Guyana News

Mahaicony residents are alarmed at the ongoing construction of fish ponds at Drill, Mahaicony, saying it has restricted their access to state land reserves traditionally used for cattle grazing and fishing, and resulted in the degradation of several kilometres of seaside mangrove plants.

Former US Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen made a case for the establishment of a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) office here, warning that the influence of narco-trafficking was creating conditions for the emergence of a narco-state.

Tackling serious crimes in the E & F Division will always be a problem for the police who are undermanned and lack the necessary crime-fighting resources according to retired Brigadier David Granger who advocates appointing two commanders deal with this enormously complex area.

The local US Embassy initially believed that Ronald Waddell’s murder was likely “gang-related,” according to former US Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen.

The US embassy here believed that President Bharrat Jagdeo’s motivation for moving to protect the rainforest was “not preservation for preservation’s sake” but that Guyana may ultimately offer its forests to the highest bidder.

Delta Airlines and Caribbean Airlines (CAL) have cancelled all flights out of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri to the John F Kennedy Airport (JFK) as Hurricane Irene threatens New York and other parts of the US East Coast.

A cable from the US embassy in Georgetown released by WikiLeaks has revealed cloak and dagger interactions between Cuban doctors stationed here and the US mission in 2007.

Several persons sustained mostly minor injuries yesterday in two separate accidents on the East Coast and West Bank of Demerara.

The five volunteers who travelled to Suriname to assist in the search for the missing fishermen returned home on Friday night without being given an opportunity to assist.

Six years after they were first promised, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Cameras are being installed around the city.

India’s world famous Oddissi dancer Dr Sonal Mansingh will be performing Rabindranath Tagore’s Nayikaa at the National Cultural Centre on Wednesday evening.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), its largest affiliate, in a statement on the situation in Libya expressed “abhorrence at the deadly machinations of the West and its NATO forces, under the facade of assisting popular revolt(s) by the people.”

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene  charged up the U.S.

In the aftermath of the murder of Minister of Agriculture Sash Sawh in 2006, the US ambassador here reported to Washington that there was indignation at the inability of the “overwhelmed” police force to solve killings and he also listed a variety of theories including possible connections of the minister to unsavoury characters.

As we said in this space yesterday, this newspaper empathises with Mr Asafa Powell who was forced to withdraw from the individual men’s 100 metres at the 13th International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championships now underway in South Korea because of a groin strain.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet should have a third plane in its fleet by November.

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene  howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf  today on a path threatening the densely populated U.S. 

The proposals from two foreign companies to run the troubled US$200M Skeldon sugar factory is the enhancement of an existing arrangement, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said yesterday.

New regional airline REDjet yesterday announced the indefinite cancellation of all its flights to and from Guyana, Trinidad and Barbados, citing aircraft hydraulic problems.

A truck transporting fuel to the Air Services Limited (ASL) base was denied access to the Ogle airport yesterday, as part of an ongoing row between the domestic airline and the airport’s management.