Guyana News

Heavy rains could hit Guyana within the next two days as the HydroMet Department of the Ministry of Agriculture monitors the development of a tropical wave located northwest of Guyana in the Caribbean Sea.

The body of Herstelling fisherman Lakeraj Mahadeo was yesterday afternoon pulled from the Demerara River on the West Bank of Demerara.

The ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic has reported that its Facebook page was hacked sometime yesterday morning.

Omeka Henry who was committed to stand trial five years ago for the murder of her partner, was yesterday granted $50,000 bail by Justice Winston Patterson when she made her first appearance facing the lesser charge of manslaughter.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday opened the Home Friendly Room at the Amerindian Hostel, in Princes Street.

The five children from Kaow Kaow, Bartica, who were suspected victims of food poisoning, were yesterday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Malini Baseer is now a patient of the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, following a stabbing on Tuesday night.

Traffic Chief Neil Semple is alarmed at the number of road deaths and has urged all road users to exercise caution on the roadways, on a recent edition of “Law Enforcement and You” hosted on NCN.

Three West Demerara schools have made a clean sweep of a competition to encourage tidier school compounds.

President of the Republic of Haiti Michel Martelly urged businessmen in the Caribbean Community to invest in Haiti to help create wealth for its development, even as he stated his intentions to pursue full integration in the CSM, in his address at the 32nd CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government.

BERNE, (Reuters) – Belize’s international  suspension has been provisionally lifted by FIFA and their  World Cup qualifier at home to Montserrat will go ahead but on  neutral territory, soccer’s governing body said yesterday.

The Rotary Club of Stabroek, Georgetown elected a new president and board of directors for the year 2011 to 2012 last Monday.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai and a team met with Region Nine residents to allow them an opportunity to voice their concerns about issues affecting their livelihoods during a recent outreach exercise to several villages.

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for two persons in relation to forgery and other matters.

On Wednesday July 06, 2011, police ranks conducted a narcotics eradication operation at Banakari Swamp Road, Soesdyke/

Almost six months after the much-vaunted One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative was launched the first 142 persons identified to benefit from the project are now being allowed to take the computers home.

Leader of Guyana’s People Partnership (GPP) Peter Ramsaroop says that the PPP/C’s lack of focus in its foreign policy has severely affected economic growth over the last five years.

SANTA FE, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi has become an even  more isolated player for Argentina at the Copa America than he  was at the 2010 World Cup, a forlorn figure missing the telling  passes of his club mates Xavi and Andres Iniesta.

Queen’s College (QC) emerged victorious from a rigorous debate with the Bishops’ High School in the final leg of the JOF Haynes Memorial Inter-Secondary Schools debating competition.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,  (Reuters) – A gunman killed  seven people, including two children, in two homes in western  Michigan on Thursday and then led police on a high-speed chase  before taking three hostages, authorities said.