Guyana News

ZAGREB, (Reuters) – World record holder Usain Bolt  won the 100 metres dash at an IAAF World Challenge event today in a personal season’s best time of 9.85 seconds on a  hot and humid evening in Croatia’s capital.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Rapper Gucci Mane will spend  the next six months in jail in Georgia after admitting today to pushing a woman out of his car earlier this year.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Tyler Perry, who has  his own film and TV studio in Atlanta, ranks atop the list of  Hollywood’s highest paid men, in a new ranking from Forbes.com 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The number of Americans  living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last  year, the U.S.

Guyana and China yesterday signed a 30 million RMB ($920M) grant agreement that would see funding for several projects here that are still to be determined.

A mother of seven was this morning brutally chopped by her husband at Rasta Country, Laluni Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As anger boils in Jamaica over reports of colour prejudice in the job market, a livid labour and social security minister, Pearnel Charles, has likened the skin-tone discrimination to apartheid South Africa and has vowed to drag bigoted employers before the courts.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Important oil finds in the deep sea area of French Guiana give Staatsolie new hope that considerable reserves are to be found in the sea bottom in front of Suriname’s coast.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The number of people living with  diabetes has soared to 366 million, and the disease kills one  person every seven seconds, posing a “massive challenge” to  healthcare systems worldwide, experts said today.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-one men who were arrested and charged under the Anti-Gang legislation yesterday celebrated and showered their attorneys with praises following their release.

(Trinidad Express) Ties between Trinidad and Tobago and China will soon be stronger as Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that a Trade and Investment Office will be established in China as part of a proposed Trinidad and Tobago Embassy in the People’s Republic of China.

(Trinidad Express) Laura Asbjornsen, vice president communications Caribbean Airlines (CAL), has been terminated from her position at the State carrier.

Following the capture of Roger Khan, US Ambassador Roland Bullen told Washing-ton that the now convicted drug lord had been protected by two senior government officials and he also said that persons had related to the embassy that they had seen Khan leaving the Office of the President.

US Ambassador David Robinson told Washington in 2007 that international observers were increasingly uneasy about the “autocratic” tendencies of President Bharrat Jagdeo and his willingness to hit critics – like Stabroek News – where it hurts.

A Brazilian woman was on Saturday afternoon found with her throat slit in an internet café at Takutu Backdam, Region Eight and three men are in police custody assisting with investigations.

A 17-year-old boy lost his life on Sunday night when the car he was driving crashed into a utility pole on the Number 19 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

A man and a woman who were passengers aboard a steamer travelling to Port Kaituma when they were allegedly found trafficking in 600 grammes of cannabis were yesterday remanded to prison by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The discovery by external consultants that the original specifications for the Amaila Falls access road were poorly designed could provide an escape route for the contractor Fip Motilall not to fulfil his contract, consumer activist Ramon Gaskin fears.

One Grade 5 pupil, out of 1,000 entered for a national Spelling Bee competition, will win the opportunity to represent Guyana at the Caribbean Spelling Bee in St Kitts.

Parents and students of the Golden Grove Secondary School, aggrieved at the failure by authorities to address the deplorable conditions at the school, are today taking their protest in front of Office of the President.