Guyana News

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Philippe formed  in the far eastern Atlantic yesterday, becoming the 16th  named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S. 

A senior US envoy here was of the view in 2009 that the large investment expected from oil explorer CGX might be a carrot for President Bharrat Jagdeo to remain in office beyond his term and she also related to Washington how Jagdeo intervened to clear hurdles that the company was experiencing.

A mentally ill woman last evening slashed the throat of a 39-year-old father of two as he made his way home.

Deputy Leader and long-standing member of The United Force (TUF) Michael Abraham feels that his party has lost popularity because of its alignment with the PPP/C administration and believes that if the party is to join forces with another group it should be the AFC.

A fisherman from the Corentyne has been taken into custody after he was said to be in possession of a seine belonging to Gajadar Bisnauth from whose boat five workers disappeared last month.

Norway has released US$1.1M to Guyana outside of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) – the agreed mechanism for the disbursement of funds under the two countries forests’ agreement – in order to enable Guyana to meet its contractual obligations under the partnership.

A 44-year-old mechanic attached to the Albion Sugar Estate on the Corentyne succumbed on Friday night to injuries he sustained when a tractor crushed him in the Belvedere backdam around 6 pm on Thursday.

For relatives of Navin Serrao who was pumped full of bullets during a drive-by shooting on Thomas Lands in June 2007, the motive behind his death will always be a mystery even though police had said there was a drug link, a statement which they had repeatedly denied.

President Bharrat Jagdeo was worried that the 2007 JFK International Airport terror plot arrests would be a “big, black eye” for Guyana and he told Washington he was prepared to have suspects extradited to the US.

A 38-year-old man is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Hospital while his girlfriend is nursing a broken femur after the motor cycle they were on slammed head on into a car which was parked across Middle Road, La Penitence, early yesterday morning.

The teen who was found hanging in the washroom of the Charity Secondary School dormitory last Tuesday, died as a result of asphyxiation due to compression to the neck.

Opposition coalition APNU has said it is committed to rebuilding the professionalism of the Foreign Service, which it says the PPP/C has made impotent.

Civic organisation coalition FacingtheFuture (FtF) has invited the three alliances contesting the upcoming polls to participate in a public forum to outline their plans for the police force.

A United States-based woman who was a passenger on the Caribbean Airlines jet that crash-landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on July 30, is too traumatized to travel back home.

Following recent pirate attacks on the Corentyne, opposition coalition APNU has renewed a call to the administration to equip the defence forces with the personnel, vessels and resources to protect citizens and make the coast safe.

A Brazilian miner is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after he was shot in the back at a mining camp at Butterfly Backdam, Port Kaituma.

The cost of the modification work currently being undertaken on the Amaila Falls access road is yet to be determined but it is felt that the additional sums to be spent now will help to reduce the overall cost of the project.

The Education Ministry is extending remedial programmes for “slow learners” in the subject areas of Mathematics and English to all public primary and secondary schools countrywide.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Ophelia swirled  across the open Atlantic toward the Caribbean today on a  path likely to take it well off the northeastern coast of  Puerto Rico, U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela and Iran postponed a visit to Caracas today by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez recovered from a fourth round of cancer treatment, officials said.