Guyana News

Amid a surge in fatal accidents, an East Coast Road Safety Steering Committee was yesterday set up at Lusignan.

Seminars on paediatric asthma and suicide were recently conducted by doctors of the non-profit organisation New York Guyana Mission (NYGM) at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Twenty-three young people from Plaisance, East Coast Demerara last Thursday graduated from a skills/vocational training course hosted under the Community Action Component (CAC) of the Citizens Security Programme (CSP).

Over 150 residents of Buxton over the weekend benefitted from dental care, eye screening, testing for blood pressure and glucose content and voluntary counseling and treatment services when the Ministry of Health and the Buxtonians 4 Life Group held an outreach at the community’s health centre.

A man is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot in the shoulder by a security guard attached to Noble House Seafoods on Saturday.

The first Rapid Impact Project (RIP) under the Community Action Component of the Citizens Security Programme (CSP) was commissioned at the Pattensen Multi-purpose Centre in B Field Sophia last Friday.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Miami police arrested Outkast  rapper and “Hey Ya” singer Big Boi today for possessing  ecstasy and other drugs that the performer’s lawyer later  characterized as “contraband.”

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – ABC today said it is  ending “Desperate Housewives” when the current, eighth season  wraps up in 2012, sending the popular ladies of Wisteria Lane  packing into TV history.

Bandits yesterday morning launched a bloody attack on a family that had just returned from the Timehri airport, injuring two men before escaping with two bags from a motor car that was about to turn into the family’s Middle Road, La Penitence home.

The police say they are conducting investigations into an armed robbery that occurred at about 1930h yesterday at Goed Fortuin, WBD, during which businessman Peter Sahadeo, 42 years, and his wife Nanda Sahadeo, 36 years, were attacked and robbed by four men armed with handguns.

The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 1330h yesterday at Noble House Seafoods Ltd Wharf, Eccles, EBD, during which a man was shot.

Report on Activities and Responses by CJIAC and related agencies immediately following the CAL Flight BW523 Accident   Overview At 0132 hours on 30th July 2011 Caribbean Airlines flight, BW523, Registration 9Y-PBM (Boeing 737-800), was involved in an accident at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

(Jamaica Observer) Two persons were killed and six others are nursing injuries they suffered after being shot by gunmen at the intersection of Tower Street and South Camp Road in Kingston last evening.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 hit St Lucia today followed by a number of aftershocks, the Trinidad-based Seismic Unit of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has reported.

LONDON, (Reuters) – London braced today for more  violence after some of the worst riots seen in the British  capital for years which politicians and police blamed on  criminal thugs but residents attributed to local tensions and  anger over hardship.

(Barbados Nation) An online telecommunications company is looking to take over the mobile market in Barbados by offering clients cheap rates, unlimited international calling, and free lifetime membership to the security forces.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The days of Laksmienarain Doebay as District Commissioner (DC) of Nickerie seem to be numbered.

(Barbados Nation) You will soon be able to log onto to the Internet to find information and communicate with the Royal Barbados Police Force.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – No concrete arrangements have been made between China and the Bouterse government yet regarding planned mega-projects, it appears from an exclusive interview DWT has had with Chinese Ambassador Yuan Nansheng.

(Barbados Nation) Don’t panic. That was the advice to Barbadians from Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin yesterday over their alarm about the recent spate of crimes, heightened by last Tuesday’s double murder of 79-year-old Arthur “Fred” Chaderton and his son-in-law Austrian-born Gerhart Metamara Stock, 44.