Guyana News

The Ministry of Agriculture is currently implementing a $30M Acoushi Ant Eradication Programme in Region Seven, and plans are in train to expand the programme to regions, One, Eight and Nine.

Eighteen disability organisations met at the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre to discuss civic rights, when the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities convened another voter education workshop recently.

The Guyana National Road Safety Council is appealing to all road users to be more responsible when using the roadways.

Leon Smart was yesterday sentenced to three months in prison for unlawfully assaulting another man.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) has announced the winners in the seventh and eight weeks of its Salute your Heroes ‘Text to Win’ competition.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A court in Mexico today sentenced a 14-year-old U.S.

While the PPP says indicted businessman Ed Ahmad made no contributions to its 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C government” he was one of the contact persons listed for an April 29 event in the US where the party’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar was introduced.

RABAT,  (Reuters) – At least 78 people were killed today when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a  mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the  military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The family of Amy Winehouse  gathered at a north London cemetery today to bid farewell  to their “angel”, three days after the troubled singer was found  dead at her home.

(Jamaica Observer) SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — The community of Junction in South East St Elizabeth is in shock following the shooting death of a 17-year-old girl close to her home last night.

BERNE, (Reuters) – FIFA are set to open a further  investigation into the meeting of Caribbean football officials  which resulted in former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin  Hammam being banned for life.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A financial institution has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay US$70,000 with interest to one of its customers who was given wrong advice by one of its employees to invest her money in the failed investment scheme Cash Plus Ltd.

(DWT) PARAMARIBO – The controversial photo in the history book “Wij en ons verleden” (We and our past) for the sixth grade of primary school in which a demonstrator hold a sign calling President Desi Bouterse a murderer should be removed.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Nearly half of the workers at Nickerie’s District Commissariat turn out to be involved in the big fraud case that has had the district in its grip for some time now.

(Barbados Nation) Cancer patients in need of radiation treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) are in limbo because the radiation machine is not working.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is making steady progress towards becoming the first country in the world to have free wireless access everywhere.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on  Monday called on divided congressional leaders to compromise  and break a deadlock over raising the U.S.

PORT LOUIS, (Reuters) – Six ministers, including the  finance minister, resigned from the Mauritius government today, local radio reported, throwing the Indian Ocean island  into political turmoil.

A two-year-old was killed and 11 others were injured yesterday, after a minibus and a truck collided head-on in Linden.

Government has tapped into the budget to fund solar panels for hinterland villages and is prepared to do the same for land demarcation exercises owing to slow disbursement of funds from the forests’ saving deal with Norway, President Bharrat Jagdeo told Amerindian leaders yesterday.