Guyana News

“If we will eradicate poverty, we must have a proper education system.”

Organisers of the Excellence in Carib-bean Agricultural Journalism Awards 2011 have announced the winners of the first edition of the regional awards and the Best News Story (Print) awardee is Stabroek News reporter Gaulbert Sutherland.

Three persons who were arrested in connection with derogatory graffiti about President Bharrat Jagdeo which were spray-painted across roads along the East Coast, East Bank and in the city, were yesterday released on station bail.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In about 85% of pharmacies and drugstores in Suriname, fake medicines, mostly made in China, are sold alongside original products.

RENO, Nev.,  (Reuters) – The death toll in the crash  of a vintage World War Two fighter plane near the grandstand at  a Nevada air race has risen to nine, authorities said on  Saturday.  

The Alliance For Change (AFC) duo that captured five parliamentary seats in 2006 were reunited yesterday with the election of party leader, Raphael Trotman as the prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming general elections, though now the positions are reversed.

Police say that at about 1600h. yesterday while police ranks at Mahdia were responding to a report of break and enter and larceny, they stopped and searched a man at Konawaruk Junction, Tumatumari, who was seen to be acting suspiciously as they approached.

(Trinidad Express) The level of poverty in Trinidad and Tobago is estimated to have risen by nearly two per cent during the 2008-2009 period, Planning Minister Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie has said.

(Trinidad Express) Regional airline REDjet announced that the airline’s fares from Jamaica to both Barbados and Trinidad went on sale yesterday via the airline’s website www.flyredjet.com

(Trinidad Express) Drug-related offences and the number of people appearing before the courts charged with such offences are of concern to the judiciary.

(Trinidad Express) Customs and Excise Division officers late on Thursday discovered compressed marijuana valued at more than $30 million concealed in a refrigerated container at the Point Lisas port.

(Jamaica Observer) Another beheading has occurred in the Corporate Area. Police report that the headless body of a man was found at Hopefield Avenue in St Andrew just after dawn this morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) At least one Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Thomas has begun returning more than 600 chairs which went missing from the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James.

The Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc. has joined the Broadcasters of North America in extending condolences to the family of former GBS staff member, Howard Allan Liverpool.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s Yohan Blake threatened countryman Usain Bolt’s world record yesterday when he ran 19.26 seconds to win the 200 metres at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting in Brussels.

(Barbados Nation) Preparation  for the construction of a BDS$160 million private hospital in Barbados will start within the next six months, says its head honcho Dr Paul Angelchik.

(Barbados Nation) Beware, shoplifters and other crooks in Barbados, you may soon be on candid camera before the courts.

(Barbados Nation) Was the shooting death of Bernadene Spooner a follow-up to a foiled break-in two weeks ago?

 ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – The Haqqani network, one of  the most feared insurgent groups in Afghanistan, would take part  in peace talks with the Kabul government and the United States  only if the Taliban did, its leader Sirajuddin Haqqani told  Reuters on Saturday.

By Gaulbert Sutherland and Frances Abraham Hailed as a visionary who put the Guyana’s economy on a solid footing and the country on the world map, President Bharrat Jagdeo was honoured at a ‘Day of Appreciation’ yesterday that drew thousands of supporters but also became a lightning rod for critics.