Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – The News Corp phone hacking  probe claimed its second senior police scalp in less than 24  hours when the London force’s Assistant Commissioner John Yates  resigned today.

(Trinidad Guardian) A D’Abadie family is in mourning, after an early morning accident yesterday in Couva claimed the lives of two cousins and has left three passengers in critical condition at hospital.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – On Friday, the registration of all squatters in Paramaribo and Wanica was started at Sunny Point by Social Affairs and Housing Minister Alice Amafo.

(Barbados Nation) Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite says crime in Barbados is under control, and has castigated the critics, namely the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), for stating otherwise.

(Barbados Nation) The much anticipated announcement of a new Secretary General of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to be made this week.

Sacked doctor, Vishwamintra Persaud was refused bail when he appeared at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court today charged with sexually molesting a 13-year-old female.

A policeman who was at the scene of an early morning accident at Bartica was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bartica Hospital after he was run over by a speeding truck.

The Port Kaituma Hospital in Region One has been affected by a food shortage for the past two weeks and according to reports patients who have no relatives in the area are suffering.

The  62-year-old man who was struck down yesterday in Werk-en-Rust as he cycled to the market died this morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Professor Daizal Samad, Director of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) has been shaking up the academic and administrative structures at the campus and there is now greater community and student involvement.

A 41-year-old man was yesterday morning chopped after he turned off an electric stove on which a male relative was boiling water.

The seven ladies who are vying for the crown of Miss Guyana World 2011 had the opportunity to introduce themselves at the launch of the Pageant on Friday evening at the Roraima Duke Lodge.

Expansion works are well underway at the Celina Atlantic resort which sits to the north of the seawall next to the Kitty pump station.

The Third Round of political consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here and the Ministry of External Affairs of India was convened Friday at the ministry in Georgetown, and the two countries also utilized the opportunity to share ideas on new areas of cooperation.

The Georgetown Reading and Research Centre (GR&RC) hopes to provide the reading public with 100,000 titles in its `Great Book Sale of 2011’ which gets underway on Wednesday, July 20.

A batch of 236 youths from various parts of the country  graduated on Friday from the Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training Programme (YEST) after acquiring skills in several areas that would ensure they are marketable, a  Government Information Agency (GINA) press release stated.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Friday congratulated the local office of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agricul-ture (IICA) for its role here over the last year.

Minister of Finance Ashni Singh and Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday joined members of the Community Development Council (CDC) of Region Four at their Annual Conference at the Diamond Secondary School.

Thousands of teachers across the country will this month receive benefits under a multi-year agreement which was concluded between the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Government of Guyana.

Sydney Ifill can thank his son Anthony for securing him a place in the next round of the Courts Guyana Inc’s ‘All You Need for Your Life’ digital promotion.