Guyana News

After serving for nearly 12 years as the country’s executive president, President Bharrat Jagdeo says that there are no “major” changes he would recommend to the post since the powers currently afforded allow whoever holds the position to be effective in office.

-delegates who snubbed election deemed to have abstainedRamsey Ali became the new president of the Guyana Cricket Board yesterday at the GCC pavilion amidst controversy and an unprecedented media shutout.

The Guyana Defence Force yesterday published the names and photographs of some 156 of its members as being Absent Without Leave (AWOL) and is seeking the public’s assistance in locating them.

A 17-year-old boy was yesterday afternoon crushed to death by a skidder while the machine was pulling logs along the UNAMCO trail at Kwakwani in Region 10.

Twenty-three-year-old Kara Lord sashayed and answered her way to the Miss Guyana Universe crown yesterday morning.

A 42-year old Port Kaituma resident was severely burnt about the body on Wednesday evening following an altercation with another man.

At age 12, Sateshwar Raghanandan of D’ Edward Ketting, West Bank Berbice behaves as though he is much younger and can barely walk on his own although he was born a normal child.

A man accused of having in his possession an unlicensed gun and ammunition at a mining camp was on Friday remanded to prison after making his appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A taxi driver accused of robbing his passenger at gunpoint was on Friday remanded to prison after making his appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Fifteen youths from Rasville, Roxanne Burnham Gardens  will be employed under the Ministry of Agriculture’s Community Enhancement Programme to clear their community’s drains and canals that have been neglected by the Mayor and City Council.

The recently-formed Linden Civic Society (LCS) has identified its shadow ministers for the main government sectors and has revealed that it intends to employ round-table discussions in dealing with issues, as its membership begins to grow.

The man who allegedly stabbed his wife after an argument on July 7 is to appear in the Leonora Magistrates’ Court today and his wife remains a patient at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A man accused of stealing his cousin’s car was on Friday admitted to bail in the sum of $250,000 after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Ministry of Education says 156,000 school uniform vouchers have been distributed to coastland students and the remaining 9,000 will be handed out when the second phase of the initiative starts today.

IMPACS (the CARICOM Implementation Agency  for Crime and Security) says that Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was misquoted in the Trinidad Express on July 5, 2011 in  its article that attributed the following statement to her: “CARICOM Heads ….have

Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Been has called on stakeholders in the aviation sector to maintain high levels of safety and security at the country’s airports.

APNU Presidential Candidate, Brigadier (ret’d) David Granger and Campaign Director, Joseph Harmon on Thursday met with the Rastafarian Council to determine if there was opportunity for them to work together.

APNU and PNCR Presidential Candidate David Granger presented Region 10’s top three performers with book vouchers that would be extended throughout their secondary school years at a simple ceremony hosted at the Egbert Benjamin Conference Centre in Linden.

Father Linus Wall, 92, is gravely ill in a Scarborough,

Ramsey Ali became the new president of the Guyana Cricket Board today at the GCC pavilion amidst controversy and an unprecedented media shutout.