Guyana News

Fire destroyed the King Solomon’s building on Main Street early this morning and has temporarily halted operations at Travel Span airline services.

(Trinidad Express) Kenneth Valley was a selfless man who would give a stranger the shirt off his back, his son Kerwyn said yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) A British man who was involved in a fight with a female passenger onboard a Virgin Atlantic flight on Monday was slapped with J$150,000 (roughly £1,071) in fines after he pleaded guilty to the charges against him in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Seve Ballesteros, one of golf’s  greatest and most charismatic players, died today at the  age of 54 following a long battle with cancer, his family said.

Two gas station workers were shot and robbed last evening, while making a cash deposit a banking machine outside Banks DIH on Mandela Avenue.

A freshly-made ‘channa bomb’ was on Thursday night found in a male washroom near the immigration section at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA), triggering security concerns.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has unearthed a fraud in the personnel division at its Head Office operations at Ogle and has called in the police to investigate.

Up to last Saturday, Synergy Holdings Inc. had been paid US$3.8 million for the work done so far on the Amaila Falls access road project, and the company is in the process of finalising arrangements with local subcontractors to complete some aspects of the work, senior government engineer Walter Willis has disclosed.

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) last evening elected a new executive committee and vowed to pursue land rights concerns and insist on adequate consultations on carbon initiatives.

As of April 30, US$70.8M was disbursed from donors to Guyana to support the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and REDD+ efforts out of a total commitment of US$255.4M.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday issued a call for religious leaders to “do more” in child protection, saying that they are still to fully support the national programme although they are critical partners in ensuring change.

City Hall has found itself again at an impasse with contracted garbage collection companies, which have pulled their services following a dispute over payments.

Transparency International (TI) has said the composition of the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc.

Kilcoy, Corentyne cane harvester Tilackdharry “Chanu” Singh died on Thursday afternoon at the New Amsterdam Hospital (NAH), two days after he was reportedly beaten by a rural constable (RC).

Colin Jones, who allegedly escaped from custody after his arrest in connection with the Health Ministry arson, had the charge against him dismissed for want of prosecution by Magistrate Leslie Sobers at the Providence Magistrates’ Court.

Elorna Jarvis was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment after she was found guilty of the September 10, 2007 dangerous driving death of Hardat Deepan.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of Sonobia James, who was allegedly killed by her female partner Tiffany Clarke, commenced yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Robust economic growth in  Africa over the last decade has swelled the size of its middle  class to a third of the continent’s billion-strong population,  according to a report released yesterday.

For persons who are clueless as to what to get mom for Mother’s Day, restaurants are offering sumptuous treats.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. drone aircraft  attack that killed two midlevel al Qaeda militants in Yemen on  Thursday was targeting the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian  Peninsula, a U.S.-born