Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has declared a limited State of Emergency in hot spots across the country.

AL-MAYA/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Rebel fighters streamed  into Tripoli as Muammar Gaddafi’s forces collapsed and crowds  took to the streets to celebrate, tearing down posters of the  Libyan leader.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Rafael Khan, 33 years of Queenstown, Essequibo, whose body was found at about 1600h yesterday at Mowasie Backdam, Mahdia, Potaro, with suspected stab wounds to the chest.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Prosecutors will ask a judge  to dismiss all charges in the sexual assault case against  former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing  on Tuesday, the New York Post reported today, citing  unnamed sources.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s government is  ready for immediate negotiations with rebels seeking to oust  him, and has asked NATO to convince the rebel forces to halt an  attack on Tripoli, a spokesman said on state television today.

(Trinidad Express) Cultural icon and Trinity Cross recipient Pat Bishop has died.

(Barbados Nation) Health authorities are monitoring the importation of used vehicles that may have been contaminated by radiation after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan that seriously damaged a nuclear plant there.

The pilot of a Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) aircraft and four passengers escaped with minor injuries after a Britten Norman Islander aircraft skidded off the Port Kaituma runway in Region One late yesterday morning.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent engagement with Good Earth Development concerning the construction of a railway from Brazil to Guyana was just an introductory encounter where a concept was communicated to the Head of State, says company CEO Mark Chatarpal.

Guyana and Norway are expected to ink an agreement shortly to enable a second tranche of money to be disbursed to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) outside of the agreed mechanism under their forests partnership.

With ‘Gaza Emperor’ Vybz Kartel a no-show, it was ‘Gully God’ Mavado who sated the thousands who flocked to the National Stadium for the Jamzone regional night mega-concert on Friday.

Three months have passed and investigators are no closer to determining who killed Industry, East Coast Deme-rara businessman Mark Kandhai and why.

There are a number of exciting possibilities for the expansion and growth of Guyana’s economy arising from conventional trade opportunities as well as non-traditional new technology-based services, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh told a seminar at the Grand Coastal Inn Tuesday.

Police have not been able to make any arrest in last Friday’s gruesome murder of pharmacist Harold Rachpaul but have concluded that robbery was the motive.

The government remains tight-lipped regarding the latest developments with the Marriott Hotel even as it pushes ahead to fulfil its promise to get the project under way before year end.

Fans of Indian actress and model Shilpa Shetty turned up in their numbers at the Providence Stadium last evening but were disappointed after her much-anticipated `headlining’ performance failed to happen.

For more than an hour last Wednesday, Professor Clem Seecharan discussed and read excerpts from his latest publication Mother India‘s Shadow over El Dorado: Indo Guyanese politics & Identity 1890s-1930s outlining to the small gathering at Moray House some significant changes that occurred in the East Indian community during this period.

A plan to re-start growing crops such as onions in mountainous Region Eight is yet to take off.

The Guyana Power and Light Ltd on Friday held its cultural extravaganza, under the theme ‘International Year of People of African Descent‘ at the Umana Yana.

The three ‘witnesses‘ held in connection with last Wednesday’s double murder at White Water Backdam, Konawaruk, remain in the custody of Linden Police who are continuing their search for answers to solve this brutal crime.