loggers, farmers and Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, in Linden today has drawn the ire of Region Ten Chairman, Mortimer Mingo, who called it a way of “manufacturing” support for the PPP rally to be held close to the meeting site, a contention that was rejected by Persaud.

A poultry vendor of Rosignol market in West Berbice was in the process of setting up a stall at the new Bath market tarmac on Tuesday when regional officials went with the police to dismantle it.

The Mayor and City Council has announced that it will be continuing its amnesty offer to all property owners, discounting interest at 50% on demand.

Some 77 of the over 100 newly-skilled youth and single parents who graduated on Friday from the National Training Project for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) and Single Parents at the Essequibo Technical Institute (ETI), have already found employment.

John Lewis Styles will relocate to its new store at 186 Waterloo Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown on November 1 where there will be larger aisles and more space to browse as well as secure parking in the compound.

A top Antigua and Barbuda maritime official said yesterday that the MV Vega Azurit – a cargo vessel that was intercepted in Jamaica with $112 million in cocaine, is not registered in Antigua and has no links to that island.