Guyana News

When a newspaper arrives in Kurutuku, on the sporadic occasions it does, Solomon Lewis reads and explains to villagers eager to learn about anything that catches their eye.

The World Bank says that it is ready but has not yet been asked to release money for projects to be funded by payments from Guyana’s forest partnership with Norway.

Two women have been brutally killed under identical circumstances one year apart and though police have leads that the motive for the killings may have been connected to property disputes, this cannot be proved, so both cases are at a standstill.

Winners of the 2010 Guyana Prize for Literature will be announced at an awards ceremony to be held on September 1.

The Parliamentary Manage-ment Committee (PMC) has not met for more than a year but the government and the opposition both have to take blame for this PPP/C Chief Whip Gail Teixeira says.

With thousands of candidates who sat this year’s CSEC and CAPE examinations trying to access their results online on Thursday night, the high volume of cyber traffic caused the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) website to crash for a few hours.

Karen Kerr, the mother of four who was allegedly shot twice in the shoulder by her reputed husband early Friday morning, is still hospitalized but her condition is said to be improving.

The expected delay in the completion of the Amaila Falls access road will not impact on the overall schedule for the project, Sithe Global says.

Wanted man Dwayne Critchlow, who was on Friday shot by police, is claiming that he was shot without reason and knows nothing of the allegations against him.

Three persons were yesterday injured in separate road accidents, all escaping with minor injuries.

Telephone company Digicel yesterday said that it welcomes the government’s plan to break GT&T’s monopoly on the international gateway and promised lower rates on international calls once the requisite legislative changes are enforced.

AMES, Iowa, (Reuters) – Michele Bachmann won the  Iowa straw poll today in the first big test of the 2012  Republican presidential race, as Texas Governor Rick Perry  launched a White House bid that could reshape the race.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of Atlantic LNG’s shareholders, the French energy group GDF Suez, is in advanced exclusive talks to sell its ten per cent stake in the natural gas liquefaction facilities in Point Fortin to China’s sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, international wire services reported on Thursday.

(Jamaica Observer) The judge’s order for David Smith to pay US$55 million in restitution and forfeit a US$730,000 house he purchased in 2006 for his sister and brother-in-law, could give hope to investors in his failed ponzi scheme, Olint.

Digicel today welcomed government’s plan to break the monopoly of GT&T on the International gateway.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – England surged to  the top of the world rankings after crushing India by an innings  and 242 runs in the third test today to secure their sixth  consecutive series win.

The police say that at about 1900h last night as members of a mobile police patrol approached motor car HB 8230 which was parked along the roadway at No.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Franklin formed in  the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Bermuda today and was  moving over open seas where it posed no threat to land,  forecasters at the U.S.

(Barbados Nation) The crime wave has hit Haynesville, St James. The 44-year-old father of two was rushed to hospital, reportedly in a private vehicle, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

A fuel standoff between Ogle Airport Incorporated (OAI) and Air Services Limited (ASL) climaxed when a senior official of the airline rammed a fuel tanker through the padlocked airport gate on Thursday and the police are investigating the matter.