Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) – A Jamaican who was set to be deported from the UK slashed his throat soon after boarding a Virgin flight to Jamaica at Gatwick Airport.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court  ruled for Wal-Mart Stores Inc today in the largest  sex-discrimination lawsuit in history, saying class-action  status for female employees seeking billions of dollars had  been improperly granted.

LONDON (Reuters) – FIFA vice president Jack Warner has resigned and an investigation into corruption allegations against him has been dropped, world soccer’s governing body said today.

A Canadian national was shot yesterday after he scuffled with a bandit while jogging on the seawall.

A 14-year-old boy is believed to have drowned during an outing at a creek along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway yesterday.

A nine-year-old West Coast Berbice schoolgirl was killed and her brother seriously injured after they were hit by a speeding car this morning.

(Trinidad Express) Trade unionists yesterday laid down eight demands to the Government, as they committed to protest action over the next two months and a promise to shut down the country.

(Jamaica Observer) Over half of the country’s youths believe that their lives would be better if they lived overseas.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says that Barbados is making ground in establishing an air service agreement with China that will allow this country to tap into the 50 million Chinese who travel every year.

(Barbados Nation) Police are investigating the killing of a 31-year-old Gemswick, St Philip mother of three close to her home on Saturday in front of horrified witnesses.

(De Ware Tijd) ROTTERDAM – Suriname has called in the assistance of the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific group) for the full utilization of funds available from the European Union (EU).

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – On Saturday, R.N., who has worked for nearly 20 years as a purser for Surinam Airways/SLM, was caught red-handed trying to smuggle four kilos of cocaine on board the airline’s Airbus A340.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad  said today “saboteurs” were behind unrest against his rule  and that political accommodation could not be reached with  gunmen.

‘…the facts in this case disclose a horrendous account of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment which ground my decision for finding that there has been a violation of (the boy’s) human rights generally to be treated with dignity and respect as a child and as a person.

More than 300 former employees of the defunct Diamond Sugar Estate turned up to  uplift their severance benefits at the Diamond Secondary School  yesterday as emotions ran high on “the ending of an era” of sugar cultivation on the East Bank of Demerara estate.

An 87-year-old father of Lichfield, West Coast Berbice was terrorized and robbed around 3 am yesterday by three bandits who stole about $1.5M in cash, jewellery and cellular phones.

Former media personality Nerissa Pearson says she was repeatedly pushed and slapped to the face by a recently graduated Cadet Officer from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday morning and she has reported the matter to the police.

Fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-flat wooden and concrete house at King Street, East Canje around 11 am yesterday, leaving a family of six homeless.

Less than a day after he was reported missing, the body of a 51-year-old man was discovered under a wharf at Kingston, Georgetown on Saturday morning.

Gang rapes are not a regular occurrence in Guyana but very little is being done for the victims who are often forced to accept compensation to erase the shame and to make their own provisions to deal with the emotional scar that they are left with.