Guyana News

Karran Chooraman, 24, who was struck down and dragged some 20 feet just over a week ago, died yesterday morning.

A coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has launched a petition for a full disclosure of campaign financing as well as to have an equal number of male and female candidates on party slates, among other reforms for the upcoming polls.

Renowned artist Phillip Moore now spends most of his days in bed at his Lancaster, Corentyne home, where he is surrounded by his creations.

A court battle among the brothers of the S.A. Nabi and Sons Limited company ended in May when the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) restored a Guyana High Court judgment ruling, which had confirmed the appointment of one of the brothers’ sons as a director on the board.

Thirty youths, aged 8 to 11, last Friday completed a Heritage Awareness Programme facilitated by the National Trust of Guyana in collaboration with The Ministry of Culture.

Under the theme “Deaf Education Access Future” (DEAF), the sixth annual Deaf Awareness Week will be observed from Sunday, September 26, 2011 to Saturday October 1 2011.

Muslims who reside at Parfait Harmonie now have their own place of  worship, Masjid Al-Nur and Islamic Centre which was built by businessman Bobby Ramroop.

(LIAT) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, August 01, 2011 – LIAT wishes to advise that the tropical weather system now affecting the Eastern Caribbean has resulted in the cancellation and diversion of certain flights.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The House of Representatives  today approved a last-gasp deal to raise the U.S.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Emily formed near  the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles islands today, far from oil  and gas-production facilities in the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Ian Bell’s controversial “non  dismissal” during the second test between England and India  subverted the laws of the game and had nothing to do with the  Spirit of Cricket, former England captain Michael Atherton said  today.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Tim Bresnan bowled  England to a crushing 319-run victory over India in the second  test today with a test best of five for 48 as the world  number one side capitulated for 158 with a day to spare.

A boat on an excursion to Marshall Falls, Mazaruni River capsized after the propeller got entangled on a wire rope that was securing a dredge to shore leaving one man missing.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Six people have been killed and five others injured in two separate motor vehicle crashes in St.

PARAMARIBO – A “great campaign of our country” will be carried out as the “next large-scale activity that will also be a pillar of Our Suriname in Transformation.”

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Soon Suriname and Guyana will sign a Customs protocol to prevent smuggling and large-scale fraud with import duties.

Trinidad’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she was told that the cockpit door had to be cut away to free Fareed Dean, the pilot of the plane which crash-landed here on Saturday morning, the Trinidad Guardian reported in today’s edition.

Caribbean Airlines Chairman, George Nicholas 111 has told the Trinidad Guardian that the airline has given each of the passengers in Saturday’s horrific crash-landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri US$500 ($10o,000).

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite Saturday’s incident involving Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight BW 523 to Guyana, airline travellers scheduled to fly on the airline pressed on with their plans and maintained their bookings at the Piarco International Airport, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The passengers’ seats and other furnishings of CAL 523 were all intact despite last Saturday’s “crash” landing  in Guyana, says T&T’s Direct of Civil Aviation Ramesh Lutchmedial.