Guyana News

The rain did not spoil the festivities for the hundreds that gathered in the National Park to partake in Emancipation celebrations.

The Society Against Sexual Discrimination (SASOD) is inviting students of law and related fields to participate in a training workshop on human rights and equality law.

The Environmental Com-munity Health Organisation (ECHO) is finalising arrangements to start a recycling programme in 40 primary schools in Georgetown.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted a pensioner $20,000 bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with stealing bearings worth $89,400 from the Kei-Shars Gift Shop.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton remanded to prison a man accused of having in his possession an unlicensed gun and a quantity of ammunition, after he denied the charges when they were read to him in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Guyanese and West Indies batting star Ramnaresh Sarwan has vowed to win back his Test place after acknowledging that he nearly gave up the game eight months ago, according to a report today in The Royal Gazette Online of Bermuda.

A part-time minibus conductor was early this morning found dead in a trench near his home.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian authorities have  captured two leaders of a 20-ton-per-year cocaine operation  that sent drug-laden submarines to the world’s top drug  consumer, the United States, local police said today.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Ltd today said that there have been forty attacks on its cables in 90 days, the latest being this morning in Better Hope South, ECD.

(LIAT) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, August 2, 2011 – LIAT wishes to advise that due to the passage of Tropical Storm Emily services throughout its network have been severely disrupted.

Two employees of Reunion Manganese Incorporated  were this morning killed and at least two others injured after the truck they were in overturned at Main Four Road on the outskirts of Matthew’s Ridge, North West District.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A protester who threw a paper  plate of foam at Rupert Murdoch during a parliamentary hearing  into the News Corp phone-hacking scandal last month was  given a six-week jail sentence today.

(Jamaica Observer) Twenty-one-year-old Tiffany Williams, otherwise called ‘Nicky’, of Duncans Road in Waterford, St Catherine was last night killed by a gunman on Bellevue Road, Waterford.

(Trinidad Guardian) Works Minister Jack Warner says he is not being kept informed on developments regarding the incident involving Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 which broke into two on landing in Guyana.

(Trinidad Express) If the Government adheres to the demands of the trade union leaders without the benefit of prudent management then the entire country could be placed at risk as the gains made in the economy could be lost.

(Trinidad Express) Former works and transport minister Colm Imbert has said the authorities must move swiftly to determine what caused the Caribbean Airlines (CAL) aircraft to crash-land as this would affect the airline’s ratings and ability to fly freely into different countries.

Investigators will wrap up their on-site inspection of the Caribbean Airlines (CAL) jet that skidded off the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) within three or four days and the key `black box’ recorders are in Washington for assessment.

A pleasure trip to Marshall Falls, Mazaruni River turned into terror yesterday when the boat capsized after the propellers got entangled on a wire rope that was securing a dredge to shore, throwing the two dozen passengers into the rapids and leaving one man missing.

Pre-med student Arti Cameron set pulses racing to take top honours at the Miss Guyana World 2011 pageant on Sunday evening, which also saw three other queens being crowned.

Torrential rains have caused flooding and erosion across sections of Region 10, where homes in  Silver City and Blue Berry Hill, Linden are under water.