Guyana News

Sherwin Anthony Hyle who is accused of the May 1, 2008 murder of Joel Savory at Friendship was on Wednesday committed to stand trial at the High Court after a prima facie case was made out against him.

Three persons were admitted to hospital yesterday afternoon, following an accident on the Mahaicony railway line involving a police bus and a car.

An explosion of unknown origin yesterday almost destroyed a two-bedroom house at ‘A’ Field Sophia.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is scheduled to host a one-day forum today to address matters pertaining to the Green Economy, European Union/Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement and the National Insurance Scheme (NIS).

Over the past year, United Women for Special Children (UWSC) has donated in excess of $1.7 million to special needs schools and organizations, including offering a scholarship worth $90,000 to a differently-abled child.

Suriname Ambassador to Guyana Manorma Soeknandan has urged businesses in Berbice to explore closer ties with Nickerie.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – A suicide  attacker who appears to have concealed his explosives inside a  turban killed a senior cleric and at least four other people on  Thursday at a funeral service for the assassinated brother of  the Afghan president in southern Kandahar city.

A sales supervisor, accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $475,000 by means of a forged cheque, was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $200,000 by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Region Nine REO Ronald Harsawack recently presented a cheque valued $2,000,000 to Toshao of Masakenari Village, Paul Chekema to upgrade the village’s water distribution system.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that with the upcoming weekend, the Blood Bank is still at a critically low level on blood and donors are being asked to come forward.

Police on Wednesday stopped and searched a minibus at

Guyana stayed on top of regional squash by claiming another overall title in the Digicel Caribbean Areas Squash Association (CASA) Junior Championships today at the Georgetown Club Courts.

Roman Catholic priest Father Linus Wall has died in Scarborough, Canada.

Sacked Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) doctor Vishwamintra Persaud has been taken into police custody in West Berbice over allegations that he sexually molested a 13-year-old girl.

As Lethem remained without power at lunchtime today, a few dozen residents of the area joined members of the business community there this morning in an ongoing picketing exercise outside the offices of the Lethem Power Company.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Winston Dookeran says while he would soon be seeking parliamentary and Cabinet approvals to pay Clico policyholders with balances over TT$75,000 in form of a twenty-year bond, the Government has failed to effectively explain the offer.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs is a “toothless bulldog” who is only concerned about uplifting his image.

(Trinidad Express) “Is bullets like rain up inside of here, Mr Sandy.

PARAMARIBO – The New York-based international human rights’ organization “Human Rights Watch” is surprised by the anti homo-statements of BEP-Parliamentarian Ronnie Asabina and “hopes that the Surinamese government will strongly distance itself from these statements and will plead for tolerance of and non-discrimination against homosexuals.

The bodies of a man and his two children were yesterday discovered at a farm at Adventure, on the Essequibo Coast, following an apparent murder-suicide that left the community in a state of shock.