Guyana News

A 20-year-old pedal cyclist on Tuesday midday lost his life, after he was struck down while attempting to cross the Timehri Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

By Iva Wharton Resuscitating female football at the junior level is a hard task according to Roxanne Keith, coach of Pele’s under-13 female team.

Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated (BMGGI) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) have entered a new Collective Labour Agreement and a financial package agreement.

Two men who allegedly robbed another of $123,000 in items were placed on $80,000 bail each on Tuesday after they appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Two policemen were wounded in a gun battle that capped off a terrifying spate of shootings that killed three and marred Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade on Monday, the New York Daily News has reported.

Almost four  months after  the  May 20th gruesome slaying of Verone Pattoir at Lot 42 Mudflat, Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, hire car driver   Sevak Rampersaud called Suresh, has been charged with her killing.

Regional airline REDjet is expected to expand its fleet by this year end and it today sought to explain several hiccups with its service in which hundreds of passengers were affected.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Maria formed in  the Atlantic today while Hurricane Katia churned up the  surf along the beaches of Bermuda and the eastern United  States, the U.S.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1230h.

Police say that at about 1.15 am today a man was alerted by the barking of dogs at his home at Seafield Village, WCB, and on checking saw two men stealing two horses from his brother’s yard nearby.

Police say that at about 10.30 last night, mini-bus driver Daniel Subramani, his wife Taranella Subramani and their two children were in hammocks at their home at Helena No.

Almost four  months after  the  May 20th gruesome slaying of Verone Pattoir at Lot 42 Mudflat, Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, hire car driver   Sevak Rampersaud called Suresh, has been charged with her killing.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon in 2005 had reportedly told US Embassy officials that he preferred “sanctions other than prosecution” against drug lords.

(Jamaica Observer) The Victoria Jubilee Hospital implemented a procedural security change yesterday in response to last Saturday’s frightening incident in which a mentally ill patient infected with HIV/AIDS went into the maternity hospital’s nursery and breastfed another woman’s week-old baby.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican police yesterday refused to commit to a criminal probe against Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the west Kingston drug lord who pleaded guilty to narcotics and firearm-related charges in the United States (US) last week.

(Trinidad Express) An investigation has been launched into an alleged threat by members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen against the lives of People’s National Movement (PNM) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and Senator Fitzgerald Hinds.

(Trinidad Express) Government spokesmen have told the Opposition PNM that the state of emergency was called because a Colombian drug gang wanted to kill members of a Trinidad and Tobago drug gang, following the TT$22 million drug bust at Piarco.

Barbados coast guard head confirms WikiLeaks chat (Barbados Nation) World whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has suggested there was “internal corruption” in the Barbados Coast Guard (BCG), and that a new commander was drafted in two years ago to “clean house”.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – On Monday evening, 42-year-old Anthony Eersel was robbed by two men of his golden necklace and wallet.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is entering agreements worth Bds$15.7 million with the People’s Republic of China for economic and technical projects in several areas of cooperation between the two countries.