Guyana News

The Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday  launched the Schools Gardening Competition at the Diamond Secondary School, East Bank Demerara, as part of activities to celebrate Education Month.

Region Three drivers agreed to establish a Road Safety Council and to conduct lectures on road safety in schools and communities, at a meeting with Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Sunday as part of the ministry’s programme to encourage citizen participation in road safety.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Australia’s Sam Stosur upset  American Serena Williams 6-2 6-3 today to win an  ill-tempered U.S.

Police say that investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Chris Primus, 20 years, who was found hanging in his cell at the Bartica Police Station at about 0730h today.

The police say they are investigating an incident where at about 2300h on September 06, 2011, a man allegedly threw gasoline on fishermen Veran Motilall, 45 years of Bloomfield, Corentyne, and Leonard Fernandes, 15 years of Rosehall, Corentyne, and around the fishing boat that they were in at the Albion Koker, Corentyne, and lit it afire.

President Bharrat Jagdeo told US officials in 2007 that he intentionally kept bureaucracy in place to protect “the little guy” and blamed the entrepreneurial class for chasing away potential foreign investors by telling untrue tales of the difficulties of doing business in Guyana.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Children yearned for lost  parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard  stone bearing the names of nearly 3,000 dead as America  commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sept.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England completed a series  victory over world champions India today after the fourth  one-day international at Lord’s ended in a Duckworth/Lewis tie  when rain forced the players off the field with seven  balls remaining.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago now rivals Jamaica as the most violent country in the Caribbean, with the number of annual murders rising sharply from 98 to 550 over the last decade, with some areas in the Port of Spain police division being listed among the most dangerous in the world.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Caroline Wozniacki was left  awe-struck by the lethal serves and power game of Serena  Williams, as the American blew away the world number one Dane   in straight sets to reach the final of the U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A hundred and seventy-seven years after slavery was abolished in the British West Indies, Jamaica’s national training agency – HEART Trust – still has to deal with colour-prejudiced employers who are requesting that trainees be brown or light-skinned as a prerequisite for employment in their firms.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Had NDP leader Desi Bouterse caused political unrest under the previous government, it would be doubtful whether the Surinamese intelligence and security service CIVD would be willing to help restore order and calm according to the US Embassy.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber driving a truck  of firewood attacked a NATO base in central Afghanistan, killing  four civilians and injuring 77 foreign troops a day ahead of the  tenth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks, NATO and Afghan  officials said today.

A review of the Amaila Falls access road conducted by external consultants in June highlighted the poorly outlined specifications in the original project document and recommended immediate changes to the design including widening the road and reducing its steepness (grades).

Alliance for Change (AFC) insiders have tipped co-founder of the party, Raphael Trotman to be its prime ministerial candidate for upcoming elections.

In a 2009 cable to Washington, then US Ambassador  John Melvin Jones strongly questioned President Bharrat Jagdeo’s view that enough was being done by Guyana to fight drugs and he was particularly scathing about the role of Dr Roger Luncheon in what he described as the disembowelling of the UK security reform programme.

The body of a young fisherman was yesterday morning discovered near a sluice at the Paradise Village Seawall, Essequibo Coast sea shore with suspected marks of violence.

A 52-year-old woman was last night hit down and killed by a car on Regent Street in the vicinity of Kanhai’s Electrical Store as she was attempting to cross the road.

A Happy Acres rice farmer on Friday night succumbed to injuries, after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a utility pole and some concrete piles at Planters Hall, Mahaicony.

As the world observes the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, which claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people, Guyanese both home and abroad will be mourning their loved ones.