Guyana News

A legendary Trinidadian Qaseeda singer and a veteran Guyanese Muslim Administrator have been honoured for their contributions to the development of Islam in Guyana.

Director General of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Frances J.

The Education Ministry today said it was probing alleged sexual abuse of Aishalton Secondary School students.

DAEGU, South Korea (AFP) — Usain Bolt may have botched the defence of his world 100m crown, but the Jamaican came back to retain his 200m title and run the anchor in a world-record breaking 4x100m relay team.

LONDON/ZURICH, (Reuters) – British police charged  UBS trader Kweku Adoboli today with fraud and  false accounting dating back to 2008, a day after the Swiss bank  was plunged into crisis by revealing a $2 billion trading loss.

(Trinidad Express) Since the State of Emergency was announced by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on August 21, law enforcement officials have arrested 2,167 persons, 447 of them in connection with gang-related offences.

(Trinidad Express) A shooting incident in Laventille, mere minutes before curfew restrictions went into effect in the known crime hot spot on Thursday, left one man dead and another wounded at hospital.

(Jamaica Observer) The Minister Bruce Golding has ordered that the police be called in to investigate the disappearance of 3,000 chairs and 70,000 square feet of carpeting which were in the custody of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) at the newly constructed Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The tourism capital, Montego Bay, is about to lose one of its biggest European carriers, British Airways (BA), as of March 25 next year, highly placed sources have told The Gleaner.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s prime minister-elect Helle Thorning-Schmidt, began piecing together a disparate centre-left government today after an election which ended 10 years of centre-right rule in a voter backlash over the economy.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians poor work ethic may be the biggest impediment to doing business successfully here.

(Barbados Nation) Statistics yesterday showing that Barbados’ unemployment level jumped to 12.1 per cent at the end of June, were removed from the website of the Central Bank of Barbados in the evening.

A 54-year-old counsellor who went to the assistance of a woman who was being physically assaulted by a man was shot dead at a Stabroek Market food stand early yesterday morning.

The government yesterday passed the Access to Information Bill in the absence of the opposition parties, which continued a boycott of extended sittings of the National Assembly.

Guyanese Shameer Allie, a violent convict who was dubbed one of “Canada’s Most Wanted,” was arrested in the Toronto area yesterday morning.

Two women are dead and five persons are hospitalised after an early morning accident yesterday involving a truck that had just left Bartica for the mining fields in Region Seven.

The opposition AFC is trying to whip up public support for a demonstration to mark the “ills and disasters” of the Bharrat Jagdeo presidency, to coincide with an event planned for today to pay tribute to his national contributions.

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has estimated its elections budget at US$6M, but says the incumbent’s access to state funds still makes for an uneven contest.

For three weeks, William Harper thought he was at death’s door.

Footage from a security camera is pointing to the involvement of a tenant in the fire that destroyed a guesthouse and damaged the Car Care building in the city last Friday.