Guyana News

The historic Mocha Methodist Church is currently in a dilapidated state and as a result, members have decided to erect a new building beside it.

The final cost of constructing the Amaila hydropower plant will be known by next month, Sithe Global’s Senior Vice President Jim McGowan says.

According to Virgin Islands News Online (VINO), a Guyanese businessman who was found not guilty of murdering a wanted fugitive will be deported from the island today.

The National AIDS Committee (NAC) says the outcome document of the recently-concluded UN high-level meeting (HLM) on HIV-AIDS does not provide as comprehensive a road-map to “zero death, zero new infections and zero discrimination” as anticipated.

The Critchlow Labour College (CLC) partnered with the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to host a series of workshops for workers on Occupational Safety and Heath (OSH).

Government is currently making attempts to resuscitate the Morawhanna fish port complex in Region One—a project which never fulfilled its intended purpose since coming on stream in the 1980s.

Linden youths were the first in the country to benefit from a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) multimedia training session aimed at equipping the nation’s children to share their knowledge and experiences on issues affecting them.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar has again defended his active involvement in recent government engagements and outreaches saying that as general secretary of the ruling party he has a direct interest in the affairs of the government.

Seven-year-old Vijai Ramnauth, who along with his nine-year-old sister, was struck down by a speeding car at Cotton Tree West Coast Berbice, is in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Police need to be more thorough in their investigative work in order to secure more convictions, Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee said as he met residents of Annandale, East Coast Demerara recently.

Leslyn Baptiste, the eight-year-old student of the Agricola Primary School, who was struck down by a speeding car on June 16, was on Friday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Mangrove Action Committee will offer complimentary tours to parents and children during the August holidays which include a visit to its new visitor centre.

PASADENA, California, (Reuters) – Mexico won the  CONCACAF Gold Cup yesterday with a 4-2 victory over the United  States in a hugely entertaining final played in front of 93,000  fans.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez, not seen in public for two weeks, ended his unusual  silence with several Twitter messages on Friday, but said  nothing about his health after an operation in Cuba.

(WICB) Kingston, Jamaica– Barbadian right handed strokemaker Kirk Edwards has been named in the West Indies squad for the Second Digicel Test.

(Jamaica Observer) Investigators from the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT) are still processing the crime scene in Queens Way, St Andrew, where 66-year-old businessman Roderick ‘Bunny’ Francis was shot dead this morning.

The Ministry of Health says it has found that 53% of medicines available at private pharmacies in seven regions failed one or more of the quality assurance tests done.

Police early this morning found missing Unity, Mahaica resident Loretta Persaud, who has admitted to staging her own kidnapping.

According to Virgin Islands News Online (VINO), a Guyanese businessman who was found not guilty of murdering a wanted fugitive will be deported from the island tomorrow.

PULE ALAM, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – A suicide car  bomber killed at least 20 people, and possibly as many as 35, in  an attack at a hospital in a remote district of eastern  Afghanistan today that damaged its maternity ward,  officials said.